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I like the Quakers, fine people in my experience. I enjoy and find value in their silent meetings too. Here and there I have come across articles about Hinduism and I want to learn more. I read a little about Advaita Vedanta a while back. There is much to like there. I have watched several...

Yes, that has been my experience. I can't say that I have studied the subject, but I have spent a lot of time in places that were popular with 'new age types.' Nothing that I saw or heard made me consider them a movement. I never met two with the same belief. It was as Wil wrote, "every...

There is little on the internet and some does not really capture what I experienced. The performer was Madge Bray who does have some material on youtube. There is this piece from Ireland, which reminds me of the evening with Madge.

Thank you JG, this is one of my favourite subjects. My list is big but for a taste I will mention medieval cathedrals, eastern orthodox art, Sufi poetry and depictions of the Green Man. A few years ago, I was on a workshop in Scotland. A local woman had made a study of keening as was once...

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I once had a good friend who loved nothing more than the cut and thrust of debate. His knowledge was encyclopedic and his debating skills were razor-sharp. I saw him win many arguments but oddly nobody seemed to change their opinion. Emotions have a bigger role in choice than we might think.

I chose my beliefs because they made sense to me. I did not choose the process by which things do make sense to me. Choice is such a slippery word sometimes.

Well said, that is my attitude too. I will never dismiss another faith unless I am sufficiently qualified to do so.

They were a political group, quite well known in th 70's. Vanessa Redgrave was there most famous member. Once you had bought their paper, they could be difficult to shake off. Rather like the Alan Ford film clip.

Reminds me of the WRP, do you remember them?

Bob Hoskins was good, but this guy is the real deal for sure.

Yes indeed and that I believe is the important point. Britain had Alf Garnet, the U.S. had Archie Bunker and Australia had Sir Les. I am, like Alf Garnet, an East Londoner. There were many Alfs around during my childhood and teens. My own step-father was very much an Alf. T.V. shows like these...

This I believe was also the third of Inayat Khan's "Ten Sufi Thoughts" "There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader." (Wikipedia)

Thank you @RJM your post was most informative. Obviously I have some knowledge of the parables, but you have taken this to another level, one that I had not previously considered. The matter of a 'Christian jurisprudence' is fascinating and would make a great thread.

I was so sad to read this. Dame Edna and Sir Les were masterpieces of the performer's art. I liked nothing more than to watch them in the company of my late grandmother. She was an innocent old soul and she loved Dame Edna. She would scowl furiously at Sir Les and always say, "I don't know why...

Having just found the thread I have done little more than skim. I saw nothing to cause any offence though. I first came across the term "spiritual map" many years ago, in a book on meditation. I was fascinated by the term but unable to find out more. This was pre-google. Finding the thread has...

A very good question. I did not consider myself to have a religious belief until my early fifties. As far as I can tell, my morality was unchanged by this. I cannot imagine adopting a faith that would compromise this. I owe my morality to my upbringing in general and my grandparents in...

Somehow I managed to miss this thread until today. What a shame that it just seemed to die out. @Cino did you continue with the sutra?

And not just Rene Guernon. A few years back, on a certain rival forum, any mention of Theosophy would get their Buddhists going for your throat. Online Buddhists can be much more vicious than their real-life counterparts.