LOG 1.16: Barcelona on my mind

 Posted on November 3, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  406 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

5th May, 2011 Hello, Tonight I sleep in Bremen Airport to be on time for a very early morning flight to Barcelona where I will meet two of my close friends from my year in Edinburgh … it will be one of their birthdays during the weekend when we will be there and we will be staying with the kind hospitality of the other’s brother. [Read More]
60s  across the universe  barcelona  Beatles  bejeweled  birthday  bremen airport  Edinburgh  europe  facbook  flowers  games  gemswap  german  german humour  green  leaves  may  spring 

LOG 1.15: Rise and Fall

 Posted on October 27, 2012  |  3 minutes  |  485 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

22nd April, 2011 Janani’s log; Solar date: 220411.12 Last week I had crammed too many activities into my schedule; attending multiple classes, working on the programming, in aerobics, music group and a Greenpeace meeting. [Read More]
aerobics  badminton  bewitched  cold  computer science  computers  dinner  education  EEGLab  Facebook  football  german  green peace  health  homework  I Dream of Jeannie  indian  indian food  keyboard  matlab  music  neuropsychology  presentation  Q  scotty  shopiing  spock  star trek  teacher  TNG  videos 

LOG 1.14: A Trip to Göttingen

 Posted on October 20, 2012  |  7 minutes  |  1327 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

10th April, 2011 Hello everyone 🙂 I just returned from a trip to Göttingen where my flatmates and I celebrated an old flatmate’s birthday. We took a train yesterday morning and I was quite taken in by the beauty of the countryside. [Read More]
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Spiritual, religious or philosophical?

 Posted on October 14, 2012  |  6 minutes  |  1271 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Many people confuse spirituality with religiousness, and philosophy with spirituality. Here I will attempt to tease out the differences as I see them. To be religious is to follow a given set of rules generally defined by an existing system of organised faith. [Read More]
adam and eve  arne naess  carbon cycle  categorise  ceremonies  christians and muslims  conflict  culture  deep ecology  deep experience  define  diversity  duality  duality of language  earth  eden  energy cycle  eternal bliss  forbidden fruit  god  identity  intellectual pursuit  joseph campbell  knowledge  language  maharishi  mantrams  math  matter cycle  meditation  mental definitions  merge with god  mind  moksha  monk  mountain  music  mythology  nirvana  organised faith  particle physics  peace  philisophical  philosophy  poetry  prayer  quantum physics  ramana maharishi  religious  religious philosophies  religious philosophy  rituals  role of mythology  salvation  sanyasi  social  spiritual  spirituality  theology  Unity  universe  water cycle  who am i?  who are we  wolf  yoga 

LOG 1.13: Spring 'time', German and the 60´s

 Posted on October 13, 2012  |  5 minutes  |  1062 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

31st March, 2011 After some rain last night, the air smells like monsoon in India; so fresh and clean! I´ve opened the window to let it come in and along with it are the chirps and tweets of the birds. [Read More]
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LOG 1.12: DMT, The Discovery of Dro"gen Hasen Weg and the Super Extreme Moon

 Posted on October 6, 2012  |  4 minutes  |  740 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

18th March, 2011 Hello everyone, I watched this video recently. http://www.esoterictube.com/dmt-the-spirit-molecule.htmlIt corresponds with what Joseph Campbell says about the spiritual world (as represented by myths and anecdotes from those who meditate, and shamans), drugs and psychological diseases like schizophrenia. [Read More]
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LOG 1.11: Light jackets and Programing

 Posted on September 29, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  347 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

13th March, 2011 Hi Everyone 🙂 We are halfway through March and temperatures are now ranging between 7-13! Quite warm (relatively) and it is now ok to venture out with either a light jacket with a heavy-ish sweater or with only one heavy jacket on. [Read More]
equinox  german  jacket  kareoke  learning german  march  Mr. Spock  original series  Presentation software  program  star trek  the next generation  TNG  tutorials 

LOG 1.10: The first signs

 Posted on September 22, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  404 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

28th February, 2011 Hello, It is now possible to see the first signs of Spring. The trees are bearing buds that will leaf and flower forth. [Read More]
books  buds  byrin  ediburgh  english books  fantasy  flowers  grey's anatomy  heavy metal  idiocracy  leaves  library  Light  Oldenburg  sci-fi  shakespeare  singing  spring  star trek  tennyson  the vedic experience  vaaranam aayiram 

'Garbage out, garbage out' by C.K. Meena

 Posted on September 18, 2012  |  5 minutes  |  990 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

C.K. Meena is a columnist in The Hindu, one of India´s biggest news papers. She was my teacher when I took up a certificate course in Journalism and we soon became friends. [Read More]
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