Life Story#9: The Paradise Way
Part One
Head down Cowley Road, East Oxford, towards the scruffy part of town, and in a couple of minutes you would come across Uhuru Wholefoods. Internet sources state that the shop first opened in 1973. I was there at the beginning. I remember it well.
In the early 1970s, wholefoods were a minority thing; beans, buckwheat, and . . .
Blog#9: Buddha Minds
Part One: Gautama Buddha
I've never been completely sold on the 'historical Buddha', as he's sometimes called; this, despite spending many years engaged in Buddhist practice. For me,he has always been a source of instruction rather than inspiration. Learned, wise, a teacher and something of a guide, yes. But rich food for dreams, a . . .
Life Story#8: Food Notes
Part One: Lunchtime
It's a badge of honour from my time as a young person; a crowning glory among the great achievements of my glittering career in academia.
I never - not once - sat down to a school dinner during my entire time in 'education'.
School dinners don't really happen these days, from what I can see. Lunch involves . . .
Blog#8: Take Me To Your Saviour
Part One
It's over four months since 2020 breathed its weary, dreary last, expiring in a fit of flu-like symptoms, fabricated statistics, and renewed imposition of house arrest upon many millions of planetary citizens. But that's not all. In various sectors of the so-called more awake, alternative world, there was a feeling of great . . .
Life Story#7: School's Out
"Schools train you to be ignorant.... they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed, you're going to be alright." Frank Zappa
Part One: General Reflections
Some time near the . . .
Snapshot#2: Fever in India
A clear explanation of the media-induced panic about people getting ill in India.
Blog#7: Where is Taygeta Anyway?
Part One: We Have Contact...
It was sometime last autumn, October most likely. I was browsing through some of the posts in the 'forum' section of the David Icke website. This really is a goldmine of information, especially on the currant bug story. Plenty of valiant souls can be located there, good folk.
At the same time, . . .
