By S D Anugyan
Chapter 1 from Gopal’s (Bahram Moteraassed Spitama) new book, From Darkness Into Light: Why Stay in the Shadow When We Are Meant to Shine in the Light?
Starting a new series by Srajan, Seekers from the Low Lands: Geert Groote, Thomas a Kempis and various 14th century Christian communities in the Netherlands
Nirbija reflects on humanity’s self-destructive course – driven by war and militarisation – and contrasts it with visionary, peaceful communities such as Rajneeshpuram and Auroville
Sanjiva Kyosan shows a working example of the framework he has developed, spiegelimspiegel, asking it this vital question – and compares it to ChatGPT’s answer
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
Surendra’s photographs from his visit to a Shinto shrine on Cape Hino in Japan (Part 4 of the series)
“Without the rather clumsy revolution we went through back then, this new and necessary and beautiful higher revolution would not have been able to happen,” writes Madhuri in this essay
Last article in Shanti’s series, where he quotes under the section, Fragrances of human flowering, personalities from various fields
In Part 18 of his series, Shanti quotes under the section, Fragrances of human flowering, from more mystics
This whole Part 17 of Shanti’s series, subtitled Fragrances of human flowering, is dedicated to the Persian poet and mystic Hafiz
Part 16 of Shanti’s series quotes these scientists: Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Galileo Galilei, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Camille Flammarion
Nityaprem reports on and assesses an experiment; “If people choose to learn about Osho from Chat AI they may well get a much less biased view than if they read old lifestyle magazine articles…”
In Part 15 of Shanti’s series: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Ruth St. Denis, Dalai Lama
For Part 14 of his series, Shanti’s invited to speak: Walt Whitman, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu
In part 13, Shanti lets the mystics speak: Gautama Buddha, Dōgen Zenji, Hakuin Ekaku, Kabir and Ramakrishna
In part 12, Shanti lets artists and poets speak: Michelangelo, Robert Frost, Rabindranath Tagore, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Miguel de Cervantes, Gertrude Stein, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Maria Angelou, Sappho
In Part 11 of his series, Shanti calculated costs and savings when switching to an efficient and renewables energy system using our present defense budgets
Divakar (Marc Itzler) writes, “Society has become more sensitive and more discerning. We now ask more of ourselves. We demand a higher standard of self-awareness, of values, of behaviour.”
In Part 10 of the series, Humans Are Still Young, Shanti discusses the size of global military spending and the concept of nations
In Part 9 of his series, Shanti explores the socio-economic and earth-system trends of the new geological epoch called Anthropocene
Part 8 of Shanti’s series: “The Holocene has seen many of us creating… some of us have flowered as caretakers… in scientific research, on the path of devotion, or exploring beyond the frontiers of the known.”
In Part 7 Shanti writes, “We may have shown our ugliest face to the mirror, to others and to life on the planet, but we have also expressed our potential.“
In Part 6 Shanti writes, “The next step in the development of human societies… cannot be other than One World and a World Administration. “
In Part 5 of Shanti’s series, we travel through the history of humankind, from family groups, to tribes, chiefdoms and states, kept together by organized religions
In the next installment (Part 4) of Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we meet the first homo sapiens
In Shanti’s new series, Humans Are Still Young, we travel through the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene Epochs (Part 3)
The start of a new series by Shanti, titled Humans Are Still Young. “Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star,” says Brian Cox in Wonders of the Universe.
An essay by S D Anugyan. “With astrology I have moved through near-wholesale acceptance at the beginning… to a letting go of it in favour of the accepted science of astronomy; and finally to an interesting hybrid of the two, where I practise a certain detachment in favour of observation.”
Samudro examines Osho’s 92nd Birthday and the recent events in Osho World in the light of Numerology and Astrology. He adds, “It’s time for a renewal of Osho’s world.”
Upchara remembers Castaneda’s 4th stumbling block on our journey: old age! “…that had me very perplexed!”
Ponderings by Punya with plenty of input from Madhuri; “Let the original inspiration that led you to write your book carry you through the inevitable labour pains of producing it.”
Shanti, excited about the prospect of having an observatory for gravitational waves built right under his mobile home, explains the implications of it.