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Published on Friday, November 13, 2026.
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AccountIndigenous elders from several continents to gather in South Africa for the Origins meetingThe World Tribal Alliance is preparing, on the Cape Peninsula, a week of ceremonies with knowledge keepers from dozens of peoples, including Maori, San and Lakota.TraditionKarma Yoga: acting without attachment to the fruits, the yoga of actionKarma Yoga proposes turning work into a spiritual path by acting without attachment to the fruits; the tradition sees in action and the law of karma what binds or frees.TraditionWhat is the form of God? What the hymn to Dakṣiṇāmūrti says, in Vedānta's readingFor non-dual Vedānta, the Dakṣiṇāmūrti-Stotram hymn describes God as the Whole in eight aspects, among them the observer itself.AccountA Hermetic manifesto against "selective blindness": mind, ether, and archonsAn anonymous opinion piece argues the universe is mental, ether was forgotten on purpose, and everyone can recover the ability to perceive the invisible.TraditionKatha Upanishad: the young Nachiketas and the question Death tried to dodgeIn the Katha Upanishad, a young man asks Yama, lord of death, to reveal what exists after the end; the answer is the doctrine of ātman, the Self that does not die.TraditionSahaja avasthā, the natural state of Being: the image of the rope and the snake in VedāntaIn the Vedānta tradition, sahaja avasthā is the state in which Being is recognized without effort; a talk in Hindi explains it through the image of a rope mistaken for a snake.AccountBlack Holes as Portals and as Metaphor: What Astronomy Says and What It Doesn'tIn a livestream, Shell linked the Milky Way's black hole to cosmic portals and to crises of the soul; astronomy describes the object, but not portals.AccountWhy pride keeps people from faith: a reflection on the emptiness of living "well"In a livestream, teacher Lu argues that pride hides a fear of depending on others, and that, for those who feel wounded, faith begins in vulnerability.AccountHuman-reptilian hybrids: Lu's account of beings in spiritual re-educationLu says she saw, in a spiritual colony, beings she describes as human-reptilian hybrids; the account mixes ufology and Spiritist tradition.TraditionThe Reality of the Rulers: the Nag Hammadi text that reinterprets GenesisThe Hypostasis of the Archons, found in Egypt in 1945, rereads Genesis as a cosmic drama: Sophia's mistake, the Demiurge, the archons, and a Christ who awakens.AccountLeaving the valley: Jeshua's channeled explanation for the weight of familyIn a message Pamela Kribbe says she channels from Jeshua, those born into families bound by fear must drop the role of savior and climb their own mountain.AccountAfter death, humans and animals: the view attributed to Edgar CayceA text attributes to Edgar Cayce the idea that death is a transition to a plane of learning, where animals also have souls.AccountExtraterrestrial disclosure as inner awakening: a reading of a channeled messageA message attributed to Tia of Arcturus says that disclosure of extraterrestrial contact is an inner awakening of humanity, not the release of official proof.AccountSpiritual resorts, games, and a writers' house: inside one man's vision of heavenSaulo Calderon says he visited, in astral projection, a seaside leisure colony in the spirit world, an idea that echoes Spiritist literature about the colonies.AccountWho are you without your name? A talk on social identity and the "higher self"Physicist and spiritual instructor Laércio Fonseca says ordinary identity is social programming, and the "higher self" is the eternal center of every person.TraditionUpa-paramā: Vedānta's renunciation means leaning on nothing, not giving up everythingIn Vedānta, one virtue required of students is inner renunciation: no longer propping identity on possessions, relationships, or image, with nothing to abandon.TraditionConsciousness with a body: what Vedānta says the “self” isFor Vedānta, the “self” is neither body nor mind, but the Ātman, unchanging consciousness; a study of Swāmi Dayānanda's teachings explains the argument.AccountMaitreya and the "new theosophy": a video's claim about the movement's futureA video from the A Luz da Teosofia channel argues that Blavatsky's theosophy was a preparatory stage and that a figure called Maitreya would restore the ancient mysteries.TraditionA method made to be abandoned: Vedānta and the question of deathFor teacher Uddhava, Vedānta is not a body of doctrines, but a provisional method of teaching, which the question of death helps explain.TraditionDeath as companion: what Vedānta teaches about time, discipline, and urgencyFor Vedānta, death accompanies every person from birth, and it is death that gives life its weight and urgency, according to teacher Uddhava.