This section considers specific experiments and theses that point up aspects of how belief-systems should be modified as a result of the recent findings in science. There is a huge reservoir of information about the latest scientific developments with more coming in all the time and it is not possible to do more than touch the surface of what is available.
Introduction:
The advance of science shows us that the seat of some emotions and thinking processes are circumscribed in their ...
MEDICINE
Lourdes
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in traditional Chinese medical literature dating from the Zhou Dynasty. Three thousand years ago Zhou Lia published his findings. Youyou Tu took from them what she found relevant for a cure in the twentieth century. And if ‘Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold’ was published more recently in the Tang Dynasty of 618–907 A.D., Youyou Tu ...
In the 1970s a popular card that was often perched on office manager’s desks read: ‘LOOK ALIVE! YOU CAN BE REPLACED BY A MACHINE!’ It may have been ahead of its time.
I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffee houses
- Joseph Addison 1672-1719
To say that you love wisdom is to say that you value acquiring certain deep insights into certain abstract (and important) questions. One might, if one is lucky, just happen to acquire such insights without much effort. However, if you claim to love wisdom, then you ...
THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
Much of what is below is commonly accepted; little enough substantively speaking is done about it save in some individual cases. An overall picture of what many of us may think idly about English Law may serve to file some teeth of legal watchdogs?
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is an ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish ...
Brian Mayne has written lucidly of his spiritual journey. His life style is testimony to the efficacy of his ideas, combining as he does his work on himself with a successful business career
‘Just a few ever wonder who they really are, even fewer seriously explore the topic, and only the rarest manages the direct experience of realizing the core self. Although becoming conscious of it is a rare attainment, this ‘core self’ is accessible to all and naturally part of what we each are as ...
Patrice Van Aersel has made a detailed study of near-death or after-‘death’ experiences interviewing hundreds of people who have undergone them.
ATTITUDES OF MIND and FEELING
THAT CAN BE ENHANCED BY OCCIDENTAL MEDITATION
TRAITS, ACTUATING PRINCIPLES, PERSPECTIVES AND ATTITUDES
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The check list below ticks a few boxes about slight changes of thinking that with effort and placing emphasis on the advantages of reflection we may induce in ourselves, and which can be of value in any number of situations.
Many truths are not in their nature complex, and common sense can pierce through reams of recondite research. The intelligent ...
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate
Truth is buoyant – it will surface at some point and become obvious to all.
Chinese proverb
For Aristotle, there was a wisdom that brought people closer to divine rationality, ‘sophia’. This wisdom was for thinking about questions such as the nature of the divine, ethics or the function of the state.
William Bates
I think the subject which will be of most importance ...
I’m an ordinary bloke. So why do I think there might just be something in the ‘unseen world’ that might be ‘t/here’.
When I was five years old, I told my Nanny that we did not know how long my parents would keep us at home so we might as well make preparations to leave. It wasn’t just a stray remark. It was a profound belief that persisted up till my twenties. As a teenager my wealthy parents visited me at boarding school and, without any antecedent conversation about the subject, made me ...
Dennis Bardens was the least likely ghost chaser. He was a man with his wits about him, plugged right into the unforgiving present. He knew human nature in all its foibles. He had been a spy behind enemy lines during WW2; perhaps his ingrained suspicion of how people could behave went into the notice he hung on his front door in Horbury Mews, Kensington: ‘OUT TO LUNCH….BACK IN FIVE YEARS…PLEASE WAIT!’ His was a ready wit. He was a distinguished journalist and broadcaster – the initiator of ...
Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist whose book Your Brain is Boss draws on scientific research to show how sensible ways of living our lives can be based on, and are explained by, our biological makeup. It is a self-help manual shot through with erudition, fascinating facts and wisdom. Dr Shaw challenges many taboos, often with pithy aphorism; she for instance debunks those who would scoff at the Unseen World by pointing out: ‘The absence of evidence is not evidence of ...
