Atticus Atlas contributions
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...
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?
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:...
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.
