Thoughts on Mudra
Another essay from the London Tantra Discussion Group wiki – this time, a reflection on mudras following a retreat the group held in 2002.
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Archive for September 2025
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Hail to the Mother of Contentment!
I first came across a reference to the goddess Santoshi Ma as a colour postcard in a back issue of Azoth magazine, and was inspired to ‘work’ with her as part of a sadhana using the Empress Tarot card that I later used as the basis of a freeform pathworking at public workshops in the mid-90s. At the time, I assumed that Santoshi was one of the many Hindu devis I had not come across before, and it was only later that I discovered that she was considered by some to be a ‘new’ addition to the company of devis and devas. This essay was originally written in 2005 and is from the defunct London Tantra Discussion Group.
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Book review Sri Krishna Prem: A Wing and a Prayer
One thing that continues to fascinate me is people that have been influential in their own time but have dropped off the radar since and received comparatively little attention since. When a friend alerted me to Jon Chapple’s biography of Sri Krishna Prem, I knew this would be a fascinating read. An Englishman, born Ronald Henry Nixon, who served in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. After the war, he became Professor of English at Lucknow and Banares Universities; and in his final incarnation, as it were, became Sri Krishna Prem – a Vaiṣṇava spiritual leader who attracted both Indian and western followers, including counter-cultural figures such as Timothy Leary and Ram Dass.
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