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The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
Exploring the intersection of philosophy, science, and the human condition. Ultimately, these essays constitute a philosophical magazine that attempts to reconcile aesthetic beauty with the harsh realities of existence.
Latest Essays
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The Cranmer Prayer Book – does it still have relevance?
In the immortal words of Randolf Churchill “God, isn’t God a shit!”.
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Omnism
Or letsism, if you prefer. The nuns twittered a capella, the priest intoned the prayers.
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The tranquil beauty of The Morvan
What a deceptive and misleading face it puts on.
From the Archives
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City of Iniquity
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood and stablisheth a city by iniquity.
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Song of the Abbey
In an ancient abbey on a remote hilltop they sang to their god in harmony.
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On Choosing Happiness
I believe on any number of counts, including personal experience, that we have the power to choose to be happy but the road is not altogether straightforward.
Meditation
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Meditation – Proof of the Pudding
Does it work?
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Meditation – a wider perspective
So much can be found on the internet on the subject of meditation, and so little of it has any value.
To open the Wardrobe Door, to enter the Wood Betwen the Worlds. Through the Doors of Perception to touch the Infinite. Becoming as one with the Void.
Categories
The Inner Path
The journey toward inner stillness, emotional resilience, and freedom from mental disturbance.
The Human Zoo
A critique of human society, economics, and politics, paired with a vision for a kinder, cooperative world.
The Creative Cosmos
Exploring the nature of the physical universe, consciousness, emergent order, and the possibility of free will.
Windows to the Numinous
Experiencing the sacred, awe, and transcendence through art, music, architecture, and nature without needing supernatural beliefs.
The Imaginal Realm
Using myth, literature, and story as lenses to illuminate deep existential truths that raw analytical facts cannot fully convey.