Science Intro
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.
A Binary Spinning a Solid Web
The Trees joined up
At the top : seemingly a one
Canopy shading folk from
A fierce tropical Sun.
An idea : ...
A Thought Flows
Mirror hanging on the Wall
Mirrors me through it
Situating the Self there that I see
As Myself, that I
Never ...
A Thought From 2021 Blooms
A question that comes up
Time and again ; 1 : What is it ?
In many an idle moment, I ask
This, Frank. Then ...
A Bright and Sunny Day
Reflections on emerging from World War Two
A bright and sunny day had found its close
And I who through long ...
A call for reflection
Considers the need for the governance of the UK to evolve
A Further Thought by Brian Mayne
We live here within the waking dream, sometimes forming very close emotional bonds with some others. When one of ...
A Leaf In Free Fall, Rotating
Sun, moon, Venus, Uranus
And all the stars in the deeps that shine
Upon them, Juliet, you ...
A Question to be Answered
I often question my purpose.
A question proposed.
What is the quest I question?
For life is the purpose ...
A snapshot of Brian Mayne’s thinking about the ‘presence’ that underlies our essence,
When does individuality (sense of separate beingness) start and do we ever lose the oneness we were prior to ...
A Voyage Towards Oneself
Frederic Lenoir , a French philosopher. offers a perspective on spirituality from a Christian standpoint. He ...
About
ABOUTJustinGlassFounder of the Institute of Reflection. Writer, thinker, and advocate for the Western tradition of ...
Abstract Comes To Life
A shape, six sided
Hexagon, why was it
Centred : Scaffolding
On which organic Molecules
Get built ; Chance or ...
Academy of Ideas, The
Intelligent, open-minded public debates that explore current events and new ideas.
Adrian
Adrian says: “God is nature. It’s open for nature. Religion, if you go back far enough, came from the Sun God. I really believe that the Sun gave life.”
Aesthetic Beautification – Andrew Huddleston
Aircraft Carrier
I counted them all, Out ;
I counted them all, In
But the Number found
That I cannot tell you : a Military ...
Alan Watts
Alan Watts lectures on mystical vision via art, aesthetics, and Buddhist and Daoist philosophy. He advocates the ...
Alevis
Alevis have no binding religious dogmas, and teachings are passed on by a spiritual leader. Alevis believe in the ...
Alexandrine
Something particularly for our French listeners.
All Articles
All In One
There sat Minerva
Radiating elegance amongst
An unruly gathering enmeshed in chaos
That seemed to reign on the ...
An example of intellectual reflection brought to bear on ruminative reflection
Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
An Institute for Reflection
Socrates thought he could accomplish this worthwhile goal. It is a cornerstone of our way of thinking. To reverse the message in dated phraseology of Dante’s The Divine Comedy: ‘Prepare to meet thy salvation all ye who enter here!’ The carving for The Thinker by Rodin is no longer associated with The Gates of Hell of Dante’s original concept and today is a symbol of philosophy and knowledge.
An Underlying Approach to Reflection
Little of what follows is as easy as it might seem.
Reflection is a mental or cerebral state of mind. Mental ...
Andes Summit, The
Andrew Newberg – Where Religion and Science Collide
Andrew Newberg in Principles of Neurotheology evaluates what happens in people’s brains in a deep spiritual ...
Anthony
Anthony talks of the ephemerality and purpose of his life and a possible afterlife.
Anton Zeilinger in ‘The Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation’
Anton Zeilinger in ‘The Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation’ and other works describes ...
Arching Over
Tall, tall, Trees grow tall
Bending over at the top
Of their ends to touch
To form a one spreading green ...
Are You Undergoing a Divorce?
It is said that divorce and moving home can be among the greatest traumas to be faced, assuming you are in a civilised and healthy general environment. So, what should you do; what should you think; how should you face up to your divorce, assuming that it is now inevitable?
Article Index
The Virtual Agora for Occidental MeditationArticles
IndexYou've found the Institute of Reflection — a space ...
Articles
A selection of articles and thoughts from the Institute of Relections
Artificial Intelligence
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.
Artistic Whole
Ropes, an entangled Whole
Entity ; How did it come to be :
A mess made by a man ;
The output of his confused ...
Banjamin Casteillo
BENJAMIN CASTEILLO is one of the foremost Thinkers in the world today about the challenges confronting mankind. A ...
Barbara Larrivee
Barbara Larrivee, teaches Reflective Practice at the Department of Learning, University of California, has written ...
Barry Long
Barry Long makes a distinction between ‘I am’ and ‘me’. He speaks of ‘me’ as our ego and ‘I am’ as the living ...
Barry Long – A Portrait
A pen portrait of Barry Long and his teachings by a pilgrim can be read here.
Barry Long’s philosophy: The Immortal Moment (early manuscript)
Barry Long’s philosophy: Wisdom and Where to Find it (early manuscript)
Being
Because I am Life I live.I am love, therefore I love.All that I see around meReflects what lies within,And every ...
Benjamin in Informal Conversation at the Institute of Reflection
Bernardo Kastrup
Bernardo Kastrup has been leading the renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially ...
Bertrand Russell, super-extensionality and Logical fallibilism
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides ...
Big whorls have little whorls
Big whorls have little whorls,
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to ...
Biology and mind studies
Our bodies impinge on our minds, but how? Does the mental realm dominate our physical world or vice versa, and how?
Biophysical Journal
Biophysical Journal brings research to the biophysics community while promising scientific excellence, integrity, ...
Birds Sing
A window brings inLight of a diffused kindAnd a beauteous mixOf rust red and orange leaves.Green leaves on an ...
Bola
Bola's work in trauma management gives her a unique perspective
Brian Mayne
Brian Mayne has made an odyssey into thinking about who he really is and so who all of us are. He explains his ...
Brief Synopsis of the salient points of Duplication Theory (2017).
The hypothesis of Duplication theory (referred to as DT hereafter), was initiated almost inadvertently when ...
Bruce Lipton
Bruce Lipton says that ‘the brain generates electric signals, and if I put EEG wires on your head, you can see the ...
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was an American psychotherapist and author. His books include ‘Client centered Therapy’ (1951), and ...
Cathedrals
Before they took majestic form in rock
Cathedrals were a dream in human minds,
Conceived not just to house a ...
Center for Quantum Activism
Amit Goswami develops a theory of survival after death and reincarnation. In The Quantum Doctor, he seeks to ...
Chasing Beauty In The Shadows
A wild orchid, a tulip, a rose
They possess the quality of Beauty
A part of it, a clear variant,
Yet not the ...
Chopra Foundation, The
Robert Thurman of shows that many Buddhist concepts go hand in hand with understandings from physics, biology, ...
Chopra Foundation, The
Robert Thurman shows that many Buddhist concepts go hand in hand with understandings from physics, biology, and ...
Chris
Chris, like Crystal, does not see the point of the question but he at least says why.
Christophe Allain
Christophe Allain considers the spiritual dimension of Meditation and identifies differences of technique between ...
Claude
‘Claude’ ponders on the passing of the generations and sees a need for us to think about our place in the world.
Clutching At Straws Kicking In A Vacuum
You are talking, talking
Talking to Yourself or talking
To someone, somewhere unseen
Hidden in another space ...
College of Psychic Studies, The
The College of Psychic Studies works with trusted experts who specialize in psychic and mediumship, healing and ...
Communication, Technology, Temporality
Consciousness
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?
Consciousness – Nicholas Greaves
An analysis of how the combination of memory and intuition comprise the principal constituents of consciousness by ...
Consciousness is Not a Computation
Contact Us
We welcome comments, questions and submission suggestions for the The Institute of Reflection.
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Corine Sombrun
Corine Sombrun is one of the leading lights of Transcience. Frederic Lenoir and Wolfgang Pauli, a Nobel prize ...
Cosmopolitanism: an ideology for the 21st Century?
Though there is no general mobilisation, NATO and its allies are at war with the Russian Federation. China is ...
Credos
Both as individuals and as societies, we are what we have thought. We should think again. What works or does not work for societies of today and for you and me? Do you accept the views of the great thinkers of the past, for instance Bertrand Russell? The diagnoses of serious modern thinkers who consider the well-being of our world – and the personal credos of ordinary folk who are not ‘teachers’ – can help attune mindsets to modern needs. How to live better adjusted lives? Reflective thinking can be about practical matters and beliefs. Do parts – or all – of the beliefs of others hold promise for your life?
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.
Critical Reflection
The National School for Healthcare Competence describes Critical Reflection in the following terms:
It is ...
Crystal
Crystal takes 35 seconds to say she does not think about such questions and therefore has nothing to say about the answers
Culture and Value Philosophyand the Cultural Sciences – Kirchberg & Wechsel
Dance is Intangible
You dance and dance
Then the Dance dances You
Somewhat out and away
From your I. The Self
You used to know
Is ...
Dance is Intangible
You dance and dance
Then the Dance dances You
Somewhat out and away
From your I. The Self
You used to know
Is ...
Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman, an American psychologist, author and science journalist, wrote the best-selling 1996 book ...
Dave
Dave aligns the practical requirements of his life with his philosophy about it
David Perroud
David Perroud applies Archaeology and quantum energy to questions about human consciousness. What are the ...
Daybreak
Sunlight breaks upon the sharp
And jagged edges of the dark
And broken mirrors of the world;
Splinters ...
Democracy vis-à-vis other Political Systems
The spending bill is actually the creation of a national debt so massive that it has the means to destabilize a ...
Demonstrator
To be alive, she knows, you should believe
In something that could make a better world:
Reduce emissions, help ...
Dennis
Dennis' practical code of conduct is also his philosophy
Design Elements 2026
Detachment
Is detachment the solution, the pain
Of love attached too great
The creator to the soul must gain
That love ...
Devotion
I am never lonesome or lost
When I see, from outside, those two birds
Come and are sat, daily, on my ...
Devotion
I am never lonesome or lost
When I see, from outside, those two birds
Come and are sat, daily, on my ...
Differentation
One swallow does not make
A summer. Then what about
Two swallows ? Thinking, thinking
Through, that makes me ...
Divided We Stay
Science and spiritual matters may
Pursue one truth, my friend, but they
Are separate, like black and ...
Divine Lover
Break down my private doorBefore my Ego claims me.Abduct me and set me free.Sever the umbilical cord that binds me ...
Divine Nostalgia
I remember when I created the SeaAnd all the living things emanating from ME,How I found unutterable delightIn the ...
DNA Field and the Law of Resonance: Creating Reality through Conscious Thought
Groundbreaking experiments on the influence of DNA on photons and on the interactions between emotions and DNA, ...
Do not retreat into your private world
Do not retreat into your private world,
That place of safety, sheltered from the storm,
Where you may tend your ...
Donald Hoffman on Consciousness
Donald Schön
Donald Schön an American philosopher, author, and Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, produced a ...
Donna
Donna, a practical go-getter, finds fullfillment in helping others
Doubting Thomas: The downside of Reflection
In secular terms Doubting Thomas may be more justified in his doubts than in scripture. Treat with caution many ideas of the new way of looking at the World.
Dr Karen Kitchener
Dr Karen Kitchener is an American Counselling Psychologist, author, and Professor Emeritus at the University of ...
Dr Leaf on Neurocycle
Dr Leaf on Neurocycle, as well mind-management tools. Studies by Dr Leaf show how the brain can change with direct ...
Dr Randul Jandial on How the Brain Works
Dr Randul Jandial, a neurosurgeon on how the brain is a whole environment or ecosystem to understand which needs a ...
Dr Stephen Brookfield
Dr Stephen Brookfield is an English educationalist, at the School of Education, University of St Thomas, ...
Dr. Candace Pert
Dr. Candace Pert considers the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research. Her ...
Driifloat
Floatation therapy is a powerful method for rest, recovery and health maintenance. It can re-train your body into better sleep patterns, reduce the effects of deep-set stress and improve longevity.
Edge of a Beach
A tinted light, blood Red
Paints the sky above the Horizon.
The coolness, azure blue, of the Atlantic
Calms the ...
Einstein and the Quantum: Entanglement and Emergence
Emergent Knowledge
The language used is for facilitation. Solutions come from within a client. The client uses the space around ...
Emergent Knowledge Concept, The
The Emergent Knowledge concept: a person’s location can have a dramatic effect on thinking, and aid the ...
Emmy
Emmy says: “I believe in God. There is a creator who created us. To know him, to love him and to serve him, that’s (what is important). We need to act and help each other. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.” Lord Mereworth, from a different religion, says much the same.
Empty Dot Amongst Moving Matter
Looking out into dark, dark night sky
Far far away beyond the blue yonder
A glass eye has spotted
One ...
Enhanced Attitudes
ATTITUDES OF MIND and FEELING
THAT CAN BE ENHANCED BY OCCIDENTAL MEDITATION
TRAITS, ACTUATING PRINCIPLES, ...
Escape from a Pre-Computer Office
The office clacks and shrills at quiet folk
As silent thought, reflection, count as sin;
The castigations – ...
Events Jostle Inside The Black Box
They arise, these eventsUnpredictably, like Quantum playsIn the watery deeps of an AtomAnd depart in the blink of ...
Everything
Evolution
With ecstatic Freedom, Consciousness racesAlong the wave tracks with lightning speed.In an Electric UniverseWhy ...
Excuse For Dreaming
Perhaps, the glory of a dream
Is that it can never be,
For oft the things I have seen
No man on earth can ...
Explore
Explore your Mind
Explore your Mind has a range of in-depth discursive articles and lectures or how understanding how science ...
Fabrice Midal
Fabrice Midal offers a path to finding your own spirituality. Midal says that Philosophy challenges us, awakens ...
Fabrice Midal
Fabrice Midal offers a path to finding your own spirituality. He says that Philosophy takes us by surprise. It ...
Featured Articles
Federico Faggin
Federico Faggin developed a theory of physics which posits that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of being. ...
Federico Faggin
A theory of physics which posits that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of being.
Footprints in the Snow
(Thoughts on Transaction Theory)
Waves that travel faster than lightCatch up with the past beyond our ...
Four Levels of Reflection
Jenny Moon, a Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Bournemouth University, has written much on reflective ...
Fred
‘Fred’ was a successful sportsman and muses gratefully on a sport that has given him meaning to his life. Fred, an Olympian fencer, says of his sport that it: “changed every part of my life in so many ways.… You do things that you would never have done without it.”
Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf on what quantum physics tells us about the nature of reality
Fred Alan Wolf, PhD
Fred Alan Wolf, PhD looks into what quantum physics tells us about the nature of reality, specifically the parts ...
Frederic Lenoir
Frederic Lenoir , a French philosopher. offers a perspective on spirituality from a Christian standpoint. He ...
Frederic Lenoir
Frederic Lenoir is not in favour of denying emotions; imagine, he suggests, theatre without comedy and tragedy! ...
Free Will
From a Distance
The distant city steals along the vale,
A miniature, a model on display,
Its limes and contours softened by a ...
From Zero to Meaning
Getting up one morning in a bedroom at NewnhamLooking out into the manicured green lawnsGemma said : my nose is ...
Further Aspects of the Academic Work on Reflection
The Art of Self-Scrutiny
The act of self-reflection is a ‘spiritual act’ by taking time out to connect the ...
Further Reflections on Reflection
We can think about why we think what we think and think how best we can think. The best means to the best ends begins in the best thoughts. Watch the observer – you – and give ‘him’ the best advice you can. The process points up the purpose. It is as true for reflection itself as for anything else.
Gaia
Gaia has a large library of films discussions relating to all manner of topics that might broadly be described as ...
Gaia
Gaia has a large library of films discussions relating to all manner of topics that might broadly be described as ...
Galileo Commission
The Galileo Commission is to find ways to expand science so that it can accommodate and explore important human ...
Gerrie
To ‘Gerrie’, life is beautiful. One needs to be aware of the impact we make on those with whom we come into contact.
Gifford lectures
The Gifford Lectures concentrate on Natural Theology.
Global Consciousness Project, The
The Global Consciousness Project uses electronic devices located around the globe that respond to fluctuations in ...
This is a search engine
Grace
Grace does not know why the universe has allowed her to exist but this very uncertainty interests her, and she feels that she should make her mark successfully in furtherance of a purpose that she does not fully understand
Graham Gibbs‘ Reflective Cycle
The theoretical approach of reflection as a cyclical model was further developed by Graham Gibbs (1998). This model is based on a six-stage approach, leading from a description of the experience through to conclusions and considerations for future events. While most of the core principles are similar to Kolb’s, Gibbs’ model is broken down further to encourage the teacher to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings.
Graham Priest on Entanglement
Graham Priest on ‘Entanglement’ underscores the philosophical idea that everything depends on everything else. ...
Graham Priest on Entanglement
Graham Priest on ‘Entanglement’ underscores the philosophical idea that everything depends on everything else.
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden is a former Senior Computer Systems Designer for Martin Marietta Aerospace and a Computer geologist ...
Gregory Kern
Gregory Kern is a structural engineer and discerns laws of spirituality that inform the laws of physics.
Guiding Principles
Reflection is an Activity that does not own up to the name. It is aligned with a horizontal True North of ourselves. It is a cylinder too often uninspected under the bonnet in the engine that drives people forward into life’s choices. It is time in our speeded-up world that it has a more recognised niche in our communal psyche. Reflection impacts positively on us and on our societies. We are what we have thought. We should think again.
HANDBOOK OF THE WORLD CONGRESS ON THE SQUARE OF OPPOSITION IV
Harmony With The Universe
You can conduct yourself into harmony with the universe,
In the same way that a conductor
With his ...
Harpers
Roundtable discussions of contemporary issues by the academics, writers, and thinkers who know them best.
Have you Suffered a Bereavement?
Please accept condolences from someone who has undergone the loss of someone dear to them.
How do you feel and what should you be feeling? What justifiable comfort can you seek? Where can it be found? What ideas now are the best ones to lodge in your thoughts? Can you feel in any way better by approaching your bereavement in the best way tailored to your own unique situation?
Helen
Helen takes a cosmic view: “When the spirit enters the body, the soul is formed; when it connects with physical matter it forms the soul. I believe this is a journey that I have had; we are growing and we are learning.”
Hemal Jayasuriya
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?
Henry
Amongst other things, Henry thinks the past is a part of the present
Here and Now
Can the past remember the past?Or the future foretell the future?The Razor sharpness of each PRESENT instantAlone ...
Hidden Treasures
Macrobiological VisionsCapillary DancingCortex vibrating with strange molecular music - -Life showers streaming – ...
Home
The Virtual Agora for Occidental MeditationA road map forclearer thinkingReflection is the Western tradition of ...
Home
A road map for clearer thinkingA road map for clearer thinking.Get started with our simple guide
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How Ancient Wisdom Can Impact on Medicine
MEDICINE
Lourdes
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a ...
How Cumbersome The Flesh
O Master of my soul, my faith is crucified onFaulty logic. Reason contaminates my whole existence.I am a ...
How Did We Get Here From There – Timothy Williamson
How do you explain consciousness?
How Paradox Fares in Inconsistency Robust Logic and Beyond: Computational and Naturalized Approaches – John Woods
How Reflection can help widen your horizon
You are an observer, whatever else you are. If you encourage the tendency to observe there is no limit to what ...
How To Reflect
The Virtual Agora for Occidental MeditationHow to
ReflectWhy bother with a manual on Reflection on how to do it? ...
How to Write a Reflection Paper – Trent University
Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your ...
HRzone in 2021
Karen Liebenguth Executive and Leadership Coach & Mindfulness Trainer & Co-founder of Parcival
Human Birth
Birth is such a wonder born
Animal action in love is shorn,
the spirit of divine action
encompasses all.
Human ...
Humanity
I AM; therefore the whole world is.Without me being, the whole world would beAs though it had never been. Yes!I am ...
Humour
Some Meditation sects in the East kick-start sessions with a bout of belly-laughing to ginger participants into a happy mood and generally imbue their thinking with a sense of proportion.
Imagining In A New Light
Sat in a carriage
Speeding on rails
As the setting Sun spreads a rosy glow,
You see those trees, trees, ...
In a Session of Reflection
Why should ‘one size fit all’? What are you thinking when you reflect? Can your own thoughts be prescribed for you by anyone else? Are they the same as thoughts that anyone else may have in a similar context or are they more personal to you? This is a subjective voyage. One individual’s ideas during one sitting are here. Do you think in the same way?
In A Third Space : Science And Humanities
Numbers These problematic entitiesArising from Jena, got its tentaclesRound the Humanities to strangle them, it is ...
In Search of the Higher Self
On a lonely pilgrimage not knowing how,Through the jungle of my interior,Frantically searching for Here and NowAnd ...
Infinite Potential, The
The Infinite Potential by Paul Howard
Inner Music
Razor sharp resonance on tympanic membraneSuspended in timeless essence.The tactile impact of oscillating notes ...
Institute for Cogitation and Lateral Thinking
I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools ...
Institute for Leadership and Management, The
The institute for Leadership and Management advocates Critical reflection. It means to contemplate with ...
Institute of education sciences
Institute Policy
General comment: The prescriptions for right-minded conduct in business or contractual undertakings can be ...
Institution
Find a centre in your heart,
This is where your life must start
Your core of strength established here
In trouble ...
Interdependence
Stars won’t shine
If darkness was not present ;
There you are, Tom, a Binary
That brings much pleasure to the ...
International Neurophysical Society
Promoting the interdisciplinary study of brain-behavioural relationships throughout a lifespan and emphasises the ...
International Relations
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate
Truth ...
Into The Woods
Are you a lost soulLooking for that purposeThat brought you inScreaming out of the wombSearching for meaning, ...
Introduction to theory
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
Irene
Irene says: ‘I’m still grappling with the question of ‘what is important and what is important to me’. That’s a lifelong journey. I don’t have the answers. I like to feel I’m asking the questions. It’s the central problem in life.”
Iryna’s Faith
A new religion or creed or faith, as yet to be named, that is widely discussed and believed is coming into being.
Ithaka
Translated by EDMUND KEELEY
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, ...
Itzhak Beery
Itzhak Beery, the College of Psychic Studies, bridges spiritual and practical wisdom with teachings of indigenous ...
Jacqueline
Jacqueline is a Medium and recounts some of her interpretations of what is going on in her mediumship.
Jan
Jan is an Oxbridge graduate with no time for nonsense
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget proposed the theory that children mature in their thinking through different stages of development. He ...
Jimmy
Jimmy has thought a lot about why we are on this earth, and cites the theory that, to him, is most persuasive
John
'John’ wishes to leave the world a better place than he found it and observes some people duck out of trying to do this.
Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili – Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we ...
Jonathan Bradley
Jonathan Bradley, a Renaissance Man with a career that spans finance and Academia, versifies his individual take on city life and points up the advantages of reflection as in ‘Escape from a pre-computer office‘.
Jordon Peterson
Jordan Peterson does not expound his own religion but considers how we should live today in the context of faith ...
Josephine
To Josephine, “You live like the movement of water. We go with the flow, with nature. If the rain has to come the rain comes, you can’t do anything about it.”
Journal of Consciousness, The
The Journal of Consciousness publishes research papers and articles related to the study of the consciousness. Its ...
Joy Philippou MBE
Dr Joy Philippou MBE in ‘Meditation Poems’ brings zest and a love of life to a modern way of quiet reflection, resolving what might seem this paradox in a way that is uniquely hers.
JSTOR
JSTOR contains digitized back issues of academic journals books and other primary sources as well as current ...
Jurgen Habermas
Jurgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1929) held a professorship at the University of Frankfurt, ...
Justin Abrahams
Justin Abrahams ( Infused Knowledge | Beyond Human | Justin Paul Abraham – YouTube ) and author of viz ‘Beyond ...
Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle
Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle states that all life, at every scale of organization - from single cells to ...
Karl Pribram
Karl Pribram has conducted research into the functions of the brain’s limbic system, frontal lobes, temporal ...
Knowledge Media Institute
The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is an innovation lab at The Open University who are helping to create new ...
Kwabena
'Kwabena' draws from his own melodramatic past to create a philosophy that almost amounts to his new religion
Lamarckian Inheritance
Larry Holofcener
He has written what must be a unique book, Day of Change in that it is half poetry, half prose. The storyline ...
Latest
A selection of articles and thoughts from the Institute of Relections
Law
THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
Much of what is below is commonly accepted; little enough substantively speaking is ...
Leap Before You Look
Purposeless, we blindly leapFrom here to anywhereBy way of nothing, through nowhere,Via everywhere.
On unknown ...
Learning Cycle by David Kolb
David Kolb proposed that if people become better at using all stages of a learning cycle, notably including reflecting on experience, they will become better life-long learners, and be more successful.
His concept is among many that advocates 'trial and error' (extending to reflection, conceptualization and experimentation) through direct personal experience
Lena
As can be gauged by the lunchtime background chatter in the restaurant, Lena's response exemplifies the deliberately impromptu nature of these 'interviews' by saying what she has been feeling all along rather than coming up with a scripted talk tapered to how an audience might react to words of wisdom.
Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Jacobson is a spiritual teacher, mystic and gifted healer, who is deeply committed to helping others break through to the joyous experience of living in the NOW.
Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Susskind Marrying Quantum Physics & General Relativity
Letting go of the Other Into Aloneness
On the level of mind,
You are very much involved with the other.
You love the other or hate the other.
Or want ...
Library
The intellectual range of the Institute. Articles on Philosophy, Society and Science — each bearing on how we think, how we live, and what we believe about the world we inhabit.
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili in Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology explores such ...
Light and Sound
Sound is Light ;
Some vibrations, heard,
Enlightens the Innards of the Mind
Catalysing into action its hidden ...
Light of the Non-existent Sun
How can one blowA whiff of LifeInto a Lifeless Equation from a Platonic Cosmos
Separating it from -1 of ...
Lines Written Beneath an Elm in The Churchyard of Harrow On The Hill
Spot of my youth! Whose hoary branches sigh
Swept by the breeze that fans thou cloudless sky
Where now alone I ...
Links
Below are links to internet fora on a range of philosophical and related questions; they are not an exhaustive tour d'horizon and offer a way in to the topics
Living Matrix, The
Lord Barnado
Lord Barnardo illustrates a peculiarly British reticence to discuss such deep matters
Lord Mereworth
Lord Mereworth is a profoundly religious person who cares about Justice, the cornerstone of human relations.
Lord Oranmore
Lord Oranmore author of ‘Sparkling Fountain’
Lucy
To Lucy, interacting meaningfully with others matters. Lucy grounds the need for gregariousness in terms of the evolution of mankind.
Lynne McTaggart – The Power of Eight
Lynne McTaggart in The Power of Eight makes the claim that when individuals in a group focus their intention ...
Lynne McTaggart’s The Field
It incorporates a mechanism whereby the components of the brain act in such a way that reality, or the true state ...
Manual
Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics, The
Sean Carroll in The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics explains why an increasing number of physicists are led to ...
Marching To Music
Moments flow uplifting the Self ;
Time, unfelt, is cast aside
To its own devices :
An unknown ...
Mark Twain’s Thinking on Reflection
Mark Twain once said: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and ...
Markus
Collaboration with other people and good common sense are essential for a balanced way of life
Matthew
To Matthew, home is where the heart is: “It’s a sense of defining what is important to us, a centering point of view that there is somewhere that at the end of the day and if all goes to hell there’s home.”
Maurice
For Maurice his journey is writ large rather than a conclusion he has reached
Me Looking Out
That which makes Me
What I am : I-ness .
I see an iPhone ;
An Object, well defined,
Quite separate, from ...
Medicine
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in ...
Melanie Jasper
Melanie Jasper, an expert on reflective practice within healthcare, defines reflection as “the way that we learn ...
Mercury
An opaque silver grey
A running ball, a liquid metal
Not solid, Not organic
So metallic, yet unlike
A ...
Mercury
An opaque silver grey
A running ball, a liquid metal
Not solid, Not organic
So metallic, yet unlike
A ...
Mereology – the study of parts and wholes
This looks inter alia at whether everything must be something, and at metaphysical questions such as ‘Everything ...
Metacognition
Metacognition: thinking about one’s thinking – the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one’s ...
Metamorphosis
Living currents radiating intelligenceVitalise the nucleus of each of my primal atoms,I feel the central chord of ...
Microsoft Academic
Mission
Mission Statement
of this
Virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation (VAOM)
THE THINKER by Auguste Rodin
Why should a ...
Modern Thinkers about the human condition
Thinkers about our societies and our belief systems wield power over the future. Not for them the cut and thrust ...
Modification of DNA through remote Intention, The
The modification of DNA through remote Intention concludes that it is possible to interact at distance on the ...
Modulation of DNA Confirmation by Heart-Focused Intention
It shows that there is an increase in heart coherence when people are instructed to generate feelings of love and ...
Most Strange
Boxed in was Something ;
That something was most Strange.
The Box that contained it
Weighed the same ...
Muktananda (Alias Orpheus)
He takes us through indispensable stagesFrom unconscious to conscious cognitionOf Truth – Unity – the AbsoluteVia ...
Mystic Tramp
I was Somebody once, before the hunger and coldAnd numb hands scavenging for loot,Or the scrounging of scraps from ...
Mysticism / the Unseen World
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?
Nelson
Nelson believes that what is important to us changes at different phases of our life
Next Century Foundation
The Next Century Foundation believes that meeting on a non-political level can lubricate the wheels of diplomacy. ...
Nick Greaves
Nine Powers of Dreaming by Robert Moss
In ‘The Nine Powers of Dreaming’, Robert Moss contends that we solve problems in our sleep and gives nine main ...
Non Duality
Objectively SubjectiveSubjectively ObjectiveHoly FusionofIrreconcilable concepts:Parallels, meeting in ...
Non-Contemporary Poets on Reflective Subjects
Many poems penned over the ages have the idea of Reflection uppermost. These often go hand in hand with solitary reflecting in an arcadian setting.
There is a vogue of poetry that tries to come to terms with the latest scientific theories
Anthologies invariably celebrate the taste of those who choose the poems. Here are a few favourites of this institute, aside from those poets who have their own section.
(The picture is of Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey)
Non-Duality And It’s Implications
Non-duality and the implications for Fee-Will and the passage of time.
Non-duality, frequently rendered from the ...
Nudge Theory
Nudge theory and the heuristics within it – especially the human tendency to place undue emphasis on ‘evidence’ – ...
Olympia
On evidence in this poem is Hemal's romantic side, generally overlooked in the selection for this Institute from ...
Om Mantra
Libidinal impact of unimaginable artCompressing the infinite within the human heart.Piercing every breath with ...
Omar
Omar is after: “Finding that balance, staying happy not working too hard, financial stability.”
On Science
It is a strongly held view of many people that there is no such thing as an Afterlife: all we have is here in earth and when we die, it is curtains on any existence we can have. To someone postulating this, and it is usually with confidence, the question can be put: ‘How do you know?’ It is unlikely to elicit from the sceptically minded anything resembling a proof.
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
Inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex is an index of hundreds of millions of interconnected ...
Oranmore
Lord Oranmore is struck in wonderment at many of the perplexing questions about the world and mankind’s place in it that can be felt by those of a reflective disposition. These uncertainties and other concerns of this institute receive a rapt distillation into words in ‘Sparkling Fountain’.
Ordering Into Shape, Unpredictable
Is it the case
That Nothing Matters ;
Think and think again beyond
Two Words : it may tell you
That that is ...
Oswald
'Oswald' is a gentleman of the road. His is a view that neatly aligns with his hairdo
Outside and Inside
Liquid Crystal : a Name
Given to an impossible Reality.
Liquid Smoke
...
Papia
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
Paradox
Eyes make us blind,And to ears we owe our deafness.IntellectAndWillFrom clouds of unknowingThat bar us from ...
Perfectlyatpeace.com
Perfectlyatpeace.com with Beau Norton is about spiritual transformation & personal growth for aspiring leaders and ...
Personal Credo – Michael
Michael is an eminently sensible Englishman. His personal Sanctuary is featured in the SANCTUARY of this website as is his view about Silence
Personal Credos
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.
Peter
‘Peter’ makes observations on the art and origin of observing, and about virology, belief systems, and how conflict arises.
Phenoscience Laboratories
Phenoscience Laboratories: The Emerging Field of Research on the Scientific Process served as a formative meeting ...
Philip
To Philip, interacting meaningfully with others matters. Philip says that one has to find one’s own path.
Philosophies
The Agora was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It was a city-state’s ‘gathering place’ or ...
Physics of Consciousness, The
Ivan Antic discusses ‘The Physics of Consciousness: In the Quantum Field, Minerals, Plants, Animals and Human ...
Physics, Astrophysics and Quantum Mechanics
Science that has bearing on the question: In what way if any are we connected to everything around us?
Pinterest is a commercial website with uplifting quotations about how to lead a good and fulfilled life. This ...
Poems
A selection of articles and thoughts from the Institute of Relections
Poet’s Corner
Some ideas one can’t cut with a knife or put on a weighing machine; they are allusive and illusive but NOT illusional. They can speak more eloquently than in mere prose about the wonders of the world and its amazing secrets that are being teased out by science.
Policy of this Institute
General comment: The prescriptions for right-minded conduct in business or contractual undertakings can be ...
Polity
Polity as a strong list in many subjects in the social sciences and humanities, including politics, sociology, ...
Powers of Ten
Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames
Practical Wisdom
ACTION STARTS WITH THOUGHT. Do you start to ‘act’ – in this sense – in the right mental space? Do you learn ‘on the job’ of life? Are there viable short cuts? Is yours an approach to take into account as many as possible useful factors? School yourself to reach your best way of taking decisions.
Professor David Albert
Professor David Albert author of Quantum Mechanics and Time and Chance goes into inter alia the philosophical ...
Professor David Albert – Quantum Mechanics and Experience (book)
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeons Journey into the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander.
This is particularly interesting because at the back of the book Eben Alexander explains why mainstream ...
Prospera’s World
Roger, I see you sweating at that desk ;Work not so hard, there is no need for it.When you let go the tension in ...
PSYCHOPHYSICS: An Answer from the Unconscious
E Green – Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine Journal Archives – journals.sfu.ca
Biopsychology, and more ...
Quanta
Everything exists, is there –That polished table, this old chair –Regardless of whether you’re looking or not,Now ...
Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe – with David Tong
According to our best theories of physics, the fundamental building blocks of matter are not particles, but ...
Quantum Mechanics and Experience
Questions and Answers
The Effect : Gave rise to Entities
That now are in existence :
Matter and. Energy.
Cause : Not seen ...
Quora
A place to gain and share knowledge. It is a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute ...
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi believed that death and evil were illusion which could be dissipated by the practice of ...
Random Walks
Lotus remains tethered
To its mud-sucked bottom
Until its cogitating innards
Outs an unseen Force
Of its own ...
Rashomon
Men are on the run all of the Time.
They have not the time to slow down
Hence miss Life’s wonders as the railway ...
Rats
They stick to family values in their home,
Their many offspring brought up to be tough,
But when they’re on the ...
An American news aggregation and discussion website covering news, politics, religion, science, movies, video ...
Reflecting by Jan Thompson
Complete Assemblies for Secondary Schools
ISBN 034042954 2; First Published 1988
Introduction
Here is ...
Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture – Dawn M Wilson
Reflection
The foundation room. What reflection is, why it matters, how to do it, and what it can do for you. The place to begin — and to return to.
Reflection – For Success and in Industry
Reflection as an academic subject
We can think about why we think what we think and think how best we can think. The best means to the best ends begins in the best thoughts. Watch the observer – you – and give ‘him’ the best advice you can. The process points up the purpose. It is as true for reflection itself as for anything else.
Reflection can be a constructive way of life
Reflection is a tool of the mind helping better decision-making. It can affect your everyday thinking and attitude ...
Reflection can bring you happiness and pleasure
Contentment is a tremendous boon. It is a springboard for those extra-special moments of bliss which we cannot ...
Reflection can bring you peace of mind and heart
You can find quiet by yourself and the peace that accompanies it. It is a reason for the appeal of ‘Meditation’. ...
Reflection can help us understand the Cosmos
Marvellous discoveries have been made since Great Thinkers first contemplated the stars! You have the benefit of ...
Reflection can help you understand who you are
Treat yourself as a subject worthy of contemplation. If you think about who you are, you are on the way to ...
Reflection Represented in Figurine Form
Reflection is a particular and a useful state of mind but we tend to overlook it through its familiarity. We present a montage of figurines showing subjects in a ruminative state of Reflection.
Reflection techniques; how better to reflect
Eastern Meditation has it's handbooks, it's rituals, it's methods, its's mantras. So too there is advice galore ...
Reflection: How to do it
Why bother with a manual on Reflection on how to do it? After all, we surely all know what it is to reflect ...
Reflection: its practical purposes
Don’t you want to be more rounded, successful and clever. Of course you do! Everything in this institute tends in ...
Reflection: its rationale
This virtual institute is about how the facility and ability, reflection, that each of us has to greater or lesser ...
Reflection: What is it and why is it useful?
Its power lies in being able to help you develop your understanding of the way you learn, the subjects you are ...
Reflections as in a Mirror
There is a different but allied sense of the word "reflection". If you look in the mirror you will see a reflection of yourself. Here are the thoughts on this topic of Tessa Rawcliffe.
Reflections as you see them
This the view of Tessa about reflections in the sense of how they may appear to you in a mirror.
Reflective Practice
Linda Lawrence-Wilkes and Dr Lyn Ashmore, teachers of professional development in higher education, collaborated to publish their research on Reflective Practice for learning, 'The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education'.
Regression Story
She was four years old when she told her parents: "I died giving birth. I left three children and a husband in ...
Reincarnation – memory of past lives
The belief in reincarnation is common in eastern religions, but many early Christians also believed in ...
Remote Viewing Astral Travel
Astral Travel is thought by many to be in the realm of the Mystical if not the downright fanciful. That is not ...
ResearchGate
Google Scholar has even adopted the phrase “Stand on the shoulders of giants” on its home page, paraphrasing Isaac ...
Researchgate
Researchgate is for those who have detailed questions that cover a range of different specialisms. With 135+ ...
Review: ‘La Source Noir – Revelations aux portes de la mort’ by Patrice Van Aersel
Editions Grasset
Patrice Van Aersel has made a detailed study of near-death or after-‘death’ experiences ...
Review: ‘Who Am I’ by Brian Mayne
Brian Mayne has written lucidly of his spiritual journey. His life style is testimony to the efficacy of his ...
Review: Allon Bacon – Out of my Hands
Bacon is discussing ‘a part of man’s total presence and energy which is on a finer or higher level than the merely ...
Review: Dennis Bardens – Ahead of Time
Dennis Bardens was the least likely ghost chaser. He was a man with his wits about him, plugged right into the ...
Review: Ghosts and Hauntings by Dennis Bardens
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.
Review: Rupert Sheldrake – Morphic Resonance
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.
Review: Your Brain is Boss by Dr Lynda Shaw
Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist whose book Your Brain is Boss draws on scientific research to show how ...
Richard Lang – Seeing Who You Really Are
Richard Lang is a spirituality teacher who the guidance of Douglas Harding was astonished to discover that he ...
Richard Lang – Seeing Who You Really Are (video)
Robert Moss
Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in ...
Robert Thurman – Buddist Contributons to physics, biology and psychology
Rosslyn
We're here to fundamentally find the truth about ourselves. We must release the negative energies that hamper us. What counts is forgiveness and awareness.
Roy
Roy says: “If all I do in my life is achieve a state of absolute peace of mind, that is enough everything else – all the understandings – come out of that.”
Roy Maunder
Roy Maunder: The aim of this work is to bring ageless, time tested teachings of Mindfulness, Destiny and the Art ...
Roy Maunder
The aim of Roy Maunder is to bring ageless, time tested teachings of Mindfulness, Destiny and the Art of Living in ...
Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake in ‘A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance’ states that “The morphogenetic ...
Sadguru
Sadguru is an Indian yoga guru and author whose deep wisdom, common sense and, on occasion, wit has earned him a ...
Sadguru
Sadguru is a famous Indian yoga guru and author whose deep wisdom, common sense and, on occasion, wit has earned ...
Sanctuary
A room set apart. Not for reading — for experiencing. Enter, slow down, and let the noise recede. This is a space for stillness, sound, and the kind of thought that only comes when you stop rushing.
Sanctuary-orig
A wholesome perspective is vital, the idea in Frederick Langbridge‘s couplet: ‘Two men looked out of prison bars / One saw mud, the other stars’. One may as well use the best tools that are to hand. It can be easier to think your own thoughts and find your best perspective when in a congenial space for a retreat. A Sanctuary is any place that you think is a sanctuary. You can design it for yourself but are welcome to drop in on our virtual sanctuary. It may help you feel comfortable in exploring what is important to you. This section contains the newly composed orchestral piece 'REFLECTIONS' by Alla Sorenko.
Sandro
Sandro comes right out and says: “I do my best to be happy every day. I think it’s not always easy to be happy but it’s the most important thing we have.” He looks and sounds as if he’s got there!
Scamper Method, The
The Scamper method was proposed by Alex Osborne in 1953. In 1971, American psychologist Bob Elerle advocated the ...
Scholarship
A ‘Lucky Dip’ of scholarly, reflective articles.
Science and Human Transformation
William Tiller in Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness reveals a ...
Science section of WIRED
Scientific and Medical Network, The
The Scientific and Medical Network is a forum for transformative learning and change and part of a worldwide ...
Scientific Fora
There are many excellent fora, websites and institutions for debating the findings and significance of recent scientific discovery and some are listed here.
Scientific themed films & documentaries
The ‘magic’ of the world may lose its magic as we understand more about it but it can be magical if imaginatively portrayed.
Search for your Soul
I walked and walked till the dawn did break
Upon the April sunshine wake.
The flowers did spring by the lake
As ...
Searchlight
Why choose darkness over light
Of knowledge, raising yet more new
Undreamed-of questions?
Do you see ...
Secret by Rhonda Byrne, The
The Law of Attraction is about Putative Universal Laws that can be tied to quantum physics, also known as Cosmic ...
Section 1 of the theory
The text of section 1
Section 2 of the theory
Section 2 content here
Self Realisation Fellowship
A worldwide fellowship devoted to the discovery of peace, joy and prosperity in everyday life through communion with God.
Semantic Scholar
A research tool for scientific literature publishing abstracts on cutting edge scientific developments
Sesame
Following Fulfilment, MEDITATION ACTION FORUM and Sesame, a centre for Spiritual culture, advocates ...
Shadows
Absence of day gives birth to nightSo the shadow, born of light.Dark non-substance, all substance pervadingAll ...
SHIELD
The United Nations should be given teeth.
Ship of Hope
A poem by Winnifred Emma May, known as Patience Strong, about the quiet period after a lifetime’s struggle. ...
Silence is Golden
What is your favourite popular tune? Mine is an old classic, Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of ...
Silent Satsang
Yourself looking from without, upon myself within,Myself looking from without upon yourself within.
Yourself ...
Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: Consciousness and the Physics of the Brain
Soaring Up
Routines of skipping along aisles
Humdrum clockwork doings
Picking up goods : those existential ...
Some Definitions
Reflective Practice is an ancient concept. There are references to the power of reflective learning in the ...
Some Famous Names Whose Works Have Contributed to the Study of Relection
Reflection as an academic subject has been considered by many famous philosophers throughout history. Here's some of the best known historical contributors to the field.
Some Science Based Theories That Should Have An Impact On Our Beliefs
SCIENCE BASED THEORIES THAT SHOULD HAVE IMPACT ON OUR BELIEFS
This link is to a paper on ...
Soul Mountain
On the Sole Mountain
One Soul there unseen amongst the howling wind.
Mountain, a lost Soul, ...
Spirit Machines
Spirit Machines by Robert Crawford
Spiritual Matters
Spirituality means different things to different people. Who holds the master keys?
Spiritual Teachers
There are many different paths offering spirituality. SPIRITUAL TEACHERS accepts that judging the quality of ...
Spiritual, but not religious?: On the nature of spirituality and its relation to religion – Jeremy Carey
Spirituality
What is on offer these days is a smorgasbord of recipes, many of which are enriching, uplifting to the soul. The ...
Starburst
Smell of singed Fur branches
A thing lodged in the past.
Salty winds gently whistling in
Over the tropical ...
Starlight
A red fallen leafDevoid of essenceDrops into a silent oceanTo be one amongst many.A thought stream youWere, now a ...
Start Here
You've found the Institute of Reflection — a space dedicated to the Western tradition of meditative thought. Here's a clear path through everything we offer.
Statement of Principle
For millennia humans have solved extraordinary problems as well as taken advantage of great opportunities through ...
Stephen
Stephen sees music as what makes for a wonderful life.
Stewart Moss talks about a ghost he has seen
Stewart’s Dream
Stock Exchange
Investment is a wide and stormy sea
Where prices toss and bounce like drifting planks;
The managers are seamen ...
Stuart
Stewart feels that “The secret to fulfilment in your life is to send out pure love.” Anthony also says: “A purpose in life is to share love and to be loved.”
Stuart Hameroff
Conscious (eg Visual) perception involves three waves post-thalamus; the third wave corresponds with conscious ...
Stuart Hameroff – Quantum Biology & Consciousness
Conscious (eg Visual) perception involves three waves post-thalamus; the third wave corresponds with conscious ...
Summary of Theory
EVE AND ADAM THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
by
B. J. Glass
Preamble:
Much of the theory of this Institute is in this ...
Supersolids and Entanglement
What possible deductions in philosophical or spiritual terms can be made from recent scientific findings about ‘Supersolids’ and ‘Entanglement’?
Susie
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.
Sustainability, the hidden path -NEW WORLD TOGETHER – with Benjamin Casteillo
Synopsis Paper on Dark Matter
Synopsis Paper on Dark Matter started 26 August 2022 as a briefer version of a longer paper (7 pages) from ...
Synthetic Such
‘The sum of all the parts of Such –
Of each laboratory scene –
Is Such.’ While Science means this much
And ...
Talking Heads (1980)
Krzysztof Kieślowski in TALKING HEADS asks people about their beliefs and their aspirations.
Tao
With desperate lucidityWe seize upon escape,Contemptuous of danger.Diving throughego-encrusted layersinto limpid ...
Tao of Physics, The
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Tender is the Moonlight
Mirror, Mirror
You are the one who captured
My silhouette .
I watched helpless
As you made me
Go beyond your ...
TESSA LYNNE – thoughts on the afterlife
It will not be “you” who chooses the next lifetime but your spirit; its location is not likely to be their top ...
Test Video
The Agora
The Agora is a French website which inter alia is designed to accompany changes and mutations which are taking ...
The Art of Self-Scrutiny
The act of self-reflection is a 'spiritual act' by taking time out to connect the inner-self with the outer ...
The Art of the Pause
In a world that prizes speed and constant motion, the pause is often overlooked.
Yet it is in stillness that ...
The Baha’i Religion
There are plans for an Abrahamic Family House, a centre comprising a synagogue, a church and a mosque, that are ...
The Brookfield Model of Reflection
The Brookfield Model of Reflection is a tool that helps teachers discover the value of their lessons through ...
The Bullet that Missed (Test Book)
The Burning Bush
Indescribable waves of visible energy:Sensuous contact with the living VoidPlays havoc with long cherished logical ...
The Divine Wisdom Of Rumi
he 13th century Persian poet and mystic
The Elegance of Enigma: Quantum Darwinism, Quantum Bayesianism (QBism) & Quantum Buddhism – In Pursuit of a (Quantum) Middle Way! – Graham P. Smetham
The Feel of Beauty
Sensed in an Object : a wriggling luminescent JellyfishCausing waves in a body of waterIs a subjective phenomenon ...
The Founder
The International Political Stage
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate
Truth is buoyant – it will surface at some point ...
The Journey Home
As I give up my attachments,
As I give up trying to find
Myself in others and return
To the silence of my ...
The Learning Cycle of David Kolb
The Magic Gene
When we bit the apple, we found
That we weren’t always going to be around,
But only here for limited ...
The Marrying of Quantum mechanics with General Relativity
Leonard Susskind discusses The marrying of Quantum mechanics with General Relativity. Quantum Mechanics is not ...
The Neuroscience of Consciousness
The Pari Center for New Learning
The Pari Center for New Learning is to advance the integration of knowledge, the arts, science, ethical values, ...
The Rebel
God save me from the masses
God save me from the crowd
God save me from conforming
To the miserable and ...
The Reflective Cycle of Graham Gibbs
The Soul
The body flesh lies on the soft ground
Wrestling with the soul around
This soul where is it set
Nobody knows
It is ...
The Theory
Introduction to the theory
The Theory of the Institute
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known ...
Theodore
Theodore sees his life like onion rings: “The outside onion ring is my social life and my sporting life…. the inner ring is your own personal philosophy, your perception of the universe and the world and your place in it.”
This Way Before
Have been this way before,
Walked through the gate
Up the stairs, watched the children
Stand and stare.
Or was it ...
Tiberias
Clasped within the pregnant depths,Under echoing mauves of the twilit hillsAnd the bleeding rays of a molten ...
Time to reflect – why does it matter in the workplace?
Reflection can be a very empowering process. It can help you to make sense of your day, to come to decisions, to ...
To Ease The Pain
Then the heat of the sun
To warm and inspire,
Is that enough to go on the run,
Hide where not to be found?
In the ...
Tolleck’s Prevision
Tom’s Clock
Tick, Tock, Time flowsForward, if you know that way.Tock, Tick, that is never the case ;Cosmos cannot be made to ...
Traffic Joy
You hide inside a glass and metal cage
Not strong enough to save your flimsy life,
And sometimes feel the raw, ...
Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field
Professor Shinsuke Shimoto, Connie Wang, and Isaac Hilburn show that some human brains can pick up on rotations of ...
Transformative Learning
Jack Mezirow was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at Teachers ...
Trip
Wending mindward to their goalThrough clear mountains of the Soul.Life-blue rivers thread the goldWhich no greed ...
Tsuruko and Barry
Tsuruko here is giving Barry ‘the Light’, in the process of which she explains what she is doing.
Turned On
In the colours of my darkness, I cognize space!In the Circular light, I see love’s face.My bounded freedom in ...
Two Confessions
I’m an ordinary bloke. So why do I think there might just be something in the ‘unseen world’ that might be ...
University of Edinburgh Parapsychology
A university with a strong department researching parapsychology is the University of Edinburgh.
Untitled 1
Teaching is nothing,
Learning is all.
Building, baking,
Shoe and dress-making,
Farming, fishing or ...
Untitled 2
In the beginning
Was the land itself
Happy child of a star’s debris.
Desert, swamp
Mountain and ...
Vacuum Fluctuations
It is a MixtureThat confrontYour eyes, in the WorldBeneath the oneYour eyes see.A single photonGoes through two ...
Vanishing Dot
Wherever you are
Vanishes
Bursting into an exploding space :
A Big Bang arises ;
All that was there
Is still ...
Vegan Restaurant
The pomegranate soup is very fine,
To follow, sautéed hawthorn leaves with spice
accompanied by homemade ...
Video Library
Virtual Reality
On the scale of the very vast,Where speeds are incredibly fast,There’s no such thing, says Einstein,As an absolute ...
Waiting for Wednesday Values, Facts and the “Truth” Connection – Stuart W. Mirsky
Walking Alone
What is this about, is it your country or love
Human love undivided.
For love must be whole, fresh and ...
Waves, Particles, Vibrations
Moonlight sonata ; Red Dragonfly
Hovering over the tranquil water
In a lake : an image etched into the mind.
A ...
Ways to Prepare for Reflection
The first time we do it, we may not get very far. If we make a habit of doing it slowly, by degrees, then a feel ...
Wendy Shutler
Wendy Shutler author of ‘Here We Go Round the Multiverse‘
Wendy Shutler
Wendy Shutler in ‘Here we go round the Multiverse’ puts into superb poetry many of the preoccupations of this website about the amazing world as it has been revealed by science. The common sense that she wraps around it in poetic form if anything renders it more stunning.
Western Meditation
Occidental Meditation should come out of the closet. Cults and beliefs emanating largely from the East may have an elevated aim but the time is ripe for a fuller appreciation of Western traditions of reflection. The habit of reflection per se is worthwhile. To meditate is distinct from some fashionable goals of ‘Meditation’. It is a path to practical wisdom and self-realisation and should be fully signposted.
Western vis-a-vis Eastern Meditation
There are many paths to enlightenment and many meanings of that word. You wish to Reflect? Stand tall on your right to do so! It is an allowable, rewarding way to spend time. You do not need to Meditate in the way that is a trend unless it speaks to you. There are teachers and traditions from the West to draw upon.
What is Reflection?
The Virtual Agora for Occidental MeditationWhat isReflectionThinking about thinking — to enhance your appreciation ...
What is Western Meditation?
Occidental Meditation should come out of the closet. Cults and beliefs emanating largely from the East may have an elevated aim but the time is ripe for a fuller appreciation of Western traditions of reflection. The habit of reflection per se is worthwhile. To meditate is distinct from some fashionable goals of ‘Meditation’. It is a path to practical wisdom and self-realisation and should be fully signposted.
What Reflection has to offer you
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.
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