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Achieving Without Trying
The following talk was given at the 2018 Mental Wealth Festival organized by the City Lit Institute and which took place at the National...
H James
Sep 13, 201813 min read


Billions of Tiny Droplets
Have you ever wondered why, when we talk about reality, we rarely mean something good? 'Real life', for example, usually implies...
H James
Sep 9, 20187 min read


Distress to Eustress
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...
H James
Aug 16, 20188 min read


Getting off the Hook
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...
H James
Apr 26, 20186 min read


Another Slice of Reality
"What we ordinarily call "reality" is merely that slice of total fact which our biological equipment, our linguistic heritage and our...
H James
Feb 10, 20187 min read


Time to Talk Day
February 1st is 'Time to Talk' day, a project by the Time-to-Change organisation to get people talking about mental health issues, to...
H James
Feb 1, 20183 min read


Work and Non-Work
"It should be obvious that the solution to our ecological crisis and our social and economic problems are the same thing. We harmonise...
H James
Nov 29, 20176 min read


The Problem Of Other People
'When we do something with a complicated mind, in relation to other things or people, or society, our activity becomes very complex.' -...
H James
Nov 8, 20177 min read


The Survival Instinct: Old Brain vs New Mind
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...
H James
Nov 3, 20177 min read


Trauma: the Living Dream
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...
H James
Sep 27, 20176 min read


Vedanta: The Matrix vs Westworld
In the film The Matrix (1999) the character of Thomas 'Neo' Anderson (Keanu Reeves) inhabits a world familiar to most of us: busy, urban,...
H James
Sep 15, 20175 min read
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