Religion and Spirituality on squidoo

CrypticFragments blogs about her experiences in Tibet on her blog ‘Sacred Sojourns‘. Since she’s been contributing quality spiritual hubs to squidoo for ages, and recently inspired my first blogpost about MY trip to India (planned for next year or the year after), I thought it was about time I feature her here.

She shares a lot about the situation for Tibetans in Exile as well as the place she’s staying, which is the part time home of the Dalai Lama: Dharamsala, particularly McleodGanj. She shares a lot about various aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, like the famous prayer wheels for instance.

But perhaps I should start at the beginning: Buddhism is a world religion, but like Christianity it comes in all kinds of flavors. One of those flavors is Tibetan Buddhism. But Tibetan Buddhism itself consists of various schools. Learn more about that on Crypticfragments lens about the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. If you thought that’s where it stopped, you’d be wrong. For instance, within the Kagyupa, one of the four schools, there’s a subschool called Karma Kagyu, the head of which is called the Karmapa. Like the Dalai Lama’s these are reincarnated regularly, we’re at the 17th Karmapa right now, as opposed to only the 14th Dalai Lama.

Witch China interfering, such successions are becoming a source for controversy. Read Sacred Sojourn’s lens about the Panchen Lama controversy, for instance.

Mysticmama has made quite a career at squidoo. She joined early 2009 and is already a giant squid top 100 member. She shares in the spiritual niche with me, but with a different focus. The lens I want to share with you today is about a topic that I know many people wonder about: what’s the power of prayer? How does prayer relate to meditation? On this lens she doesn’t just talk about Christian prayer, but also about Tibetan Prayerflags and prayerwheels, about prayer beads in Roman Catholicism, Buddhism and Hinduism, meditation and her own experience with healing prayer. All in all a fascinating lens that let’s you join in on the discussion.

One of the classic spiritual teachers from the 1960’s is Richard Bach. His ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ is a powerful story of a seagull who transcends what it means to be a bird – and ends up teaching others to fly like he does. Powerfully inspiring, these teachings forshadow ‘the secret’ in many ways, without the focus on money that so spoils the teachings of many who talk about ‘the law of attraction‘.

Are there two spiritual traditions more at odds than Christianity and Paganism? The word Pagan used to denote anyone who was not Christian. These days however, paganism is making a comeback as a nature religion in which male and female are more in balance. It was perhaps to be expected that some would try to bridge the gap between Christianity and Paganism by simply uniting the two. Let BooBooBear explain how… on her lens ChristoPaganism.

More lenses about paganism and wicca (by yours truly)

• Favorite Witches Sayings
• Witches, Wicca and Pagan calendars
• Pagan Calendars and Planners

See also the Gothic Temptations Group by RMS.

Well, I guess you all know me… I’ve decided to use this space to highlight the best spiritual and religious lenses on squidoo. And yes, that will include my own.

In fact: let’s start with my latest spiritual lenses, and my spiritual lensographies (yes, that’s plural).

• My general spiritual lensography.
• (new) my religious and spiritual debates.
• Spiritual and religious gifts and presents, for Christmas for instance.
  • Pema Chodron Buddhism books (new)
  • Spiritual and religious desk calendars (new)
  • Religious and spiritual jewelry
  • Spiritual calendars and planners
  • The best spiritual books ever
    • Book review: Man the Measure of All Things (new)
• Are meetings with aliens psychic experiences? (new)