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Swastika – The Enigmatic Universal Symbol
Ancient symbols have a sense of mystery and awe wrapped around it – like the Swastika. The initial impression might revolve around its use by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which has stigmatized its use in the Western culture. But interestingly, Swastika has been a sacred …
Kogis, Guardians of the Earth
“The earth is diseased, trees are drying…new illnesses will appear and there will be no cure or medicines for them. Younger brother is violating fundamental principles continually…drilling, mining, extracting petrol, minerals…that’s damaging the world. Tell them to open their eyes, we can no longer repair …
An Aghori’s Path to Enlightenment
The 1000-year old Hindu sect that challenges traditional religious beliefs and follows an unconventional, radical path to enlightenment, the Aghoris. Death, their spiritual teacher; the cremation grounds their home and Shiva, their God, the destroyer and the embodiment of death.
Aghoris believe that Shiva induced the …
The Relation Between Long Hair & Consciousness
We are conditioned to think that hair styling is important and how it makes a cool fashion statement. But in olden times it was a different story. An interesting find revealed that long hair in men was actually related to consciousness or the sixth sense. …
The Pagan Origins of Christmas and Easter
Always learning, always searching for answers to questions, perhaps holds true to you as it does to me. I gave up on the religion I was born in, the church, many years ago, I don’t know why or how it happened to me? Maybe it …
Ley Lines and Earth’s Chakras
We know about the main vortexes of energy in the human body – chakras, but I accepted quite naturally that Gaia, mother earth too has Chakras. How we have energy flowing through our body, the earth too has an energy flow that seems to be …
The Intriguing Apatani Culture
A long time ago we had written about Kayans, the women from Burma who wear thick rings on their necks from a very young age. Those neck pieces were enchanting and repressing, today we shall take a look at the Apatanis, also known as the …
The Wandering Ayurvedic Doctors of India
Traveling around the country in vans, living in open fields, following an age-old tradition of selling Ayurvedic jadibuti (medicinal and aromatic plants)), is the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe from Satna district in Madhya Pradesh.
We came across group of families settled on a barren …
The Old Custom of Stilt Fishing in Sri Lanka
This is no ordinary fishing, there might be several methods of catching a fish but this one is mind-boggling. Fishermen in Sri Lanka use stilts to catch a fish. Yes, stilt fishing is an old tradition practiced by around 500 fishing families in Galle, …
The Italian Church with Walls of Skulls
War memorials are built to honour the lives of soldiers or freedom fighters who died during war, but this particular place had a unique way of preserving an important piece of history.
A Cathedral in Otranto city, Apulia region in south Italy has skulls of …
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