Education is power And food and exercise (especially in nature) is powerful medicine. Eating a wholefood, largely plant-based diet can improve immunity dramatically. But during the Covid pandemic, we were told to wear masks, get vaccinated, keep our distance, and wash our hands. Nothing in government advice from any nation referred to diet…

As the single being upon the earth that possesses understanding, man is certainly titular lord of nature and, supposing we regard nature as a teleological system, he is born to be its ultimate end. So said Immanuel Kant, in a quote that pivots on what Paul Taylor clearly recognised was…

In his book, The Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay says of humanity, “it has been well said, they think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one”. So let’s recover our senses, and in doing…

Stimulus: I’m late. Sweat runs down my sides. I’m embarrassed. The world has moved on without me. How to escape the sense of inadequacy? Bring attention to the BRAIN! B: Take awareness to the breath. There it is. It’s still going on, birth to death. R: Cherie, my left-brain emotional…

I’m learning as I go. As you know, I’m a yoga and meditation teacher and I’m also a non dualist, in the sense that I believe that what’s going on in the world is entirely interconnected with what’s going on in my own brain and experience. We see what we’re…

My pandemic (so far — it’s an ongoing phenomenon) has been relatively benign. I’ve been vaccinated three times, twice with Pfizer, once with Moderna, and had no ill effects, not so much as a sniffle. I caught COVID once, about six months after the third vaccination, and although I think…

Yesterday I wrote about the debate between allowing capitalism to solve the mess we’re in or needing to change the system entirely. Today, I want to explore the idea that perhaps it’s not an either/or question. Gey klop kop af vant. Go bang your head against the wall, is one…

I just received a link on Mastodon saying that Dr Jeremy Leggett on behalf of Highlands Rewilding bought the 3500 acre Tayvallich Estate in Argyll via crowdfunding for £10 million. They intend to allow the estate to rewild, but they will also take into account the local community, its needs…

I’m not interested in Chat GPT writing a story for me, because for me, the whole point of writing a story is, as Steven Pressfield might say, to allow the Muse to amuse itself through me. This means that I am a channel for something much larger and more subtle…