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Ayurvedic Retreat India
Sep 7, 2015 11:23AM WST
SOMATHEERAN AYRUVEDIC HOSPITAL & RESORT. --- Diary of Dennis Sheppard, August 2015 These are some notes I have written about the treatment we received when Heidi and I spent a couple of weeks at the Somatheeram ... Read More
The Conscious Mind, The Sub Conscious and The Double Slit.
May 14, 2015 07:45AM WST
Quantum Mechanics is a wondrous study of reality. It poses conundrums that are hard to reconcile, like “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle”. There is a well-known thought experiment that illustrates this ... Read More
Ajahn Chah and the Question of Will
Feb 22, 2015 12:48PM WST
I would like to address a myth or a confusion that holds “will” as an ultimate energy for enlightenment. The idea that a fully realised person has full control over themselves and perhaps their environment! ... Read More
A Question of Will
Feb 22, 2015 12:21PM WST
People talk about the world being just “as it is”! “It is as it is” seems to be a wise statement of the obvious, but then, if we can see that it is not wise to have the world as it is, we do by and ... Read More
Quantum Mechanics --- An embarrassment?
Jan 3, 2015 08:38AM WST
I wrote this this blog in response to a question from a friend who asked me to comment on the following Video Clip “Quantum Mechanics” (An Embarrassment) I know Neils Bohr famously said that “if you think ... Read More
A Moral Code
Jan 2, 2015 10:48AM WST
This blog started as a letter written to comment on an item in Geraldine Doogue’s Saturday Extra program on the ABC’s Radio National. A link to the item is here:Quest for a Moral CompassOne of Geraldine’s ... Read More
SAPIENS --- a brief history of human kind.
Nov 28, 2014 09:16AM WST
Comments from a Buddhist Perspective. This 2014 book written by Yuval Noah Harari, a popular academic from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is a winner. His quirky approach brings various important streams of ... Read More
The Good and Bad of the Human Condition!
Oct 21, 2014 14:56PM WST
I was discussing the recent spate of beheadings, crucifixions and general atrocities currently going on in the Middle East. This stuff is being brought into my consciousness one way or another through various media feeds and ... Read More
Form, Space and Consciousness.
Oct 2, 2014 09:08AM WST
When I peer out into the night sky and wonder what it all means, I am struck not only by the mystery, but also by the beauty and magnificence of what I perceive. In these moments a literal truth or knowing is quite palpable ... Read More
Embedded Conditions in Consciousness
Jul 12, 2014 09:03AM WST
We take our lives to be so real. Our bodies our thoughts! Personal views and opinions can seem so right, but how did we get fixated with such certainty? True, ideas can change, there is flexibility, we can empathise, ... Read More
Consciousness is Fungible
Jun 30, 2014 20:47PM WST
Fungible is a word I heard just recently. It was used by a commentator on the ABC in the context of explaining the perceived trickery that Governments employ when bringing in new taxes. Fungibility essentially means that ... Read More
Something to Die For!
Apr 14, 2014 08:48AM WST
My wife Heidi suggested that this may be a good title for a verse or poem that I had been playing around with. I had just finished writing a poem about Belief, Proselytising and Fighting for Truth, then “Knowing the ... Read More
Children and Past Lives.
Dec 9, 2013 20:12PM WST
Following on from my last blog that looked at “Belief in Past Lives”, I would like to follow up with what is a huge part of this subject, which for the most part flies totally under the radar. This is the subject ... Read More
Belief in Past Lives
Dec 6, 2013 14:01PM WST
Recently I have had some rather interesting results from the hypnosis sessions that I offer. I work mainly with past life issues and it is not unusual to have all sorts of events unfold. I believe that many of the narratives ... Read More
Meaning in Life
Sep 1, 2013 14:42PM WST
What does it mean to be alive? Where do I find truth? What is enlightenment?These are three very good questions for anyone to contemplate. I would like to explore them from a Buddhist perspective. So to start we need ... Read More
