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Friday, March 20, 2015

Spiritual Awakening Radio

Spiritual Awakening Radio


 
Freedom of the Airwaves: It's unhealthy in a democracy for the media, including radio, to be dominated by one or two religious voices, as if they are the only ones that exist and no other faith community or point-of-view matters. If the religion/spirituality section of a bookstore was like the radio airwaves are in most places, only one or two books would be found there. The shelves would be mostly bare, covered in dust. No longer being content with the empty silence, I began recording my own programs. 

 "There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now." (Buddha) 

 Mission Statement -- Education For A More Peaceful Planet: 'There's not just one religion -- there are thousands. After years of being concerned that too few voices, too few points of view were getting heard when it comes to spiritual paths and world religions -- that the radio airwaves were not reflecting the diversity that really exists -- I started producing my own programs, exploring the world of spirituality, comparative religion, meditation, mysticism, vegetarianism, the vegan diet, and books, bringing to the airwaves the gentle voices of Saints, the Wisdom of Masters or Mystics, world scriptures, sacred texts, the great spiritual traditions and classics of the East & the West.'

More About Spiritual Awakening Radio: https://about.me/SpiritualAwakeningRadio






Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The Radhasoami Movement, a Scholarly Book by Om Parkash Kaushal

The Radhasoami Movement, a Scholarly Book by Om Parkash Kaushal
 




Just received a new book today: "The Radhasoami Movement" by Om Parkash Kaushal. It's about various aspects of recent Sant Mat history from the time of Sant Tulsi Sahib (and one of his successors: Sant Girdhari Das) through the 1990's, including Agra and Beas satsangs, and especially focuses on the Baba Bagga Singh branches associated with Tarn Taran and Saidpur. I learned of this book by way of David Lane, who extensively discusses and reviews it in the new issue of the e-magazine "Sach Khand". 

He writes: "What makes the book unique is that it provides hitherto unavailable information on a number of lesser known gurus and satsangs that branched off from Jaimal Singh and Sawan Singh respectively. Kaushal provides illuminating detail on the founding of Tarn Taran satsang by Baba Bagga Singh and the subsequent disputes concerning succession within that lineage. He provides material that has not been published anywhere else before."