One of the lovely aspects of life on Skye is the accessibility of the natural beauty that surrounds us. I have already admitted that winter is not my preferred season, lacking life, colour, light, vibrancy and the flourishing of all plant life. Having said that there are times, even in the shortest days of winter […]
There was nothing my dear mother loved better than a good murder mystery. Indeed, she had read so many in her time that, whenever she got a handful of books from the library, she would begin at the end. If the ending seemed to satisfy her, she would go ahead and read it, even if she recognised that she read it […]
I’ve been absent from the blog for a few weeks now, not because of anything other than that I feel drawn to silence. I’ve had no inspiration to write, but simply to sit. Of course, I’ve not been literally ‘sitting’ all the time but that is merely the nearest analogy I can find to reflect […]
Thomas Merton said, in one of his numerous journals, that it’s essential to experience all the times and moods of the place you inhabit and that it was almost the first and most essential element of living a truly spiritual life. One of the features of living on the Isle of Skye in the Inner […]
The quiet of the many months of forced retreat have done me much good and somehow, I know I’m not alone in feeling that. The last thing I want to do is to make light of this awful virus which has claimed so many lives and left others with long term associated problems. But tragedies […]
Something that’s been on the minds of just about everyone recently, is just how did the world become so polarised in recent years like almost exactly 50/50? And how do we attempt to integrate it? If it’s a cosmic joke it’s surely a really good one because it’s really gripping our attention. Firstly, we have […]
So, everyone knows that polarisation has been growing for decades online but now it’s at fever pitch everywhere. Multi-polar culture wars, tribalism, conspiracy theories, social media filter bubbles skewing your news feed, it almost seems like the best thing you can do to raise your consciousness is just to come off social media altogether. And […]
As an old friend reminded me recently by letter, our high school motto was Aeterna Non Caduca, translated as ‘I live not for time but for eternity’. Back then with the invincibility of youth on our side, and life stretching out before us, we gave but passing thought to such things. No doubt most of […]
In an online group recently, someone shared that he was getting mightily fed up of wanting to pick fights with other people because they didn’t seem to be living in the real world. The inference was that only he was living in the real world I suppose. He made me smile. Firstly, it strikes me […]
We are all longing, I think, for a politics that transcends left and right, a new science that embraces the interior and the exterior, and a new spirituality that recognises the universal nature of spiritual experience. I wrote a few days ago on Integral Stages, meticulously mapped by Ken Wilber, and based on empirical research […]
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