Karin Wenger
This month Spirit House Connection was interviewed by Karin Wenger from the Swiss National Public Radio and Television (SRF). The file is in German, so for all you Deutsch speakers, here is a treat for you!
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Did you know that Spirit House Connection has the world's largest collection of geourgous professional photographs of spirit houses from all over Thailand? (At least the I know of!) Photographer Frank Fuller and I travelled for 3 years scouting out spirit houses from rice fields to nightclubs. With over 10,000 images of spirit houses, I had to decide how to catalog them just for you. I did this through the slideshows that appear in the SLIDESHOWS
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Happy Fire Monkey Year 2016! This is a great year to tap into the creative passion of the fire monkey for all kinds of expressive endeavors and innovation. Make sure to use extra awareness when making decisions this year as the energy of fire and metal can bring about a clouded view. Don't take on too many projects, it's better to focus on one and do it well or that fire could burn out. To balance the fire and metal elements is easy, just nouris
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The home made spirit house looks content with offerings amidst a piles of tires on an empty plot of land. Here is the full view:
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Craving. We all know it. It’s programmed in our desire to exist, to live, to love and enjoy. The media thrives on our cravings and constantly feeds us more of them to indulge their own. Ultimately it is our choice to consume or live a conscious life. The Buddha described the mess of perpetual desire (tanha in Pali) as a knotted ball of string that keeps us bound up in suffering and rebirth. The way to unravel the string and become enlighte
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The local Thai spirit house embodies a sense of transcendence and humility. I love this shot by Frank Fuller.
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There is a place in Thailand where they celebrate Halloween all year round. No, it’s not the famous Pii Ta Khon festival where villagers dress up like ghouls and demons or the Day of the Dead in the 10th lunar month when Thais venerate their ancestors. This is a legitimate 365 day/week ghost shrine where people of all ages come to make wishes and ask for help from a powerful female ghost. Being that many of the people I interviewed at the s
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Once upon a time I spent the night at a temple in Petchabun province to study with a 130 year old alchemist monk named Long Pu Lamai. While toothless, his skin glowed with life and his spine was long and straight. It was an unusual temple occupied by only Long Pu and his assistant as well as an extensive herb garden. In the morning I watched him pull out weeds and collect herbs. Then he would disappear into the laboratory where he kept magical me
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In honor of the Erawan Shrine and the victims of the bombing attack on August 17th, 2015 I write this blog post. My heart is with you all. Anyone who has been to Bangkok has seen it, and now anyone who reads the news has too. If it were a pin on a magical Google map, it would be a large sparkling gold dot that says: “Make your wish here”. The Erawan Shrine is a little piece of heaven located in the central shopping district of Bangko
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For a large part of the world, the solstice on June 21st marks the beginning of the summer season. During the summer, the sun dominates the sky and our hearts easily burst open. It is a time of devotion, of play and love. The ruling element of this period is fire and its messenger is smoke. In the spirit house tradition a primary medium used to carry messages of the heart to the astral world is incense. The power of incense can be likened to the
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