Climate change, the Beatles and mass hysteria
It’s highly prescient and current. We’re in a groove reminiscent of Tulip mania, the South Sea Bubble, Y2K and the other mass hysteria that periodically and sequentially grip the human race. latterly we have the help/hindrance of a communications network that relays the minutest happening in the most isolated and distant place as soon as [...]
Integrity, Iraq and feeling slightly embarrassed
There are several qualities that I prize above all others. One of these is integrity. Personal integrity and respect for the integrity of others. Within each of us there is an internal blueprint that we consciously develop or semiconsciously absorb. At the periphery there are those for whom sublimation is an unconscious process and these [...]
Exotic disorders and the pursuit of happiness
For my sins I work some of the time with kids who present with severe emotional and behavioural disorders. The area is something of a minefield because different schools of thought exist regarding how to manage young people with these conditions that have exotic acronyms like ODD or ADHD or any number of esoterically named [...]
Blurb for the back cover of MoH
Peter Levine grew up in England in a setting that ticked all the wrong boxes. His upbringing left him with far more questions than answers and he began a lifelong quest to find meaning that resonated with his experiences. His search took him all over the world and he sought out and studied under teachers, [...]
Cycles, spirits and requirements
Something is building again. There are cycles of growth within us all, the various components of what we are experience cycles of diminishment and embellishment. Things grow, things decline. We exist in a never still state. Matters pass, I would call these concentrates of energy essential qualities. They represent pure states in the way that [...]
In the beginning
I’m sitting on something that is not for me yet it is mine only in so much as it is mine to give away. I have to give it away because if I don’t I can’t keep it, if I don’t keep it then it will be lost to me forever so I have to [...]
Practicing my schtick 3
I travelled extensively, studied with various teachers and masters and learned an approach to living that began to fill some of the gaps in my education. Some of the mystery and enigma lifted, to be replaced by an even greater enigma and mystery, but one that lead somewhere, one with a purpose and a cohesive [...]
The world’s second funniest joke, allegedly
“Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes woke Watson up and said: “Watson, look up at the stars and tell me, what do you see?” Watson replied: “I see millions and millions of stars.” Holmes [...]
Elementals
I lived in Crete and was studying under a teacher whom I had sought out. Each evening when my work for the day was finished I had a spot by the sea where I would go to watch the sun sink beyond the horizon. I was fascinated by a huge flock of birds that would [...]