OCCULT

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THE HIDDEN.
THE FORGOTTEN.
THE UNEXPLAINED.

We explore the forgotten knowledge, secret traditions and unexplained mysteries that still surround us.

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BABA HARIDAS TYAGI: TEMPTATIONS ARE NOT TEMPTING

Faith has become a way of life for Baba ji. Things simply happen. If he decides to travel, he finds co-travellers — not just for pilgrimages, but for globe-trotting. He has no documents, yet he has been to a dozen countries across five continents. He speaks many languages, and is famed for organising a rainbow gathering, where hippies  nirvana-seekers  from across the world congregated in the forest to celebrate their communion with God. A shared intention of peace, harmony, freedom, and respect bound them together, birds of the same flock. 

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IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Over the years, I have practiced stillness — I won't call it meditation, but it does involve ridding the mind of the clutter of thoughts. There is a bright emptiness in it. My experience is that idleness is not the opposite of a meaningful life, but its condition.


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JENSEN MARTIN IS COMMITTED TO MAKING THE KNOWN UNKNOWN KNOWN TO HIS COUNTRYMEN, AMERICANS.

Jensen Martin  is a lone traveller unto himself, and that has taken him to places across the globe.  He's sure-footed on the path of uncertainty; spiritual journeys are amorphous, and yet they give him something concrete — a direction.
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THE PAST BECKONED ME IN THE PRESENT

I was hosted in a commune in Tübingen by a friend. There a bust of a long dead soldier stirred my subconscious. The experience not just stayed with me in the last ten years or so, and it visits me often as a nightmare.
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THE GHOST OF NICHOLAS ROERICH

Perhaps a room is not a mere witness. It has memory.
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