We have just launched a new website in our spiritual series, MetaSyntagma. Called Arunachala Spirit it will be blogged directly from the mystical mountain itself by Meenakshi Mammi, who lives on the spot.

Meenakshi writes :

“I am writing to you from Arunachala, South India. We are located about 150 kms from Chennai (Madras) in the agricultural heartland of Tamil Nadu.

“I would like to welcome you to Arunachala Spirit, a blog which will attempt to convey some part of the magic and mystery of Arunachala, one of the most famous sacred sites in India. This is a place of which ancient legends and reports tell of miraculous happenings where the sick are healed, prophets see visions, deities appear, pilgrims get wishes fulfilled and sages attain spiritual enlightenment.”

I believe this is definitely one to follow.

John

As part of Syntagma’s Meta- series, we’ll be launching Arunachala News in September.

This is a new website providing on-the-spot coverage of life on India’s most mystical mountain : Arunachala. It will be authored by Meenakshi Mammi, who writes a newsletter from this sacred spot made famous worldwide by the presence of Ramana Maharshi in the first half of the 20th century.

Ramana’s method was quite simple:

“As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one’s self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one’s nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep where there is no mind, one should know one’s self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form “Who am I?”, is the principal means.”

Readers who follow our other websites across Syntagma Media’s network will know we have for a while had an informal supplement, or grouping of blogs, concerned with spiritual and paranormal topics.

Now that A Spirit of Place is no longer with us, owing to the author losing interest in writing about places she had never visited, we have just two sites left in this section: this one and Supernatural, authored by Deborah Woehr.

However, in September we are going to extend the group with a number of new sites based on different topic areas. One we are very hopeful of setting up arrived as a result of A Spirit of Place and may manifest in the form of a blog written directly from Arunachala, that mystical place which was the home of Ramana Maharshi in the first half of the 20th century.

Others are in the pipeline and will make up a new supplement called MetaSyntagma. Stay tuned for more information.