Thursday11 Jan 05:58 PM
According to Hindu mythology, gods and demons fought a celestial war over a pitcher of divine nectar. Allahabad is one of the four towns where drops of nectar fell during the battle. But many long-time residents of Allahabad say the river water is getting increasingly polluted and is no longer fit for a dip. -[SA]
Tue 23 Jan
2007
02:11 PM
"As by one lump of clay all that is made of clay is known, the modification i.e., the effect being a name merely which has its origin in speech, while the truth is that it is clay merely."(Chh. Up. VI-14)...
Tue 23 Jan
2007
11:03 AM
Today's New York Times features a piece about the neuroscience and psychology of "magical thinking." The surprising news is that almost all of us prescribe to it. We might bestow an odd coincidence with a special importance— "It's a...
Mon 22 Jan
2007
Fri 19 Jan
2007
03:31 PM
"This is a moving temple, like a mobile phone."Kanhaiya Lal Maharaj quoted by Reuters, India The new moon night, or Mauni Amavasya, is celebrated today (Friday) —the most auspicious day in this six-week-long Hindu bathing festival known as Ardh...
Thu 18 Jan
2007
03:46 PM
Peter Whitehead's Wholly Communion (1965) 33 minutesFrom the UBUWEB archives The event began with Ginsberg chanting and playing finger cymbals, performing a Hindu mantra which was described, in a review published the following day by The Times newspaper, as...
Wed 17 Jan
2007
01:41 PM
As you may have heard or read (NYT|LAT|BB) Swamini Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda died last week. She was a spiritual being who left us within an amazing, incredibly unique, uplifting body of musical recordings. (And I speak mainly of her...
Fri 12 Jan
2007
10:44 AM
The blogosphere exploded yesterday with revelatory discord as the news begain to spread: Robert Anton Wilson has departed. Rest yee in the great Lord Yama's grace. He was an absolutely instrumental figure in my formative years. His books bent...
Thu 11 Jan
2007
01:02 PM
I despair at the idea that we now want to turn a 5,000-year-old spiritual system, seen in the words of the founder of Viniyoga, TKV Desikachar (an Indian guru who is still teaching today) as "the discipline of controlling the...
Tue 09 Jan
2007
09:15 AM
Leave it to New York Magazine to breath some new, fecund life into some old yoga dirt. But here it is....
Thu 21 Dec
2006
12:08 PM
This video gem appears to be from the Woodstock movie. And I think that the yoga teacher is Tom Law. Anyhow Mr. Law was obviously and earnestly trying to share his understanding of yoga, but grossly misrepresents some ideas, as...
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