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There is a vantage point at the end of time and it’s called deja vu. From this omniscient vantage point, you survey at once all the happenings which are disguised by time’s slow march. This French phrase, deja vu, which translates to ‘already seen’, has become our best way of describing that very peculiar phenomena.

The experience of deja vu can sometimes leave us with an eerie and otherworldly feeling. But the phrase deja vu itself deserves its place in global...

Perhaps, but here’s a thought—you don’t have to believe in such philosophies as yoga, energy bodies or third eyes to benefit from what chakras have to offer.

There’s another way of looking at chakras which can help even the staunchest atheist or the uncommitted agnostic benefit from what they have to offer.

Here’s the crux, we could look at chakras more as a bunch of psychological archetypes rather than metaphysical structures. From that...

So get out of your own way and take a step back to enjoy your creations this Christmas.

It’s not that you don’t know to do that. Far from it. But if you’re anything like me, you do forget to do it until someone or something reminds you. That’s what this is. A reminder. It’s the first part of the ultimate Christmas present—and for good reason too as you’ll discover.

This holiday season is as good a time as any to take stock of all the moments,...

As a follow-up to my previous blog, the truth about karma—which placed karma away from punishment into the realm of parasympathetic response, it’s important to now similarly place reincarnation.

Reincarnation and karma are so intrinsically linked in the religious paradigm. In that worldview, reincarnation is directly driven by karma. That is, we are forced to reincarnate again and again until we have cleared all our Karma, which given most of our collective and individual actions in life, is...

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The Philosophers Stone, also known as the Emerald Tablet or the Smaragdine tablet is a mysterious piece of ancient text which was found in a vault below a statue of Hermes in Tyana. It was reported to be in the hands of an ancient skelet...

Karma, or the law of cause and effect, is perhaps one of the best-known concepts from the Buddhist repertoire, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. The general take on Karma is of self-created retribution—reaping all the things we have sown in life. There’s also the idea that as individuals and as a group, we have something of a ‘karmic cache’, whereby we are bound to a cycle of life and death, living in suffering until we have reaped all that we have collectively sown.

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“Karma, or the law of cause and effect, is perhaps one of the best-known concepts from the Buddhist repertoire, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. The general take on Karma is of self-created retribution—reaping all the things we have sown in life. There’s also the idea that as individuals and as a group, we have something of a ‘karmic cache’, whereby we are bound to a cycle of life and death, living in suffering until we have reaped all that we have collectively sown…” – Read more...

The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara was the first book I read to completion—strange, I know. It opened my eyes to a world beyond my own—a world where people traveled for the sake of adventure. In the end Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend had a goal of reaching a leper colony, but on the way they had immense fun. There was adventure, there was mischief and there was love. But there were also acute observations of life—of people, of culture, of beliefs and of themselves as human beings.

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I read the motorcycle diaries and loved it completely. It was the first book I read to completion. It opened my eyes to a world beyond my own—a world where people traveled for the sake of adventure. In the end Ernesto and his friend had a goal of reaching a leper colony, but on the way, they had immense fun. There was adventure, there was mischief and there was love. But there were also acute observations of life—of people, of culture, of beliefs and of themselves.

This struck a silent chord in me. I hav...

One foot in front of the other, and breathe. That, is all the body can muster at nearly 18000ft. And after the feasting senses have gorged and began to burst at the seams, they too become numbed to the vista of the Annapurna circuit. What remains is the mantra one foot in front of the other, and breathe.

The air is cold and scant, but it’s noticeably fresh, with all the heaviness taken out of it. The lungs struggle with inhalation, taking in what they can...