Questions of our Time 4 – A Time for Personal Responsibility?

By |2020-05-31T13:37:09+01:00May 31st, 2020|Essays|

A Time for Personal Responsibility? 'The individual has to live in humanity as well as humanity in the individual’ Sri Aurobindo In the gnostic Gospel of Thomas, it is written that Jesus pronounced: ‘There is light within a man of light, and it lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, there [...]

Questions of our Time 3 – Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves?

By |2020-05-13T16:37:14+01:00May 13th, 2020|Essays|

Time Now to Get Back to Ourselves? ‘And the Old Ones say: look outward seriously look inward intently look outward carefully look inward diligently look outward respectfully look inward humbly’ Jack Forbes   As human beings we seek the beautiful, and this gives us joy. But our lives have made everything complicated. We make ourselves [...]

Questions of our Time 2 – To Fear or Not to Fear?

By |2020-04-27T16:17:40+01:00April 27th, 2020|Essays|

‘I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will [...]

Questions of our Time 1 – To Have or To Be?

By |2020-04-05T10:25:32+01:00April 5th, 2020|Essays|

 ‘the physical survival of the human race depends on a radical change of the human heart.' Erich Fromm The German-born humanistic philosopher and social psychologist Erich Fromm spent most of his working life trying to understand the human condition – and its predicament. He came to the conclusion that only a fundamental change in [...]

Consensus Reality Meltdown 4 – The Reset Button

By |2020-03-30T18:40:51+01:00March 27th, 2020|Blog, Essays|

The Reset Button   ‘We are dreaming a symbolic world, only briefly waking to what is real’ Arthur Deikman   We thought our reality was stable – a linear progression of events that had order and logic. Most people in modern societies were born into conditions of stability and security that created bubbles of contentment [...]

Consensus Reality Meltdown 3 – Self-Fulfilling Memes

By |2020-03-26T18:16:08+01:00March 26th, 2020|Blog, Essays|

It is time to acknowledge that the bubble of perception that forms one’s reality is not a solid structure. It is fluid and continuously shifting, readapting, and, from time to time, it wobbles. The information and inputs we receive, and process, affects our sense of reality. Recently, this consensus reality bubble that most people [...]

Consensus Reality Meltdown 2 – The Erosion of Perception

By |2020-03-25T13:44:07+01:00March 17th, 2020|Blog, Essays|

The Erosion of Perception   ‘Not the body but the soul becomes the subject of techno-social domination.’ Franco Berardi Modern technological societies are creeping more and more into a form of abstraction. This has been officially labelled as the ‘erosion of the collective perception of objective facts.’ I call it the continuation of the [...]

A Metaphysical Malaise?

By |2020-01-23T17:54:49+01:00January 23rd, 2020|Essays|

‘The real tragedy of our time lies not so much in the unprecedented external events themselves as in the unprecedented ethical destitution and spiritual infirmity which they glaringly reveal.’ Paul Brunton   There is little doubt that we are living in an age of extreme contradictions where opposing trends appear to exist side by side. It [...]

Year Ahead 2020: A Consensus Reality Meltdown (CRM)

By |2020-03-17T13:44:02+01:00January 6th, 2020|Blog, Essays|

The year ahead into 2020 will continue a process that has already begun and which we are seeing unfolding around us across the globe. Many of us are asking - is reality broken? It almost seems so. Reality – whatever that is or was – has been gradually retreating behind a spectacle of make-believe. One result [...]

The Artificial Extension of Childhood

By |2019-12-06T10:17:47+01:00December 6th, 2019|Essays|

The early years of childhood are our formative years where the hearts and minds of young souls are nurtured and developed. It is also the period of compulsory schooling, a form of social and informational programming that reaches us early before we can become fully formed adults. What we understand today as ‘modern’ forms of [...]

Jung & the Invasion of the Collective Mind

By |2019-11-21T12:24:46+01:00November 21st, 2019|Essays|

The question we are confronted with is a collective one, and it concerns us all. Why are so many of us, our fellow humans, behaving so badly? And not only badly, but in a way that is detrimental to our own well-being. It would seem more than strange, verging on the insane, that any creature [...]

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