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Media Bias, Activism And Meditation – Secular Buddhist Network Interview With David Edwards

13th January 2021

David Edwards is co-editor of UK-based media watch site Media Lens and author of several books including ‘Free to be Human’, ‘The Compassionate Revolution’ and ‘Propaganda Blitz’. The following interview was conducted on email and completed 18 →

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Sexual Alchemy – Part 2: ‘Is It Something To Yield To Or Be Overcome?’

8th June 2020

Halfway through the first concert of The The’s ‘Comeback Special’ tour at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2018, singer-songwriter Matt Johnson took to the stage alone with his acoustic guitar and sang, ‘True Happiness →

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Sexual Alchemy – Part 1: Love, Lust And The Head-Trapped Left

2nd June 2020

An Englishman never quite gets over the embarrassment of having a body. There he is, a perfectly respectable, civilised head, required to hug and be kissed by relatives, to dance (randomly jerking arms and legs →

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Meditation In An Age Of Cataclysms

22nd April 2020

If consciousness is an ocean, thoughts are waves that can be churned into vast storms. Have you ever woken in the wee small hours, adrift on your tiny raft of awareness, to find yourself confronted →

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The Christmas Card – A Tale Of Mystical Mischief

20th December 2019

Dan and Daisy were dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones their parents used to know. And so it came to pass, courtesy of a new-fangled loop in the jet stream that shoved →

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Imperial Ambition – Expanding Selves, Shrinking Planet

21st November 2019

Awareness is real. Even if the whole world is a dream, the awareness perceiving the dream is real. There is awareness, therefore I am. I am aware of thought, therefore I am not thought – →

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Human Alchemy – Field Notes On Watching Emotions

30th May 2019

Incident On The 17:11 From Victoria ‘Twas the night before Christmas. I’m heading back to the family home and enjoying a rare taste of my old life among the corporate sardines on the 17:11 from →

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Curious Sources Of Humanistic Religion

22nd February 2019

Some comments so perfectly capture the blinkered naivety of corporate journalism that they remain fixed in the mind for years and decades. Twenty years ago, I was leafing through a copy of the Guardian when →

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Follow Your Bliss – A Follow-Up

30th November 2018

‘Advice I Wish I’d Had’ Last February, I responded on Twitter to a tweet from The Times urging young journalists to apply for the Anthony Howard Award. Lucky winners could spend a year writing about →

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To Do Or To Be? – The Sixth Filter

27th September 2018

Part 1 – Turning Outside Some 250,000 miles later, having spent 20 minutes waiting for the other guy to get down the ladder, Buzz Aldrin became the second person to walk on the moon, July →

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