We Are the ‘New Normal’ — Not the ‘New Age’

By |2018-01-03T17:55:35+01:00September 28th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

There is an old folktale that tells of the wise fool who arrives at the door of the king's castle asking for entry. He is immediately told by the guard that the king's decree is for anyone who tells a lie to be hanged. Then, upon asking for his destination, the wise fool replies, "I [...]

Holding It All Together – Integrity & our Sense of Self

By |2018-01-03T17:55:35+01:00September 3rd, 2012|Blog, Essays|

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you… … Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it (Rudyard Kipling – ‘If’)  The above lines - taken from Rudyard Kipling’s poem If - serves to remind us that we have gained the Earth, our sense [...]

Money Creation & the Illusion of Wealth

By |2018-01-03T17:55:37+01:00June 25th, 2012|Essays|

The incumbent global financial system is in dire straits and is a behemoth waiting to implode.  It is intrinsically unsustainable with its labyrinthine financial agreements and credit swaps. These include mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, predatory lending, derivatives and off-balance sheet financing, etc. The financial system has become an almost impossible marketplace [...]

The New Monastic Individuals

By |2018-01-03T17:55:38+01:00June 25th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

The world is awash with grand announcements of spiritual rebirth, Armageddon scenarios, and self-help commercialism that are forming a global skin that circumscribes our entire mental world. Political theorist Benjamin Barber has noted that the commercialism behind the global takeover of the mental sphere amounts to a kind of "default totalitarianism." If we are not [...]

Changing the Game-Play – time to feel empowered

By |2018-01-03T17:55:38+01:00June 19th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

'If you never change your mind, why have one?' – Edward de Bono There is a story that is told about a wandering stranger who once stopped a king in the street. Furious, the king shouted, ‘How dare you, a man of little worth, interrupt the progress of your sovereign?’ The stranger answered: ‘Can you [...]

Going the Right Way in the Wrong Direction – the art of thinking for ourselves

By |2018-01-03T17:55:38+01:00June 6th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

As celebrated thinker Edward de Bono notes: ‘If everyone is going in the same direction, then anyone who is going in a different direction is “wrong”. The other direction might be better – but it is still wrong.’ Such is the powerful pull of social conformity. People cannot be fully trusted to say and do [...]

Clipped & Trimmed: the conformity of human perceptions

By |2018-01-03T17:55:38+01:00May 28th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

There is a famous 13th Century Persian poem that tells the story of an old woman whom upon encountering an eagle on her window sill captures it for she has never seen an eagle before. The old woman looks at the strange bird and finally says ‘what a funny-looking pigeon’! She then proceeds to clip [...]

The Hyper-Reality of Modern Living

By |2018-01-03T17:55:40+01:00May 4th, 2012|Blog, Essays|

The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges once famously wrote of a great Empire that created a map that was so detailed it was as large as the Empire itself. The actual map itself grew and decayed as the Empire itself conquered or lost territory. When the Empire finally crumbled, all that remained was the map. [...]

Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising

By |2018-01-03T17:55:40+01:00May 4th, 2012|Essays|

The manufacturing of consentis endemic within modern societies. Throughout history, the need to "persuade and influence" has always been manipulated by those people in power as a means to maintain authority and legitimacy. In more recent years, the overall manipulation of the mass public mind has become less about making speeches and more about becoming [...]

Grabbing Hold of Reality: Engaging Energetically With Our Lives

By |2018-01-03T17:55:40+01:00April 19th, 2012|Essays|

These days many of us feel as if we are drowning in information. Is our world not awash in a new fabric of communications, most of it digital? Google Chairman Eric Schmidt famously said by 2010-11 the human race was generating as much information every two days than it had from the very beginning of [...]

The Way Ahead: Changing Our Internal Narratives

By |2018-01-03T17:55:41+01:00April 12th, 2012|Essays|

In a recent essay -- "2012-2020: Where Mythologies Clash" -- I wrote of how the decade ahead will be a testing time as it marks the peak clash between two mythologies. Or, rather, two defining eras. I wrote of how the "old" system, which is still incumbent, reflects a vertical top-down structure that is heavily [...]

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