Is Following Your Passion Dangerous? (1)
What are the dangers of following your bliss? And should you quit your job?
The True Cost of Following Your Bliss (3)
There is a price to pay for following your bliss, especially if you choose to deliberately and publicly advocate an alternative philosophy that challenges mainstream opinion and the dominant worldview. In the first of these articles I described my own problems as a futurist with an alternative take on looking at the future, and how difficult…
Actions and Choices: Diary of a 21st Century Mystic #11
What is it that a modern mystic seeks in this world? Are there some things that he must seek? Are there some things that he should not seek because they are incompatible with a genuine spiritual path? Or should there be no seeking. Simply being? These are the kinds of questions that I have had…
Diary of a 21st Century Mystic, #2: Wisdom & action
DIARY OF A 21st CENTURY MYSTIC (#2). “It isn’t necessary to be right, just don’t get it wrong.” Apparently this is a quote by management guru and futurist Peter Schwartz. I heard it quoted yesterday at the Asia-Pacific Foresight conference in Perth, Western Australia, and it struck me as a profound truth. Too often we…