Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • spouse moulding

    The Dipti Naval of Shrimaan Shrimati who learns how to drink to please her spouse, or the Vinod Mehra who looks at his spouse with disdain because she has “old fashioned values” seem so far, these days  both the spouses seem to focus on insisting that the spouse adapt to suit them. I do not…

  • Parental fears—breaking family ties that bind.

    When I went to get a past life regression done, no matter what I did I could not go into a past life, all that I could see was darkness, and experience tremendous fear.  Third time round when that happened,  I was training under Dr.Yuvraj Kapadia of EKAA,(http://ekaa.co.in} and guess what, the familiar black, the…

  • Seven Billion Dreams One Planet….

    Seven Billion Dreams One Planet…. Consume with care….World environment day June 5th. This is the theme for the this years environment drive. The well being of humanity, the environment and the functioning of the economy, ultimately depends on  how responsibly we manage the planets natural resources , yet, we seem to be consuming far more…

  • Vesaka

    Vesaka or Wesaka, better known as Buddha Purnima was celebrated in India on the 4th of May; some countries celebrate it on June 1st. This informally called Buddha Jayanthi or the birthday of Buddha, however this is the day of that commemorates the birth, enlightenment and the death of Gautama Buddha in the Theravada tradition.…

  • Compulsive apologies,

    Compulsive apologies,

    Remember Uraih Heep from David Copperfield how he and his mother kept apologizing and mother constantly apoligized and affirmed their humbleness and god knows what.  Somewhere this scepticism towards people who declare their humbleness and constantly apologize stayed with me, I concluded that “ati vinayam durtalakshanam”  until I regressed one client to deal with some…

  • Family Meditation.—a life long gift.

    Family Meditation.—a life long gift. Families that eat together stay together is something that we have all heard. Here is another one that I read, a family that meditates together grows together. Coming to think of it, many families have the tradition of evening prayers together, or morning prayers together, I don’t mean of the…

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