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July 2009
Vol 19 No 5

• Did the Nazi crusade reveal something in the European character?
• Notes on a low point in Europe’s history.
• Responses to "Notes on a low point..."

January 2009
Vol 19 No 4

• Goldibera - a short story
• Religious ferment in political movements, from nazis to hippies

July/Sept 2008
Vol 19 No 3

• Earthiness and vision
• Answered prayer

May/June 2008
Vol 19 No 2

• Traditionalists, rebels, international languages, classical languages...
• Zamenhof, Baha'u'llah, Ramakrishna
• Absurd and profound

March/April 2008
Vol 19 No 1

• Esperanto - an ugly duckling grows
• Esperanto in the light of Kalidasa’s Sanskrit
• Esperanto and Orwell’s Newspeak

Jan/Feb 2008
Vol 18 No 6

• Kali and Eros
• Book review - Renowned Goddess of Desire - Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra, by Loriliai Biernacki (reviewed by CR)
• Why tantra has negative associations for some

Nov/Dec 2007
Vol 18 No 5

• Fish’s child, boat-girl, queen - Kali Satyavati of the Mahabharata
• Kali in my garden, by Shé D’Montford
• A conversation about anger

Sept/Oct 2007
Vol 18 No 4

• In the shadow of a green zone - fear, anger and beyond...

June/Aug 2007
Vol 18 No 3

• "Kali" and related words in the Devi Mahatmya - a new look at an old book...

April/May 2007
Vol 18 No 2

• Love of death - reflections on Matthew Fox, Erich Fromm, Heinrich Zimmer
• The true devotee, by Paulie Rainbow
• A wealth of synonyms

February/March 2007
Vol 18 No 1

• A God for the Goddess - notes on the masculine word Kala

December 2006/January 2007
Vol 17 No 6

• Areas of weakness and strength - the story of a bookish hermit
• Lakes of another world
• A voice from the waters

October/November 2006
Vol 17 No 5

• A cloud-like lady
• Yoni in rock, linga in ice

August/September 2006
Vol 17 No 4

• How to study the literature of Kali - Reflections on David Kinsley
• Ramprasad’s poetic vision of Kali - synthesis or revival?

June/July 2006
Vol 17 No 3

• Sharpness - lines about another Mary
• Kali in the Cosmos

April 2006
Vol 17 No 2

• Anima Mundi - The Goddess as Soul of the World
• Carnivorous conversation
• Poems by Bennet Tellis (Krithyananda) and Andrew Pell

February 2006
Vol 17 No 1

• Chess and the Vision
• Kali and the Empire
• Political reflections
• Poem by Margaret Fyre

December 2005
Vol 16 No 6

• Finding Kali as a vision for the world today - a statement about Ferment’s work
• Meaning in everyday violence
• Does ‘Kali Ma’ really mean ‘Black Mother’?