Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

Cute stuff is pretty, because that’s just what it is.

I got ‘Goddesses of the celestial gallery’ for my birthday (2010). It was quite a chore to take it home: it’s almost as tall as this desk! (aka Poster size)

Romio Shrestha portrays the main Tibetan Buddhist Goddesses (and a few Hindu ones) in dazzli…

De spijzen uit India zijn al eeuwen een verrijking voor de Nederlandse keuken. De laatste decennia zijn ook de recepten uit landen als India, Indonesie en China populair. Ik heb drie kookboeken geselecteerd die je helpen de Indiase keuken in huis te…

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (April 23, 1879 – August 5, 1940) was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt.

Born in London, at age 16 he ran away from home and began an odyssey in India, Africa, and other pa…

Real science is always hard to summarize. This book by Ioan Couliano is a book like that. I read the whole thing, but to be honest the most fascinating parts were the introduction and the conclusion. The rest helped flesh it out, but it did get a bit…

The yoga sutras are two thousand year old spiritual classic. In India every spiritual teacher of any note has written a commentary on it. Ravi Ravindra is the latest of Jiddu Krishnamurti’s students to do the same. For that reason alone this book wil…

I’m not really into Alice Bailey’s work, nor into that of ‘The Tibetan’, but this autobiography is great. Funny, full of self knowledge and simply fascinating from the point of view of esoteric history.

Alice Bailey was born and raised in England in…

Cute and beautiful bags inspired by the wisdom of the Buddha and Buddhism. Like the Buddha bag on the left, which refers to the doctrine of karma as it says ‘What we think we become’.

The lotus shown is a symbol of spiritual attainment as it grows o…

Laptop sleeves are beautiful, cool or pretty ways to protect that precious piece of equipment. Whether your netbook is mostly used for work, gaming or staying in touch with friends, you really need a way to protect it against your life. For small lap…

My new favorite module is the My Lenses Module. No, I should not exaggerate: the text/write module and the amazon spotlight module are probably my most used modules. Still, the My Lenses module does make my life SO MUCH EASIER.

I’m not talking ordin…