Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Dalai Lama on Karma

The Dalai Lama on Karma and How To Get Some Of The Good Stuff

Here's a quote on the importance of action from His Holiness:

Some people misunderstand the concept of karma. They take the Buddha's doctrine of the law of causality to mean that all is predetermined, that there is nothing the individual can do. This is a total misunderstanding. The very term karma or action is a term of active force, which indicates that future events are within your hands. Since action is a phenomenon that is committed by a person, a living being, it is within your own hands whether or not you engage in actions.
The Dalai Lama's "Instructions For Life" lists out 20 ways to "get good karma":
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. 
3. Follow the three R’s:
- Respect for self
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions

 http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/dalai-lama-karma-and-how-get-some-good-stuff

Saturday, August 20, 2011

radio show about Spiritualism and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Now available to listen to and download on Richard Glover's Drive show on 702 ABC Radio

Although the speaker sounds sceptical, there is  some good historical information about Arthur's visit to Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

"Let's get physical ... or did we?" & Arthur Conan Doyle

## Important : Today at approx 5pm onwards on 702 ABC Sydney is a radio program about the great Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his visit in 1920/21 to Australia to give talks on Spiritualism .

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"Let's get physical ... or did we?"

 Last night, I either witnessed a remarkable display of physical mediumship by David Thompson, a Brit who now resides in Australia and who claims to produce full-form materialisations, or a blatant deception that is succeeding in fooling many otherwise sensible people. So which was it?

The only way to make up one's mind in such a situation Рin which the 40-plus people attending this s̩ance at Jenny's Sanctuary in Oxfordshire were literally in the dark Рis to examine both scenarios and ask which, logically, makes the most sense. That's what I'm about to do, in the hope that the views of visitors to this Blog may also contribute some useful insight

READ THE FULL STORY AT ROY STEMMAN'S PARANORMAL REVIEW.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Scientists who investigated the paranormal

2. Respected scientists who investigated

“I am absolutely convinced of the fact that those who once lived on earth can and do communicate with us. It is hardly possible to convey to the inexperienced an adequate idea of the strength and cumulative force of the evidence.”
Sir William Barrett F.R.S.
Sir Oliver Lodge
“I tell you we do persist. Communication is possible. I have proved that the people who communicate are who and what they say they are. The conclusion is that survival is scientifically proved by scientific investigation.”
Sir Oliver Lodge F.R.S.
“It is quite true that a connection has been set up between this world and the next.”
Sir William Crookes F.R.S.
“I have been talking with my (dead) father, my brother, my uncles... Whatever supernormal powers we may be pleased to attribute to (the medium) Mrs. Piper's secondary personalities, it would be difficult to make me believe that these secondary personalities could have thus completely reconstituted the mental personality of my dead relatives...”
Professor Hyslop Professor of Logic at Columbia University.
“I am absolutely convinced of the fact that those who once lived on earth can and do communicate with us. It is hardly possible to convey to the inexperienced an adequate idea of the strength and cumulative force of the evidence.”
Sir William Barrett F.R.S.
“I tell you we do persist. Communication is possible. I have proved that the people who communicate are who and what they say they are. The conclusion is that survival is scientifically proved by scientific investigation.”
Sir Oliver Lodge F.R.S.
“It is quite true that a connection has been set up between this world and the next.”
Sir William Crookes F.R.S.
“I have been talking with my (dead) father, my brother, my uncles... Whatever supernormal powers we may be pleased to attribute to (the medium) Mrs. Piper's secondary personalities, it would be difficult to make me believe that these secondary personalities could have thus completely reconstituted the mental personality of my dead relatives...”
Professor Hyslop Professor of Logic at Columbia University. 
 read more at VICTOR ZAMMIT

Friday, August 12, 2011

Not to be Missed : Radio Show with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Conan Doyle
Richard Glover (702 ABC Sydney)
Listeners to the 702 ABC Sydney will have an opportunity to hear a program next Wednesday 17th August about Arthur Conan Doyle and his visit to Australia in 1920/21 and his involvement in Spiritualism whilst here.

The broadcast will be on Richard Glover's Drive program at around 5.30pm and promises to be fascinating.

The segment is called Self Improvement Wednesdays and the audio is usually available on their website the following day.

Go to the radio station's website here.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

The History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1921 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the famous Sherlock Holmes books , toured Australia giving talks on Spiritualism of which he was a devotee.

He gave his farewell speech at the Enmore Spiritualist Church after attending a service there.

The Gutenberg Project has a free e-book by Sir Arthur :
The History of Spiritualism Vol II (1926)
which can be downloaded for free here:
 
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301061.txt 
"THE CAREER OF EUSAPIA PALLADINO The mediumship of Eusapia Palladino marks an important stage in the history of psychical research, because she was the first medium for physical phenomena to be examined by a large number of eminent men of science. The chief manifestations that occurred with her were the movement of objects without contact, the levitation of a table and other objects, the levitation of the medium, the appearance of materialized hands and faces, lights, and the playing of musical instruments without human contact. All these phenomena took place, as we have seen, at a much earlier date with the medium D. D. Home, but when Sir William Crookes invited his scientific brethren to come and examine them they declined. Now for the first time these strange facts were the subject of prolonged investigation by men of European reputation. Needless to say, these experimenters were at first sceptical in the highest degree, and so-called "tests" (those often silly precautions which may defeat the very object aimed at) were the order of the day. No medium in the whole world has been more rigidly tested than this one, and since she was able to convince the vast majority of her sitters, it is clear that her mediumship was of no ordinary type. It is little use pointing out that no psychic researcher should be admitted to the seance room without at least some elementary knowledge of the complexities of mediumship and the right conditions for its unfoldment, or without, for instance, an understanding of the basic truth that it is not the medium alone, but the sitters equally, who are factors in the success of the experiment. Not one scientific man in a thousand recognizes this, and the fact that Eusapia triumphed in spite of such a tremendous handicap is an eloquent tribute to her powers."
 

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