In my chat with him you will find out why he threw in a perfectly decent and potentially promising career as neuroscientist, why he believes that Rupert Sheldrake is wrong about morphic fields, and how reading a letter sent ten years into the future changed his life forever.
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Today’s question for the Five Minute Mystic comes from Penny. This is a very important query. Why should anyone do shadow work, and is it really worth all the effort? In this video I address the pros and cons of delving into the murky depths of the human psyche. Penny’s question is below. I have…
(Cartoon image by Paul MacLeod) In my previous post I wrote of my own difficult experience in making my way in the world using spiritual principles. I am an educator, futurist, writer and speaker whose passion is for Deep Futures – futures where the technological and economic is more evenly balanced with the deeper spiritual aspects of…
So you want to dive in at the deep end and get into this alternative philosophy business? And by “business”, I do mean business. Perhaps you have had a few personal experiences which have led you to deeply question the way dominant science and education represent the human condition. You might have had a spiritual…
This is the third part of three posts I am writing about this topical issue. In the first post I described the problem regarding the presence of hard-core skeptics group Guerrilla Skeptics, and their undue control of Wikipedia pages related to spiritual and psi phenomena. In the second post I outlined three different approaches to…
This is the first part of a three posts I am writing about this topical issue. In this post I will introduce the problem. In the second post I will make some general points about what should be done, and why. I will also write why certain approaches are likely to be counterproductive –…
How many paths up there? The One Right Path? Most human beings in developed countries and regions of the planet are presented with an opportunity to create a life. Their life. Once we are old enough to start asking questions and develop a capacity for critical thinking, there then arises the most fundamental of…
For those of you who are in the Melbourne area, I am running the following workshop very soon at the Enkindle Wellness Centre, in Gisborne. The first workshop in North Melbourne was a great success, and we already have a list of people who have signed up for…
Why I rejected the chance for a six-figure income: Diary of a 21st Century Mystic #14 Many of you reading this will be aware that I write a lot about both mindfulness and how to develop spiritual intuition – what I call Integrated Intelligence. In fact this is the main subject of my most…