Spiritual Journeys

How Yoga Helped Me Gain Self-Confidence, Experienced yoga enthusiasts and yogis all over claim this Hindu philosophy is extremely beneficial to our...

About Indian spiritual Mythology by Julian Millane are short explanatory articles about Indian spiritual mythology and history, hard to separate...

Living, as we do, in a time of unbelief, an ‘unbelievable time’, heresy is scarcely an issue. However, less than a dozen generations ago ‘witches’ were still being burnt for heresy, sometimes by the dozen, although frequently their crime was...

It has been written in many esoteric readings that the journey to greater enlightenment for the human has often been accompanied by a sense of loss, a stripping of perceived reality, a very challenging journey/quest whereby the ego undergoes a...

Love is where you are not. It would bomb as a pick up line, but it’s a concept of love worth pondering. They are the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a spiritual teacher who travelled the world in the twentieth century extolling the merits of...

I spent much of 1988 and 1989 at the Osho Commune in Pune India. I spent a lot of time meditating, sitting in discourse with Osho, sometimes up to 5 hours a day, a massive stretch for any seasoned meditator, least of all someone generally as...

Sandra Kimball discovers that after drinking tea, there is nowhere to go but home. Acting naturally, gracefully and spontaneously in whatever task one performs is at the core of training in traditional Japanese...

Byron Bay is such a spiritual supermarket, with all kinds of people offering truth as an experience, a commodity. “Come and sit in truth”, “Discover the truth of your being”, “Know the truth”, or “Learn how to live your truth”...

Apart from her greetings and salutations, the first sentences Sofia Diaz spoke made almost no sense. I felt uncomfortable and out of my depth. Nothing within me seemed to be receiving the message she was delivering and as I scanned my fellow...

The Dreaming Festival, held at the Queensland Folk Federation’s permanent site about an hour northeast from Brisbane, is Australia’s international Indigenous festival. Held over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June each year, it is a...