"Aravinda was given two names by people who loved her" were the words that opened the August 2014 memorial service for Aravinda, also known as Louise Bertrand. As Louise, she became known to the members of the Wellington Study Group around twenty years ago. Formerly a member of the...

Reading  taken  from  Sw. Visnudevananda’s Upadeshas; his thoughts on Karma and Reincarnation .  Sw. Vishnu was a disciple of Sw. Sivananda of the Saraswati Lineage. There is one thing that is certain in life and that is death.  Our life span is 100 years, give...

Published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop. The “Authors” of this 2014 publication are unidentified in the publication, though their story is well known within the Wellington Study Group (WSG). One of the core group was Jean Watson, Authoress and benefactor of the Dhan Kuranai...

So meditation, which leads to inner quiet, may be a direct aid to those who follow a particular religion, but it has equal value for those who have no particular belief and no particular philosophy of life. Equally it can help those whose main interest is in outer activity, for the direction of...

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you  Don’t go back to sleep  You must ask for what you really want Don’t go back to sleep People are going back and forth across the  threshold where the two worlds touch,  the door is round and...

Books The library has continued to receive donations and this year we acknowledge the following with thanks: “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” by GRS Mead “Gurdjieff: Making a New World” by JG Bennett “A Study of Gurdjieff’s Teaching” by...