A new book by Dhyan Tarpan, subtitled, Footnotes of a Journey Across Himalayas, translated from Malayalam by Sreeja Raman (with presentation video)
Tarpan’s thoughts on the subject of smell, and an excerpt from the chapter titled, Horse Dung and History of Smell from his recently published book, The Crows of Kedarnath
New research proposes that consciousness works like a mathematical mirror of “nothingness,” offering a universal framework for understanding both human and artificial intelligence – by Sanjiva
This month’s planet transits discussed by Marga; “June promises to bring us both bold moments of expression and quieter periods for rest, integration, and reflection.”
Short reviews of books by Mollie Moran, Ann Hood, Bill Bryson, Eva Petulengro, Lisa Wingate, Lucy Cooke, Christine Kenneally, Alexander McCall Smith
“Although they were blind, they started finding that this man walks in a different way, talks in a different way, knows things that they don’t know. He says, ‘Now it is sunrise.’ He says, ‘Now the whole sky is full of stars’ – and those blind eyes could not see any star.”
“What calamity has happened to smell? There seems to be no reason why smell has been so suppressed. No culture anywhere has consciously suppressed it but it has become suppressed.”
A letter from Ma Divyam Ashna to Keerti who ran the retreat at Osho Nisarga; “While conflict raged in the outside world, we turned inward. We sat in silence. We meditated. We watched. And we healed.”
This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho from the darshan diary, Zorba the Buddha. “Life is a divine continuum. It has no beginning, and no end. It is forever and forever.”
Christo remembers… and says, “India has always remained in my heart and is forever my spiritual home.”
“When you are in a kind of rage you become murderers or you become suicidal; when you are in a kind of gratitude you write a song or you paint a picture – you do something creative,” states Osho
Osho speaks on the topic of ‘Perfume’; “Each sense has two possibilities: if the energy falls …downwards, then it is sexual; if the energy rises upwards, then it is spiritual.”