Every once in a while I do an overview post of all the spiritual stuff I have put online in the past period. It turns out that the last time I did this was almost a year ago, so this post is long overdue. This post is also the basis for my newsletter.
Most importantly of course, 2014 was the year I published my first book: Essays on Karma. I can report that it was downloaded 385 times in 2014 and that two people gave it a 5 star review.
My posts on All Considering for 2014:
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19/12 –2014 – what a year!(0)
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09/12 –Meditation and self-knowledge(1)
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27/11 –A Dummy’s Guide to Spiritual Hitchhiking(2)
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21/11 –What happened to Katinka?(1)
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16/06 –Female vs Male Spirituality(0)
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06/06 –How to be a bad girl – or a strong woman(1)
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15/03 –Academic learning vs Emotional learning(3)
My book reviews on Great Spiritual Books for 2014 and January 2015 are a mix of material I wrote earlier for Squidoo (more on that later) and book reviews of books I read this year.
- Best Thich Nhat Hanh Books
- Best Dalai Lama Books List
- Creative Evolution by Amit Goswami PhD (reblog from Squidoo)
- Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas (reblog from Squidoo)
- The Buddhist Handbook, by John Snelling (reblog from Squidoo)
- Best Dalai Lama Biography: Kundun by Mary Craig (reblog from Squidoo)
- Meditation books for kids (reblog from Squidoo)
- Love: The Saint and the Seeker – Mother Teresa and Christina Stevens
- The View From Within: First Person Approaches To The Study Of Consciousness (reblog from Squidoo)
- Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
- Mindfulness for Dummies review
- Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth
- Neufelt, Ronald W. (ed). Karma and rebirth: Post Classical Developments
- Doniger O’Flaherty, Wendy (ed). Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
- Karma: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
- HH the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
- Trying not to Try – Wu Wei and De
Squidoo is a site that I was very active on for the past years. At it’s height I earned a very decent living there. It helped me buy my house. It is also one of the places where I developed as a writer. However, the last year or two have been frustrating and when the news came that Squidoo was quitting and all our content would be moved to Hubpages, I was pretty happy about it.
However, it turns out that my spiritual content is not doing so well on Hubpages as it did on Squidoo. A lot of it doesn’t fall in step with their editorial guidelines and Google has pretty much stopped sending traffic. I have therefore begun moving much of it to my own sites. The book reviews went to my spiritual books blog, and a few pages ended up here on All Considering.
However, most of it fits best on my oldest site: KatinkaHesselink.net. The result is that I have – after years of neglect – been looking at that site with fresh eyes. I have given it a redesign and individual pages have been enriched with the material from Squidoo. What follows is a list of those pages and as you can see – it is quite long. Most already existed, but I have added a few totally new pages as well. I am about halfway through my former spirituality Squidoo account, so you can expect more of this in future. This is a selection.
- Religious Jokes and Spiritual Stories
- Spiritual Teachers and Gurus
- Short Wisdom quotes and Spiritual Aphorisms
- Love Quotes
- Quotes on success and failure
- Tao Te Ching Quotations
- Rudolf Steiner Quotes
- Christian Quotes
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Meditation, Mindfulness and the relativity of thought in Buddhism
- Alternative Christianity
Biographies
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Anthony de Mello
- Idris Shah
- H.P. Blavatsky
- Kahlil Gibran
- N. Sri Ram
- John Hick
- William James
- Ken Wilber
- Karen Armstrong
- Annie Besant
- Geoffrey Hodson
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- H.H. the Dalai Lama
- Best books about the world religions
- Buddhism Gifts
- Buddhism Books
- Mindfulness Books
- Tibetan Buddhism Books
- Jiddu Krishnamurti Books
- Christian Gifts
- Advent Calendars
- Theosophy Books
I also have a small blog devoted to Indian spirituality. I started it when I was planning to go there again. I didn’t go, but I did start a blog and have now used it as a home for some Squidoo content:
- Hindu Religious Books for Children
- Best Sri Aurobindo Books
- What inspired me to want to go to India
- Yoga – history and tradition from India
This year was notable for me for various reasons. One was that I got to see H.H. the Dalai Lama, first in Rotterdam and then in Hamburg. As he taught on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara by Santideva in Germany, I made sure to read a translation and commentary. I settled on the one by Pema Chodron (there are many). She is one of the Buddhist teachers I admire most, so I made a site about her a few years back.