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The Fear Not to Be

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the theologian Paul Tillich’s famous book, The Courage to Be. Widely read in the days when an educated public read books, it is long forgotten. In it, Tillich surveys the history of anxiety and fear and

Slow Boil

Everyone knows by now the analogy often tossed about these days describing a frog in a pot of water on a stove. The heat is turned up so slowly that the frog has no idea that if he (or she) doesn’t jump out he will be boiled alive. Seems

China: Imprisoned Tibetan Monk’s Health in Peril

(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately and unconditionally release the imprisoned Tibetan monk and religious philosopher Go Sherab Gyatso, Human Rights Watch said today.

Nostalgic for the Future

Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated with treacly sentimentality, defeatism, and spurious spiritual inclinations. Homer, Vergil, Dante, the Biblical writers, and their ilk would demur, of course, but they have been dead for a few years, so progress’

Are You Tired of Being Alone? Consider These 8 Uncomfortable Truths

As we’ve covered many times before, being alone and being lonely are two different things.

Communing with Camus in 2022

Albert Camus, Michel y Jeannine Gallimard by Antonio Marín Segovia (source) The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply.

The Age of Intolerance: Cancel Culture’s War on Free Speech

“Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.” George Carlin Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that is little more than fascism disguised as tolerance—has shifted us into an Age of Intolerance, policed by techno-censors, social media

Harmless Untruths

In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the deadpan realist from the Midwest–the 20th century’s Mark Twain–delivers an instructive review of the way in which Americans hold scientists in exceedingly high esteem—and the perils therein. One of his characters is scientist Felix Hoenikker. Hoenikker

10 Sobering Life Lessons to Learn from Adversity

Life is not fair, nor is it easy.

The Covid narrative is insane and illogical…and maybe that’s no accident Maybe forcing people to believe your lies, even after you admit you’re lying, is the purest form of power.

“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.

5 Philosophical Questions That Will Blow Your Mind

Some philosophical questions are so difficult you could tie yourself up in mental knots trying to understand them.

When Force Meets Power: The Inevitable Collapse of the New World Order

When the famous quantum theorist, David Bohm, read Jiddu Krishnamurti’s “The First and Last Freedom”, he was blown away by his insight and knowledge regarding the phenomenon of the observer and the observed. Despite having no university-level training, much less formal education in the sciences, Krishnamurti had, through his

AUDIO: Misrepresenting Humanity on a Grand Scale

Vanessa Beeley sits down with researcher, economic reform activist, free speech advocate & soul singer Ian Jenkins, to discuss the worst of the impact of Covid-19 lockdown on the most vulnerable of society. Governments do not care about these marginalised communities and the measures imposed upon them do nothing to alleviate

Misrepresenting Humanity on a Grand Scale

Vanessa Beeley sits down with researcher, economic reform activist, free speech advocate & soul singer Ian Jenkins, to discuss the worst of the impact of Covid-19 lockdown on the most vulnerable of society. Governments do not care about these marginalised communities and the measures imposed upon them do nothing to alleviate