Attenborough in snow
25
Jan
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Category Archives: life
Ad hominem? Sileo iam meus theca!
20
Jan
Some Latinates are so commonplace I’ve stopped italicising them. Ergo, etcetera – what kind of anal repressive writes that out in full anyway? – and the Facto Sisters, De and Ipso, are cases in point. Others I now find so … Read More »
How I joined a cult. Part 6: Science!
18
Jan
Continued from Part 5 Note the child. Many kids appreciate the benefits and take well to meditation. The ’80s BBC 1 series QED – that which was to be proved – popularised scientific principles by applying them in various arenas. … Read More »
On a commuter train to Perth, Scotland
1
Jan
Just another dreary Monday morning – but what happens next has generated 27.5 million hits on Youtube.
In the sweet embrace of opacity
31
Dec
Attenborough on the last day of 2020 … A happy new year to one and all …
How I joined a cult. Part 5: Ineffability
29
Dec
The Andrew Cohen Community at Foxhollow, Massachusetts, 2002 Did I fail in Part 4 to show, as any storyteller should, those ‘deep’ or ‘heightened’ states of ‘non dual’ consciousness I say were milestones on my road to culthood? In fairness … Read More »
My December Reads
27
Dec
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
250 today – never roll over, Beethoven!
17
Dec
I know nothing that would equal the Appassionata. I could hear it played every day. Marvellous, supernatural music. When I hear it, I always think, maybe with naive, childish pride: What wonders human beings are capable of accomplishing! Lenin. A quarter-millennium ago … Read More »
How I joined a cult. Part 4: Who am I?
16
Dec
Continued from part 3 … On the road to Rishikesh/I was dreaming more or less/And the dream I had was real/And the dream I had was real … John wrote those lines shortly before the Beatles, disillusioned by the Maharishi’s … Read More »
Why I respect Caitlin Johnstone
11
Dec
An exchange below one of my pieces in OffGuardian a few months ago had me ‘othered’ by a posse of commentariat for “approvingly” quoting writers this armchair clan frowns upon. How did I recognise my BTL detractors as an armchair … Read More »