OK - you are sitting somewhere catching up on this stuff, but should you be doing something else? (Yes, anything but this they think). I...

All systems go today as we are in Phase 3. Yippee. I went out in the car to undertakes some tasks, but failed abysmally as both people I...

Rabindranath Tagore Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Plato A philosopher...

Stan Grof is mentioned elsewhere on the site. I wasn´t totally hooked on everything he wrote, but some interesting quotes on death and...

Fast brain, fast mouth, no filter. Probably the definition of a smart-ass, and pretty much sums up my life from a very early age -...

A lot of the statements from Nisargadatta Maharaj relate to memory and the problems that arise from memories. I originally started...

Hong-Sau I have found this to be one of the best "instant" meditatoo techniques I have come across Hong-Sau’s three components of...

All this balloney about "cultural appropriation" really gets on my t**s nerves (well, no surprise in that then?) as just about everything...

Most of the time, I seem to find most of my interesting insects in, or around, the pool. Yesterday I rescued what I thought was a moth...

The title is intended to suggest that I have, at last, managed to get our TIE cards - thank heavens for that. What we have now is almost...

I have a folder of “philosophy” notes going back more than 40 years and I started re-reading it yesterday. I was actually surprised to...

Karl Marx is quoted as having said "Religion is ... the opium of the people." Francis Bacon, however, was of the view that "A little...

I am rarely contentious in this diary - I have views which are probably too radical to put down these days - but basically I am a child...

I have always resented being brought up a Christian. Even without being a catholic, the whole heaven and hell things is indelibly...

Talking on the ´phone to an old friend who is one of the few people I know who is actually interested in religion / spirituality /...

A Christmas "tradition" which I have tried on a couple of (disastrous) occasions, is the trip to the local for a couple of pints before...

Went to my first Buddhist "retreat" at the Benalmadena stupa over the weekend and it was totally Ying / Yang as you´d expect. First...

Private EV Shirt - Hertfordshire Regiment Watching the television tonight as they "commemorated" the start of the 1st World War, but I...

I started getting interested in comparative religion when I was in my teens - eventually settling on Taoism as being the closest to what...