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Resources for the Journey

  • Of God and Self
    • Self and Self Realisation
  • Gurus, Guides or Do It Yourself
    • New Age Gurus and Selling the Sacred
  • Eastern Theologies and Western Mysticism
    • Dualism and the Bhakti Movement
    • Dvaita or Advaita? The Dual – Non Dual Debate
  • Mysticism
    • Experiencing Divinity: Advaita and Mysticism Revisited
    • Mysticism Revisited: A Personal View
      • To Be A Mystic. Concluding Remarks
    • Use (and abuse) of Psychoactive Substances
  • Guidance for Seekers: Approach and Practice
    • Doing the Work, or Looking the Part?
    • Seeking Enlightenment. How to look and whether to pay
      • The Age of Recreational Spirituality
    • Finding Your Grail
    • Self Realisation Simply Put
    • The Well Within
    • Being Human in the Present Day. A Cautionary Note
    • Conclusion: Your Journey, Your Life
  • Postscript. Final thoughts from Rishikesh
  • To Be A Pilgrim
  • My Parting Word
  • A Note on Translation
  • Explanatory Notes

Author at Triyuginarayan Temple, Uttarakhand, India. October 2020

Shiva Nataraja

  • Passage to India,  Rishikesh,  Travel

    The Sixties called. They want their icons back

    During the long period of the Indian lockdown across the summer of 2020, my home became an attractive hotel on the edge of town along the Badrinath Road, called Hotel Sixties Greenhills. Here I might be found many a day…

    By Elizabeth Currie 12 April 2022
  • Passage to India,  Rishikesh,  Travel

    Rishikesh for Ravers

    Rishikesh lies in the valley of a gorge of the still young River Ganges in the first low foothills of the Himalayas in the northern state of Uttarakhand. It has an ancient pedigree as a sacred pilgrimage location, home to…

    By Elizabeth Currie 11 April 2022

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Pilgrim, writer, artist, philosopher, humanist, mystic

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    “Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a […]

These posts were published across the main period of Pilgrimage, commencing in the 2021 Nepal phase, concluding in Rishikesh April 2023. They offer vivid accounts of my journeys and experiences as I lived them.

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Header image is of the Annapurna Massif, taken from Lakeside, Pokhara, Nepal. October 2021

Turbulent Priest is the companion blog to In the Spirit with posts drawn from my views and experiences of the world as I live it now.

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  • Of God and Self
  • Gurus, Guides or Do It Yourself
  • Eastern Theologies and Western Mysticism
  • Mysticism
  • Guidance for Seekers: Approach and Practice
  • Postscript. Final thoughts from Rishikesh
  • To Be A Pilgrim
  • My Parting Word
  • A Note on Translation
  • Explanatory Notes
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