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‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 2

11th February 2021

As we saw in Part 1, in 1914 and again in 1939, millions of men and women welcomed war. Arnold Ridley and his pals did make this choice, but in reality the choice had been →

Cogitations

‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 1

9th February 2021

The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. →

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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 →

Cogitations

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 →

Cogitations

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 →

Cogitations

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 – →

Cogitations

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 →

Cogitations

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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