Yes, I totally agree. I would definitely use overnight rail if it was available.
This year we've grown an extraordinary number of herbs, tomatoes and lettuces using only compost from our kitchen waste, bringing down supermarket visits markedly . Fortunately we live in an attractive suburb and can have inspirational walks daily from ...
Reminded of the Buddha's story of a person wounded by an arrow. A doctor, on the verge of removing the arrow was asked by the stricken person : "wait: before you pull it out I want to know what your qualifications are and where you got your degree; what ...
The terms SBNR (spiritual but not religious) and “spiritual atheists” are commonplace these days indicating the persistent belief among many that there’s a dimension to us that is self-sacrificing rather than self-seeking, that there is a mode of fruitful ...
Stopping dialysis treatment is a known method of passive euthanasia, - no different to withdrawing life support as in the case of persons nearing their end and happy to call it quits. For the elderly continuing dialysis can become a severe burden as I ...
Diagnosed with kidney failure in 2011 my health declined steadily over the next five years until 2016 when I commenced dialysis with kidney function at 6%. A range of symptoms (too numerous and boring to mention) had made life pretty intolerable. ...
With widespread bullying in schools, the workplace and (even!) parliament one wonders how far just 15% of us practicing the kindness urged by our PM at inauguration would go towards healing the mental health of our nation. Certainly a lot cheaper.
Medialens has consistently, convincingly and exhaustively exposed The Guardian journalists over the past ten years.
"Ultimately, no one should have the right to determine another’s quality or length of life; that choice belongs to each of us, individually." Here's an over-simplification: Pro- says "I grant you the dignity of making your own decision regarding the end ...
For the week following the massacre we got there – doing the kindness the PM urged long before she or any of us envisioned the dire event that would bring the outpouring of love and caring to birth in volumes rarely witnessed. I wrote some weeks ago about ...
We must look after her - a consummately valuable being at a time of crisis both planetary and local. Best way is to actively engage in kindness her word and outreach not only in the weeks ahead but always as the emerging mode of being a Kiwi.
"Consciousness is the foundation of reality" Esoteric writers (Steiner, Bailey) posit an abstract mind as well - one that deals in symbols and meaning lying behind phenomena, including self-generated ones. The abstract mind gains in appeal as one grows ...
Michael Leunig’s whimsical animation “How to get there” reflects the understanding that “there is here,” that landmarks gained merely open further enticements, that for a being possessed of a mind that can reflect on infinity “there” cannot be more than a ...
"In my experience when help is offered and accepted two gain. " In my experience too. And I wholly agree with Robert's kindness to all life forms on earth as well.
Alive today Karl Linnaeus (1707 -1778) would do well finding another name for earth’s top hominid, for what kind of wisdom would have Homo sapiens persisting in wholly unsustainable lifestyles and the slaughter of his own kind by the million? Yet amongst ...
I meant cash but sure, include the crop :)
A great article! The tired old mantra 'economic growth' is synonymous with ever-spiralling means to purchase the myriad items we have been misled to believe constitute good living. Brain Science 101 emphasizes we all have the capacity to explore/uncover ...
Sure Robert, the "shared metanoia" has been visioned, - as long ago as the fifties (de Chardin) and in esoteric traditions where dedicated adherents look towards group initiation. Metanoia, metamorphosis, metaphysics indicate the veracity of change/...
“Metanoia” – 'a transformative change of heart' is one definition. Many of us have changes of heart, sometimes on a week-to-week basis. Transformative change is a lot rarer, often following extreme illness (and perhaps near-death experience), religious ...
'Transcendence, rebirth, awakening, samahdi , enlightenment all point to the renewed and longed for state' "That’s taking time out of the real world, good up to a point, but the spirit needs practical application when you come back to earth." Agreed; You ...
"I don’t go with too much other-mindedness. I have found in some people that I have met that they are up on ways to be spiritual etc. but in their dealings with actual people they are not straight and true. " In a world of widespread deception surely true ...
Sure. de Chardin described the filling by a species of a niche to reach saturation, at which point the potential for a breakthrough is heightened. Some will seek out new habitats where the adapted will survive and where conditions may favour mutations ...
The ecospirituality of Findhorn has expanded enormously since its inception in 1962. (I spent a happy fortnight there in '77 collecting sea-weed for their compost bins!) https://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/ Teilhard de Chardin (The Phenomenon of Man) coined...
How will generation zero look after themselves?
Idealists, visionaries, humanitarians, altruists : these are needed in high number at this time of planetary turmoil. Many admire the qualities embraced by them yet they cannot be personally evoked at a whim or a wish. There’s an element of consciousness ...
Who knows the answers?
Aye Robert....I'd meant to include Emerson's much loved "life is a journey not a destination" which underlines there is no "there". Transitions are valid "moments" and we find ourselves in the turbulence of rediscovering/re-inventing/re-pitching whom we ...
The competitive spirit, intrinsic to organic life forms has for decades reached unwholesome proportions amongst humans via drugs and match fixing in sport and as obscene imbalance of wealth. Sensing the futility of ceaseless one-up-man ship many are ...
A Universal Creativity Initiative will flow naturally from UBI. We are at our best when putting personal talent to work. It is no coincidence that world-wide rehabilitation programs for offenders and addicts are invariably grounded in creativity, - ...
Spot on, Grey. Emerging amongst many today is the perception that evolution has a subtler card to play - not in terms of mutated genetic forms but as altered consciousness. The principle of natural selection remains unchanged: survival and propagation of ...
No, creativity is not confined to artists. Creativity has many faces; for the politically inclined imaginative deployment of fresh ways of inclusive government; for educators new methods of nourishing emerging talent; for financiers equitable ways of ...
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