A celebration of the Good Life, High Art, Human Excellence and Culture
An experience of nothing is a very sought-after meditative discipline in the Buddhist community, usually it takes a long time, years in fact for a Buddhist practitioner to attain the Continue Reading
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting Continue Reading
Nihilists negate any sense of personal meaning as illusory, this might sound pessimistic but it doesn’t have to be. The mind that makes a judgement of pessimism is also capable Continue Reading
Philosophy mainly deals with the objective world, mysticism, however, is a subjective experience of man’s relationship with God that seeks to diminish the sense of isolation and separation from God Continue Reading
One of the things that strike you when you read Nietzsche is that he considered a good life to be one that is dedicated to personal gain. ‘Personal Gain,’ is Continue Reading
It’s been a tough year in more ways than one for many people, many countries around the world have endured repeated lockdowns and economic harm as a result of the Continue Reading
Karma cannot be escaped. Karma just simply means ‘your doing,’ and is not the simplistic concept of retribution and revenge that we’ve been fed in the west out of semi-ignorance Continue Reading
It’s easy to find comfort in the solid types of matter that we find around us but it’s best not to get too attached. One day it will belong to Continue Reading
The conclusions of many mystics since time began is that a vast awareness pervades all of space and time, it inhabits the space between matter, between atoms and their constituent Continue Reading
As every good existentialist knows, you are born an individual with your own innate likes and dislikes, prejudices and opinions. Very few of us, however, stop to consider that none Continue Reading
“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men Continue Reading
Of all of the questions that philosophers commonly get asked this one keeps on coming up time after time, after time. People ask ‘why is there suffering in the universe?’ Continue Reading
Mind Vs Matter There are two sides to reality, the objective side of atoms, molecules, rocks, trees, people, places and events vs the subjective experience of the mind. Matter and Continue Reading
I’ve thought long and hard on this for a very long time, years, in fact, ploughing my way through the moral maze of intent, unintended consequence and much, much more Continue Reading
The word oppression is a ‘hot potato,’ that’s frequently batted back and forth between the political left and right like a worn-out tennis ball, leading to some highly charged and Continue Reading
Yes, mysticism is real, a tiny fraction of people in all places and at all times have wanted to experience union with whatever it was that they perceived to be Continue Reading
I’m a middle-aged man who is also quite cynical, that’s why I was disgusted to recently see a TV advertisement by a cancer care charity that focused heavily on the Continue Reading
it’s not possible to know anything you can’t conceive of, God in the Judeo/Christian sense is beyond human conception, so you can’t know God. You can only know aspects of Continue Reading