Atticus Atlas contributions
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 these close one's physical form dies, nothing happens to their essence/awareness, as that is impersonal and indestructible AND already one with our...
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 reflect. To pause and reflect when you’re on the side of the majority is to practice intellectual humility. It’s recognizing that just because something is widely...
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 that? The individual side of us originally did not exist. Who and where were we as individuals in, say, 1949? Even after birth, it still took some time for the...
A Contemplation
This Contemplation is a personal view about our ‘essence’/s. A motivation for writing this piece is a misgiving that, given life can be so mystifying, how much is helpfully reducible to prose? Apart from that question - the answer to which might render the exercise...
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.
What can we be sure of?
By J. Glass Preamble Leaving aside such hoary pensées as that of Descartes’, ‘I think therefore I am’, how much of the world can we know from our own observation? How aware of how reliant are we on the work of others? How do we know - if not an astrophysicist - that...
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.
The 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 attitude is in thought processes more than in a physical preparation. There should be an understanding that ‘reflection’ is an activity in itself that is to be...
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.
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:...