Volume 18, Issue 1

By Unknown Author - Apr 24, 2010

Mother, how can the functioning of the body "attain to a supreme capacity"?

By Vallath Nandini - Apr 24, 2010

‘How to squeeze the last remaining droplets of a patient’s hope and life once the doctors are done with them' or 'The art of collaborating with corrupt doctors who have sold their souls to the devil and still believe that they are serving someone other than themselves’

By Alok Pandey - Apr 24, 2010

We had an unexpected visitor the other day. Well, not quite so, given the fact that ‘it is the hour of the unexpected’. Nevertheless we did not expect a monkey to enter the house by the third floor and move about the house as if he were quite familiar with the ways of human beings. Not that we have much to boast about, but we somehow nurture a sense of superiority over the animal kind. Even the most depressed person, someone suffering from a constant inferiority complex, (which, by the way, is only the obverse side of a hidden wish for superiority) would normally not regard himself as inferior to an animal. Darwin told us so. We are superior animals, intelligent beings, better equipped for survival than all other creatures from the virus to God knows whatever else. Only the aliens may surpass us in cunning and intelligence. As a human species we are always told to look down upon a poor creature on the road, to pity or avoid it. There is nothing we can learn from it, though we can use it for our domestic purposes or for entertainment. Of course I have known people wallowing in states where they feel themselves worse than a worm. Perhaps that is what retrogression is and not the way we describe it, grotesquely and a little dramatically, as people recounting all their past lives in an animal form in such detail as if it was something great remembering one’s worm-hood or monkey-hood.

By Vandana and Nancy Whitlow - Apr 24, 2010

“ For the more subtle is also more powerful, — one might say, the more truly concrete; it is less bound than the gross, it has a greater permanence in its being along with a greater potentiality, plasticity and range in its becoming .”

By Vandana and Nancy Whitlow - Apr 24, 2010

This is from the last series of conversations between Nancy and Vandana on the flower essences from SAIIIHR. This conversation centres around the flower of the Eucalyptus whose significance according to the Mother is Abolition of the Ego.