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Investing time and emotional energy in safeguarding connections 

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Do we really control our lives, no matter how much we are constrained by circumstances, we must make decisions about how to live as life is simply not something that happens to us, we must lead it. One crucial decision regard to finding a partner, perhaps marry and have children, make friends and invest time and emotional energy in maintaining connections. Most of us form such connections without thinking much about it, as love is blind, and attaching ourselves to others come at a cost. This only diminishes our autonomy, but even make us vulnerable. English Poet Laureate Alfred Lord … Continue reading Investing time and emotional energy in safeguarding connections 

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Complexities of Hinduism

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One of India’s most accomplished historian makes a vital intervention, about Hinduism that begins with a maharaja’s cow sounds, reptiles with spices, mystery and backward traditions. When Europeans missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism as they saw it, was a pagan mess a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But soon it became clear that Hindu idolatry was far more layered and complex than European stereotypes allowed, surprisingly even sharing certain impulses with Christianity.  Manu … Continue reading Complexities of Hinduism

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How can be broaden our minds

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Academic philosopher, Simon Critchley explores why Mysticism is about existential ecstasy – an experience of heightening one’s senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness and provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliers. Mystical experiences offers us a practical way to open out thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Whether so-called “mystical” experiences are felt to be religious, spiritual aesthetic or something else, people have been trying to report, describe, and make sense of this strange kind of ecstasy for a thousand … Continue reading How can be broaden our minds

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Death is on the prowl

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Samsara is  a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes were only a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in.  With his rakish charm, Oxford education, and perfect hair, he had it all, until he left his job under mysterious circumstances, It was super hectic, and Ro decides it’s time for some much-needed R&R. At Samsara he is free to explore the innumerable yoga classes to rebalance their privileged existence, wellness treatments and guided-meditation session on offer alongside the rest of the exclusive hotel’s guests. Until one of the guests -gorgeous, charismatic, well-connected, like … Continue reading Death is on the prowl