Call it what you will we are experiencing strange days.

It’s a stunning day. The sun has shone brightly, the moon is full and there is an air of anticipation. Strange things are happening in the world, earthquakes in Chile, tsunamis in the Pacific and Atlantic storms that have left scores dead in their wake in western Europe. The coldest February on record is over [...]

Schtick 4, stepping off the train to nowhere

Possibly like you, the slightly strange formative years left me with more questions than answers.
A poorly managed education system while not extinguishing the desire to learn closed down options and left them closed. The struggle was to find meaning and make sense of it all. I found myself in among millions of others, none of [...]

My god is not personal

My god is not personal. It is not a personality in the way that a monotheistic god is. Mine is the god of universal appearance, of creation and exists in all things. Its brevity is way beyond the ability of any human mind to comprehend. The keenest may make approximations or describe it by analogy [...]

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 pattern [...]