The human’s ability to screw things up and still come back for more
I’m often devastated by the mess we are capable of making of things. We turn up here, beautiful planet, Garden of Eden, all is well and then we start. Where did the rot set in? What is the provenance of the malaise that afflict us? If I were a crude man I would call it [...]
Sleepwalking into recession
The fundamental constituents of happiness or well being seem to revolve around an intrinsic stability. What we have at the moment is social instability writ large. it follows therefore that we will witness an increase in things like depression and the various co-states that accompany social instability. This is tied inextricably to finance and the [...]
The Past Is Always Better
Be honest, don’t you wish you’d lived through the sixties in Swinging London or shooting the breeze up at Haight Ashbury? What would it have been like to be there when Elvis first gyrated and sent a tsunami of shock through the sensibilities of upstanding folk throughout the world? Karl Marx, think of the effect [...]
The Feelgood Factor
What makes you feel good? Go for, if you have the option, simple things. Simple things have a cleaner feel to them. Try, if possible, to feel good about things from the natural worlds. Why? Simple, the natural worlds do not recognise credit crunches, our egos, personality or any of the other paraphernalia that constitutes [...]
The Fourth Estate
The fourth estate refers to the media in general and the printed media in particular. It is this esteemed institution that creates, drives and steers public opinion. Public opinion is a creature to be handled with care at all times. Today a man in the High Court, Robert Murat, is handed damages of some £600,000.00 [...]
Provenance
Sitting in the sun room at home I am caught by the statue of the Buddha’s head on the marble floor. There is a graceful line to the nose from the brow that the sculptor has captured with skill and finesse. I am reminded of the saying from Eliphas Levi, “Refine, all can be achieved [...]
On Time
I have always thought that my time was limited. Limited by external factors over which I had no control. I understand now that my time is limited by internal factors over which I do have control. Perception is everything. Consider the view that time is linear. It is how most of us think of it. [...]
Fear
It’s interesting for someone who lived through the strange days of the 1970s to see the fear around the world at the moment. Fear of financial difficulty. Oh dear. It makes me realise how far we have become removed from the things that really do matter in life. The dinner parties of the west have [...]
Creation is not the way, understanding is
Development. Fulfilment. Happiness. I used to wonder about the size of the Universe when I was a child. I lived in an urban sprawl, right in the middle of a seething city, where millions of people lived out their various hopes, fears and dramas. At night sometimes I would listen to the sound of industry [...]
Summertime
Summertime and the living is easy. It appears that the fish are jumping and the cotton is high. The song Summertime, paraphrased above, has the duality contained within so many of the genuine or faux spirituals. The element of an earthly travail alleviated only by the promise of a heavenly release. One of the classics [...]