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Malaysian New Age music, Mariem Hassan, and Scotland’s Capercaille
Imee Ooi By Elizabeth Doyle Imee Ooi – I like New Age music. It gets a bad reputation when people feel like it’s taking something sacred and making it palatable to people who don’t appreciate its...
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Vietnam: 104 rescued bears under threat
Quang Thien bounds across the grass of Animals Asia’s sanctuary in Vietnam. Authorities were able to confiscate her from a bile bear farm because she had not been microchipped, which is required by...
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Secluded and Mysterious Plaosan Temples
Reblogged from What an Amazing World!: What would come first in your mind if you have to mention one of Southeast Asian ancient temples? Angkor? The temples of Bagan? Borobudur? For those who have...
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Thailand: Excerpts from Soi Dog’s New Year’s message
Thailand: Excerpts from Soi Dog’s New Year’s message.
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An older world than we thought…
Gobekli Tepe Just a few years ago, an amazing complex of structures was discovered in eastern Turkey. Known as Gobekli Tepe, these are about twenty stone circles – not formed of rough-hewn stone,...
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The music of Dhevdhas Nair, in his own words, part three
By Elizabeth Doyle Dhevdhas Nair is a musician you really have to hear to believe. (You can sample or buy an album here: http://www.dhevdhasnair.com/id9.html) To read Part One first, click here Me:...
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The music of Dhevdhas Nair, in his own words, part four
By Elizabeth Doyle Dhevdhas Nair is a musician you really have to hear to believe. (You can sample or buy an album here: http://www.dhevdhasnair.com/id9.html) This is Part Four of a four-part...
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Floods in Uttarakhand: Help on the way for injured working animals
Monsoon rains in Uttarakhand have been heavier than at any time in the past 60 years, and floods have killed over 500 people. 5,000 are still missing, and the death toll is expected to rise....
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The Sun
To the Japanese who followed, and for those who still follow, the Shinto religion, the Goddess of the sun is Amaterasu, who is also Goddess of the universe. Her name means “shining in heaven.” The...
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The myth of progress
Flying on a magic carpet. By Sharon St Joan It’s not that there’s no such thing as progress. Indeed there is. If I want to travel around the world, I’ll take a plane. I won’t set out walking, or take a...
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Graham Hancock’s “Underworld”: Revealing the underwater ruins of ancient...
By Sharon St Joan In the Introduction to his very fascinating book, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, published in 2002, Graham Hancock presents the theory that the worldwide...
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Levels upon levels
By Sharon St Joan In the book Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin’s Theory, which is a sequel to his book “Forbidden Archaeology” (which I read about ten years ago) Michael Cremo...
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Is the bull the enemy?
By Sharon St Joan When watching the stock market, we talk about the bulls and the bears – why? Well, the symbolism behind this isn’t so much really about the bears, but it is about the bulls, who...
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1965 – The first anti-vivisection seminar in India
By Sharon St Joan This is one of a series of stories about the early days of the animal welfare movement in India. In 1965 Blue Cross of India sponsored the first anti-vivisection seminar ever...
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Emergency Animal Rescue – Nepal
Originally posted on : The earthquake’s devastation was instant and both humans and animals are suffering and need our help. AIA is recommending that anyone wishing to help the animals of Nepal...
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Ending the sacrifice at Gadhimai, part one
By Sharon St Joan Nearly 300 years ago, Bhagwan Chowdhary, a Nepalese man who’d been thrown into prison, prayed to the goddess Gadhimai for help, promising to sacrifice animals to her if she...
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Ending the sacrifice at Gadhimai, part two
By Sharon St Joan To read part one first, click here. Meanwhile, Gauri Maulekhi, of HSI and PFA, appealed to the Supreme Court of India, which then issued a directive to close the India-Nepal border...
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Saved from raging currents, buffalo gives birth to baby
By Rudra Krishna During the recent floods in Chennai, on November 14 at about 6 am, the Blue Cross of India received a call from Mr. Velu, on the Red Hills by-pass road, with the information that...
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