We wrapped up our Alchemist’s Apprentice Tarot four week workshop, a guided study through learning to read Tarot for yourself.

I was writing about obstacles to yoga practice and while ruminating on vyādhi, disease, I penned the following.

Let’s take a few moments to examine the differences between sanity, illusion and delusion.

“We think that we have met Your Goodness by the will of providence, just so that we may accept you as captain of the ship for those who desire to cross the difficult ocean of Kali, which deteriorates all the good qualities of a human being.” (SB 1.1.22)

What a pleasant surprise to see that my book Karma and Reincarnation hit #1 in Amazon Hot New Releases in Bhagavad Gita category on 26th of August 2018.

The word alchemy means to transmute one form of matter into another, or to change the form of material energy. In other words, magic. However, this activity is not based upon imagination or belief but rather upon science.

I had to discover how the universe works on my own by reading English translations of ancient Sanskrit texts.

When I was a teenager I used to believe in the Advaita or Māyāvāda philosophy. But I could not explain why, if I was everybody, if I became enlightened in another body, why I was suffering in the present body.  Why was I only conscious of my own body and not others?