A day or two ago, it occurred to me that we live in a self-built prison of ideas, beliefs and concepts. The world is as we feel and see it. Today, I received a great email showcasing a similar view: an article - "The Doors of Perception" by Tim O'Shea. In it, Tim declares that "we are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated." "It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public con...

I was reading Sri Aurobindo's Savitri- the epic poem running some  9000 lines over almost 875 pages. This magnum opus can hardly be fathomed or completely read through in the life time of ordinary mortal like me. However, I literally stumbled over this page today  and read what the Sage had seen in his seer vision (ref: Jaipur blast). I quote a few lines  from those pages: Quote from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, Book Seven, Canto Two, P.481-482   Man’s lower nature hides theseawful guests, Their vast contagion gripssometimes man’s world, An awful insurgence overpowersman’s soul. In house and house this uprising grows; Hell’s companies are loosed todo this work, Into the earth- ways they break-out fromal...

I had an interesting insight the other day that I'd sort of known for several years but I just 'got' it at a deeper level. And it all came about as I was due to go out and spend the day fronting a stand at an event at Olympia. I'd promised to help an event organiser company and strut a little of my Tarot stuff - in other words I'd offer to do little bite size readings for people as they came to his stand. Makes it memorable and interesting and I wanted to do my bit. Anyway, before I left my home I realised that I had one horribly bloodshot eye - seriously bloodshot. My mood went down. I wondered how could I entertain, be psychic, smile and be happy looking like someone had poked something very sharp in my vulnerable eye? A moment o...