The Waterfall The year was 1910 and in Japan a young man called Tempu Nakamura was facing his own death. It was not the first time. As a...

This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...

This article was started before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic started to sweep across the world in January 2020. The dynamics behind the spread...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Einstein It is said that...

Always to seek for wider, deeper, transcendental experiences is a form of escape from the actual reality of "what is", which is...

There is never anywhere to go but in. - Doris Lessing In the 1960s a psychiatrist working for the Indian Health Service in North America...

There is no magic formula, it's just doing the basic things much better than anybody else. - Joachim Low Be grateful for your mind weeds...

Murky water is turbid; let it settle and it clears. - Lui Yiming, Awakening to the Tao This may be a familiar scenario: You're feeling in...

The following talk was given at the 2018 Mental Wealth Festival organized by the City Lit Institute and which took place at the National...

Have you ever wondered why, when we talk about reality, we rarely mean something good? 'Real life', for example, usually implies...

The following is from a talk I gave at the Mother Bear event organized by the Brun Bear Foundation on the subject of work-life...

The news we hear is full of grief for that future, but the real news inside here is there's no news at all - Rumi How often have I - in a...

"What we ordinarily call "reality" is merely that slice of total fact which our biological equipment, our linguistic heritage and our...

February 1st is 'Time to Talk' day, a project by the Time-to-Change organisation to get people talking about mental health issues, to...

"It should be obvious that the solution to our ecological crisis and our social and economic problems are the same thing. We harmonise...

'When we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.' -...

Here is a common scenario: You see a piece of chocolate. You like chocolate, but you know you shouldn't eat too much. After some internal...

At a recent presentation one of the participants raised the issue of trauma. They challenged that it was very well to say that our mental...

In the film The Matrix (1999) the character of Thomas 'Neo' Anderson (Keanu Reeves) inhabits a world familiar to most of us: busy, urban,...