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…
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…