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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,  Travel

    Works still to do

    “Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat, only thou and I and never a soul in the world would know of this our pilgrimage to no country and to no end.  In that…

    By Elizabeth Currie 20 June 2022
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    Roadrunner. Before the Road to Salvation

    Before the Road to Salvation, there was always a road to somewhere for me, as journeying has pretty much always been my life’s imperative, perhaps as in the words of the song ‘I’m a roadrunner baby’. That said, much of…

    By Elizabeth Currie 7 June 2022
  • Passage to India,  Road to Salvation,  Travel

    Pilgrim’s progress. Highlights from the Road to Salvation

    I arrived into Delhi on 19th November 2019 and spent a few days there adjusting to the immense change in my circumstances. The last time I had been in the country was back in March of that year, and that…

    By Elizabeth Currie 3 June 2022

Author

Pilgrim, writer, artist, philosopher, humanist, mystic

Recent Posts

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  • Continuing In the Spirit
    The last two posts published here –  Return to Source (5th […]
  • Return to the Source
    The young Ganges and distant Gangotri glacier We all need to return […]
  • Pilgrim’s Return
    In my final post of this travel blog ‘Works Still to Do’, […]
  • Works still to do
    “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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