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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
The History of Winnie the Pooh
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Harry Colebourn with Winnie Lieutenant Harry Colebourn of Winnipeg, Manitoba, bought a black bear cub for twenty dollars from a hun...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Vampires in India
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Anne Rice would love this: Vampires have a long history in India. In fact, some historians believe that the vampire myth started in India ...
Four Female Saints of India
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The feminine aspect of the divine is very strong in Hinduism—whether in the many Deities worshipped, in the theology, or in the number of ...
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Where is Shangri La and what is its connection to yoga?
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In 1933 James Hilton, in his novel Lost Horizon , wrote about the legend of Shangri-La (a variant of the original Shambala.) He place...
The Musical Extinctions
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The word “ extinction ” evokes images of dinosaurs and dodos, animals once plenty, but now existing only in the historical record. C...
The Origins of Tree Hugging
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Painting of the massacre of Bishnois in 1730 The term tree-hugger in North America is generally used in a pejorative sense, to re...
Who is a sannyasi?
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A Sannyasi A favorite of magazine covers and documentaries, nothing presents a more exotic and mysterious picture of Hinduism than t...
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