We all own some territory, even if it is just the small space between our ears. Lets unite all these peaceful spaces from heart to heart, mind to mind, a healthy virus to heal us all.. “Occupy and use your country. If you don’t others will” Robert Louis Stevenson In…
A challenge to the free press
Here’s a way we can all participate in grounding the depression that’s growing within our collective Zeitgeist using the mathematics of mother nature herself. The Fibonacci sequence. Let’s attempt to stay open and creative to whatever is arising in us and then the next day we attempt to double this…
What’s happening in the world? (Think like a dentist)
Watching the American elections unfold is a bit like going to the dentist. A harsh light gets shone on what’s rotten within us or needs healing, then, hopefully, the right tooth get extracted. From my vantage point across the ocean, this time round it seemed like the wrong tooth got…
Are you flying too high or too low? (Think like a pilot)
Years ago, in my early 20s, I took flying classes and earned a PPL (private pilot’s licence). (Why? No idea, probably so I could write this story.) The first (and only) long flight I piloted was a cross country exam from a gravel air strip near Johannesburg to an airstrip…
Is God mad? On seeing the flaw in the mirror
The flaw in all mirrors is that everything gets reversed. There’s only one of us here and lots of very wonky mirrors to keep things interesting. How to see beyond the floor/flaw? Reverse engineering? Byron Katie is the master teacher of this technique. Great eye-opening example here: He won’t forgive…
I of storm – a new, more fluid, model of the psyche?
Perhaps it is time for a new more fluid model of the human psyche based on the work of medical doctors turned mystics. Could it be that the human psyche is structured much like the eye of a hurricane/ tropical storm? The following model is arrived at by overlaying several…
Pain in the world – how can you help?
The German word for compassion is Mitgefefühl (to feel with) or Mitleid (to suffer with) but this could be a catastrophe for us or the world in general unless we do it consciously. Read more about this in Living Now Magazine – December 2015. (If you only have time for…