What has gardening got to do with self-awareness? And do we garden Nature, or does Nature garden us? These are some of the questions raised in a book by the permaculture expert Alison Ensor. We are part of nature, not above it, she insists. In our JB Blog we explore links between our sense of
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This is a post that asks – Does a Narcissist KNOW he’s a Narcissist? It’s about the Awareness or rather Un-Awareness of Donald Trump. It was written by someone who feels threatened by the vindictiveness of Trump and his big tech allies, so I am cited as the author though this piece is not by
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One day, in 1950, at lunch in the engine room of the Manhattan project, Enrico Fermi, a luminary of that intellectual powerhouse, asked the question “Where is everyone?” (or words to that effect – accounts vary). His fellow physicists understood what he meant. “Given the size and age of the observable universe, why have we
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This article considers the Japanese Honour Code known as Bushido: its history, perversion, and modern legacy. Many people talk about Bushido without fully appreciating or even understanding its true meaning. Some think it started in or just before World War Two as blind obedience to the Emperor and the promise of victory to Japan, or
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Joseph Campbell, in his seminal book, The Hero’s Journey, explains that one such heroic quest is into the underworld (what the Irish call ‘the otherworld’), the hero returning with a boon for his or her community. The title of the book captures this exactly, for Jill Bolte Taylor (pronounced Boll-tee) slipped into this other world,
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The ironic typography of the book title’s upper-case lettering, SILENCE ‘shouting’ even louder (see the book cover), is the first clue to this startlingly different approach to the subject of silence. It’s a sign of our times that so many books have been written about it. For many of those authors it’s about a pursuit
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Goethe’s character Faust is a potent symbol of Everyman in our modern hi-tech wonderland. If we have the money, we can have almost anything we desire delivered to our door the next day. Does that make us happy? Does that make us good? Does that make our world safe? This may be the most eccentric
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I followed my usual practice of reading the contents first – and the introduction at the end. I am glad I postponed the personal intro, because this is a rare Christian book which can make good sense to people of any faith or none. In it the author describes her life experience through the lens
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The world you live in is created, millisecond by millisecond, in technicolour virtual reality, by the most complex parallel biocomputer in the universe. But it is just a guess. Admittedly, it’s a very good guess. It should be, for that guess is based on all your current awareness, your personal experiences, the experiences of your
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What do we make of the primitive religions described in The Golden Bough in the 21st Century? It’s an amazing work of late Victorian anthropology examining ancient myths and fertility rituals all over the world. And it shows how some of them were the roots that became part of Judaism and Christianity. All these rituals
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