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		<title>real life and the search for happiness</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/real-life-and-the-search-for-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>katinkaspiritual</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m wondering whether the search for happiness is at all a reasonable search. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I want happiness as much as anyone. But sorrow is part of life, and facing sorrow and working through it (having a healthy cry for instance) works better than putting on a happy face.

I&#8217;m writing this blogpost in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One With Everything? An Atman Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to start to working on the next video.  As it will be part of the series on the sevenfold constitution, it will focus on the principle of atman.
To that end, I invite your comments on the question, &#8216;What does it mean to be one with everything?&#8217;
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		<title>blog for institutional issues</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/blog-for-institutional-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have created another blog specifically for the discussion of institutional issues.
Please visit http://theosophicalsociety.wordpress.com/ to participate.
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		<title>everyday ecstasy II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are these moments, not infrequent, when the love that is flowing through me, that seeks its course in every direction my senses, mind and heart move, is so overwhelming, so whole, so present, pure and perfect, that a lifetime spent finding the words, the movements, the melody, the shape or the presence that can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope John Paul II meditating on the Tarot?</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/pope-john-paul-ii-meditating-on-the-tarot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Govert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
 

Another very intriguing addition to the perception of the possible esoteric interests of Pope John Paul II came from a friend of my Alpheus web site in the form of a set of photos, one of which shows the pope sitting behind his desk with a stack of books. The bottom two books are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Popes, phenomenology and HPB</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Govert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Popes, phenomenology and HPB
 
The relevance of the philosophical school of phenomenology for theosophy and other spiritual traditions is a prominent theme on the Alpheus web site. To bolster the argument I sometimes refer to the fruitful way religious thinkers have used phenomenology for deepening the self-understanding of their own tradition.

 
For example, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Experiential Grounding of Theosophy</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/the-experiential-grounding-of-theosophy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Govert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is intended to be an extended philosophical meditation/discussion on the possibility of grounding Theosophy in non-theoretical, non-metaphysical experiential terms.
The question started as comment no. 8 in the post &#8220;sort of perplexing&#8221; by Latebrake. I invite my first and only discussion partner Pablo to re-submit his comment, then I&#8217;ll do mine, etc. till we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essentials of Theosophy - Vol. I - The Sevenfold Constitution - Part 1 - An Overview</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/essentials-of-theosophy-vol-i-the-sevenfold-constitution-part-1-an-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first part of a series of courses that will be hosted here.  This is Part I of Essentials of Theosophy - Vol. I - The Sevenfold Constitution.  Part 1 is an overview of all seven principles by Pablo Sender.
Note that this is an enhanced podcast with links embedded into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness with no object</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/happiness-with-no-object/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A common feature to most human beings is the pursuit of happiness. A second common feature is their failure in the pursuit. Our modern culture created an almost infinite amount of “happiness-producer-objects”. Technology, comfort, money, fame, a career are publicized as producers of happiness. We usually see even our relationships as no more than another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Exist?</title>
		<link>http://theosophist.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/do-you-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is our first video!  It is rough, but it is a start.

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