I am using the term philosophy in its old sense of ‘love of wisdom’, not the arid stuff that provides the content of many so-called philosophy books.

Articles

Science and Spirituality – Complementary or Contradictory?

I wrote this essay in 2002. It still seems largely valid, although some of the references now appear dated.

Posts

The following lists posts in the categories of philosophy, psychology, spirituality, religion, science, astrology, arts.

• A Reflection on ‘Amor Fati’ (10/11/2021)
• Fontevraud, Royal Abbey (10/8/2021)
• Your Restless Mind (9/30/2021)
• Our Minds Limit Science (8/20/2021)
• Thomas Cromwell (8/4/2021)
• A question of balance? (7/30/2021)
• Billionaire man (7/29/2021)
• Are we insane? (7/18/2021)
• If we don’t love the Earth (7/11/2021)
• Saint Richard Whiting (6/22/2021)
• Indigenous Peoples Day, lessons in environmental stewardship and more (6/21/2021)
• Dissolution (6/19/2021)
• An Exploration of Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” (6/7/2021)
• None of this is now (5/19/2021)
• Spiritual science (5/7/2021)
• Where you stand (5/4/2021)
• Diaphaneity: Unfolding the Wings of Perception (4/30/2021)
• Everything Comes from your Depths (4/28/2021)
• The Power of Systems Thinking: Beyond the Reductionist Mindset (4/16/2021)
• Dark Regions of The Country of The Mind (4/10/2021)
• Beyond the Res Cogitans (4/8/2021)
• Entangled Life (3/16/2021)
• It Felt Love (3/15/2021)
• Mystical scientists (3/5/2021)
• Some Thoughts on Stillness (3/2/2021)
• Creativity and Humour (3/2/2021)
• The Fall (2/16/2021)
• Galileo’s Error? (1/26/2021)
• Hope reprise (1/25/2021)
• New Renaissance vision – 25 years on (1/23/2021)
• Reality is Now the Enemy! (1/11/2021)
• Nationalism is a psychological aberration (12/23/2020)
• What is Philosophy for? (12/22/2020)
• Ethics reduced to economics? (12/12/2020)
• The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship (12/11/2020)
• New humanity rising (12/4/2020)
• Agonism (12/3/2020)
• Making the Human Race Whole (11/30/2020)
• Psychology and Astrology Models (11/19/2020)
• Hope in Hell (11/18/2020)
• Give us back the dark (10/24/2020)
• Could the goodies lose? (10/8/2020)
• Irredeemable? (10/6/2020)
• Which Jesus? (8/28/2020)
• Reincarnation (8/27/2020)
• Pettiness (8/25/2020)
• Inside out (8/10/2020)
• Acceptance (7/15/2020)
• Another favourite place (7/4/2020)
• Presence (6/23/2020)
• Our Story (6/11/2020)
• Polarity – Balance and Synthesis (5/4/2020)
• Covid-19 – why now? (4/24/2020)
• Has neo-liberalism reached use-by date? Ayn Rand and the failure of philosophy (4/18/2020)
• Aluna (4/4/2020)
• The five freedoms (4/3/2020)
• Dalai Lama’s message (4/2/2020)
• In Tune with the Infinite (4/1/2020)
• Finding ourselves (3/25/2020)
• Rumi’s way of the heart (3/24/2020)
• Tagore Grove (3/14/2020)
• Chickens coming home (3/13/2020)
• Taking Appearance Seriously (2/25/2020)
• The coronavirus outbreak – the economic impact (2/23/2020)
• When the dog looks (2/19/2020)
• All about the numbers (2/6/2020)
• The benefits of reading (or studying) philosophy (2/4/2020)
• Enantiodromia (1/31/2020)
• A Berlin Wall Moment? (1/24/2020)
• Kindness, compassion, and post-truth (1/20/2020)
• God and good (1/16/2020)
• Crystallised thinking? (1/7/2020)
• Climate Stripes (12/28/2019)
• The Flip (12/14/2019)
• Kindness is key to health and happiness, and it’s free! (11/29/2019)
• The Magic of Vézelay (11/27/2019)
• The One Reality (11/26/2019)
• Action Replay (11/22/2019)
• The Modern Flat Earthers (11/21/2019)
• Think before you post. (11/18/2019)
• Making the Human Race Whole (11/13/2019)
• Power of Words (11/7/2019)
• The Magic of Psychosynthesis (11/1/2019)
• Multiple Me’s? (10/30/2019)
• The Big Egos (10/9/2019)
• Ever Flowing (9/18/2019)
• Sustainability and Evolution (7/10/2019)
• Hope and Fear (6/26/2019)
• Time of Crisis (6/21/2019)
• The Weight of Our Sins (5/30/2019)
• Climate Emergency (5/28/2019)
• Thrive (5/27/2019)
• Where is the wisdom we have lost? (5/26/2019)
• Humanity’s biggest own goals (5/25/2019)
• The Art of Life (5/20/2019)
• Looking at aging with the glass half full (5/13/2019)
• Pluto might be a planet again. Or not. (5/8/2019)
• The glass IS half full (5/3/2019)
• The Water Will Come (4/16/2019)
• Notre Dame de Paris (4/15/2019)