Life Story#6: White Rabbits
Part One
It was on Saturday mornings that the thunk at the letterbox in the hallway denoted the arrival of the latest edition of 'Peace News'. My father would sit transfixed over morning eggs and bacon as he pored over the latest accounts of grisly happenings in Vietnam, Biafra, and elsewhere, not to mention the constant threat of total . . .
Snapshot#1: Return of the Untouchables
My former Buddhist teacher hailed from England: Tooting, South London, to be exact. He did, however, spend twenty years, focussed around the 1950s, in India. It was here that he learnt most about Buddhism, studying and practicing with a variety of prominent Buddhist teachers, notably several Tibetans fresh into India from their . . .
Blog#6: There's Something in the Air
Part One: A Learned Conversation
What is a virus? Well, it's something that makes you ill. It can make you very ill. It can cause you to end up a prisoner in your own house for weeks on end, it can be so dangerous. What a silly question: what is a virus? Everybody knows what a virus is.
"How do you know what a virus is?"
. . .
Life Story#5: Fixing the Matrix
Part One
Early 1960s. I was climbing trees, buying my first records (Del Shannon, Eden Kane, what taste....). As an ironic backdrop to the feelgood element which pervaded a good deal of my childhood personal life, some of the grown-ups were playing another game altogether. Men - it seemed to be mainly men - in suits and ties were . . .
Action on Very Basic Freedoms
The UK tyranny based in Westminster has in place a 'request for evidence on covid-19 status certification'. In more normal lingo, these are 'vaccine passports' for eventual domestic use.
As somebody who understands the programme put it back last summer: they probably won't make the injections mandatory (that's too obvious), but . . .
Blog#5: Forbidden Histories, the Continuation
'To know where you are and where you are going, it helps enormously to know where you have come from. Indeed it is essential.' David Icke, 'Children of the Matrix'
Part One
The past, especially the ancient and human past, was a fascination to me from an early age. And the allure of the topic arose precisely from the considerations . . .
Life Story#4: Bad, Good, Ugly
Part One: The Pain
My former Buddhist teacher did a lot of writing about his life. He once said "The first thing you do when you decide to write about your life is realise what you are not going to write." This was quite amusing. However, I would go a step further. The first thing you do when you decide to write about your life . . .
