Just Aware

When I was bright young computer spark, in the eighties, in the early days of “Not so super intelligence” we were building expert systems, which ...

An outstanding new book by Angie Hobbs, Why Plato Matters Now, shows the central importance of this thinker from almost two and half thousand years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

I followed my usual practice of reading the contents first – and the introduction at the end. I am glad I postponed the personal intro, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a book published in 2009 by the polymath psychiatrist ...

We all of us have a philosophy, whether we know it or not. It’s the way we face life, dour or hopeful, cynical or romantic. ...

Quaker Worship: Reflections and Explorations by James McCarthy This is a thoughtful consideration of Quaker meetings for worship.  It’s a new addition to the Kindlers ...

Published in 1990, this book of psychiatry sold six million copies. Mine was bought this year for £1.50 from a second-hand store, and it has ...