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belief, thinkers, perspectives
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Room Three
Credos
What do people actually believe? This room gathers the personal credos, spiritual perspectives, and considered beliefs of thinkers ancient and modern — ideas worth sitting with, whether you share them or not.
“Two men looked out of prison bars — one saw mud, the other stars.”
Frederick Langbridge
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
Four Pieces to Begin With
Recommended from this room
Reflection is meditation shorn of the baggage. This article gives a brief overview of what it is, how to do it, and how it can help.
In a world that prizes speed and constant motion, the pause is often overlooked.
Yet it is in stillness that ...
Complete Assemblies for Secondary Schools
ISBN 034042954 2; First Published 1988
Introduction
Here is ...
What is your favourite popular tune? Mine is an old classic, Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of ...
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Personal Credos
What’s Important to you?
An Institute of Reflection rapporteur ambushed interviewees with these questions. The impromptu interviews – each so different – about PERSONAL CREDOS illustrate a world of philosophy that fascinates people.
Papia Ghoshal has a protean talent, artist, poetess, film maker, sculptress, actress, singer and dancer and in all these fields she has acquired international renown. https://www.papiaghoshal.com
Suzi provides expert professional help for people with problems in their lives. Susie’s book SASSY GODMOTHER gives you the advice you need whispered in your ears about any of the many life situations that can upend you; fluent, companionable, filled with common sense, perceptive, compassionate. A great read or a useful Lucky Dip.
For Maurice his journey is writ large rather than a conclusion he has reached
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Credos 1
Modern Thinkers about the human condition
The furthest reaches of the mysteries surrounding some of the deep questions of life may be beyond our ken to answer at present but science is peeling back some of the outlying shrouds.
Reflection is meditation shorn of the baggage. This article gives a brief overview of what it is, how to do it, and how it can help.
She was four years old when she told her parents: "I died giving birth. I left three children and a husband in ...
It will not be “you” who chooses the next lifetime but your spirit; its location is not likely to be their top ...
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Credos 11
Mysticism & The Unseen World
Astral Travel is thought by many to be in the realm of the Mystical if not the downright fanciful. That is not ...
ISBN 1 85958 518 3
First published in 1965 by The Zeus Press, London, England, then in 1997 by Senate an imprint of Random House. Review below by J. Glass.
Morphic Resonance arguably forms part for some people of a new orthodoxy in their faith. Ideas and character are transmitted via vibrations and pictures in a way may be largely independent of genetics.
Editions Grasset
Patrice Van Aersel has made a detailed study of near-death or after-‘death’ experiences ...
Bacon is discussing ‘a part of man’s total presence and energy which is on a finer or higher level than the merely ...
One of the conundrums that nowadays particularly intrigues the reflecting world in that of consciousness. We all have it but what is it and what if anything is particular to the human race in possessing it? Is it likely that we alone have the key to understanding what is going on - - or perhaps the key is illusory?
Dennis Bardens was the least likely ghost chaser. He was a man with his wits about him, plugged right into the ...
I’m an ordinary bloke. So why do I think there might just be something in the ‘unseen world’ that might be ...
The unseen world! Is it any wonder that so many people ‘see’ it in different ways? Is it not passing strange that ‘so many’ people see it? If there is nothing to be seen, how come? Is it a collective delusion?
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Credos 111
What is Important to You?
We live here within the waking dream, sometimes forming very close emotional bonds with some others. When one of ...
When does individuality (sense of separate beingness) start and do we ever lose the oneness we were prior to ...
Brian Mayne has written lucidly of his spiritual journey. His life style is testimony to the efficacy of his ...
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Credos 1V
Spiritual Matters
She was four years old when she told her parents: "I died giving birth. I left three children and a husband in ...
It will not be “you” who chooses the next lifetime but your spirit; its location is not likely to be their top ...
The belief in reincarnation is common in eastern religions, but many early Christians also believed in ...
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Credos V
Poet’s Corner
Poetry thrives in a shadowy, allusive world in which feelings that can be un-pinnable in precise language come into a reality all their own. It may seem to have little to do with the world of facts and experimentation that is science. If all that there is can be explained by what we see and/or what we can prove, what need is there for poetry?
I am never lonesome or lost
When I see, from outside, those two birds
Come and are sat, daily, on my ...
That which makes Me
What I am : I-ness .
I see an iPhone ;
An Object, well defined,
Quite separate, from ...
The Effect : Gave rise to Entities
That now are in existence :
Matter and. Energy.
Cause : Not seen ...
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Your Turn
What is important to you?
This room is not just a reading room — it is an invitation. The Institute welcomes contributions from those who have thought carefully about what they believe and why. If you have something to say, we would like to read it.