Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Releasing guilt

    Permission to forgive ourselves At the Landmark forum, we come across lot of stuff. But usually what we are dealing with is grudges not let gone, and wrongs we have not forgiven.  Both wrongs done to us, and we have done to others, still worse is our inability to forgive ourselves. So many of us…

  • Prayer and meditation.

    Prayer and Meditation. Many a times I have wondered what is the difference between prayer and meditation. After all both offered a connect with the divine.  I out  started observing myself, the words I used, the way I thought and felt during prayer I realized I used language to express myself, my inner most thoughts…

  • The Social Media The Connect and The Challenge

    The Social Media The Connect and The Challenge

    My association with the social media began when I was in isolation during my treatment, my only contact with the outside world was Facebook, and it kept me constant contact with my family. Even before we look at mobile vs. web, my generation approaching 50 would have more fundamental question that really understands what the…

  • Recognizing happiness

    Recognizing Happiness, My little cousin Rohini, had seen the television coke advertisement and her concept of enjoy became opening the coke bottle and drinking it. Not sipping it through a straw mind you but guzzling the bottle down. Enjoyment Happiness, would this not mean different things to different people? The journey of personal growth particularly…

  • Barkuru –Betaala-Vikramaditya

    The Kondeshwara swamy gardi at Barkuru, finds its link to the legendary throne of Vikramaditya. Once upon time lived a king Vikramaditya., we have all heard this line and the stories featuring him. The Vetala Panchvimshati and the Simhasana Dwatrimshika. These stories have found their way in various versions of  regional and Sanskrit literature. The…

  • The gift of this journey

    “Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.” ― Jim Morrison We were practising age regression in our hypnotherapy class, it was quite interesting. Many of our batch mates went into foetal stages. Then came a watsap message that was a conversation between two foetuses about life after…

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