Beyond

The urge to write seems to be a purge, to be taken from time to time to express what it is one believes one has learnt.

Faith and Doubt

Most of us have developed a worldview but I wonder how many of us let doubt destroy it?

Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Many now hold that consciousness is a trick, wrought upon an illusory “us” by physics and you may therefore wish to contemplate whether you exist at all.

The Limits of Reasoning

“What Am I” is the most important question I can ask and yet the answer may have to be discovered not by reasoning but by experience. 

Conscious Nonsense

I am deeply disturbed to discover what a search on the word “consciousness” produces when you sift through Wordpress websites.

How to be Human in an indifferent Universe

How damaging we are to each other. How grim the human condition can become, and it does not take war … More

“I” do not exist

I have felt with increasing certainty recently that the Buddhists are right. We have no separate existence, no soul, no fixed place in the universe.

The Mysticism of Blade Runner

Does it sound curious to link a vastly popular work of science fiction to the concept of mysticism? 

The Doors of Perception

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.

“Objective truth” is an illusion.

Unqualified objective truth can not exist.  Heavily qualified objective truth probably does.

Art as metaphysics

I have sometimes wondered whether art has any importance, and if so, what? 

The Existence of Evil

Evil cannot exist without consciousness and free will.

Anger – an Evolutionary Curse

Anger is an invention of the selfish gene, an evolutionary tool for the survival of the fittest. 

A Secular Epiphany

Epiphany is usually thought of in a religious context but it can equally be a secular phenomena where one is struck by some extreme beauty or revelation. 

Renaissance Man: Dead or Alive?

“Renaissance Men” were able to master and practice a number of widely different subjects.  Can it still be done in today’s highly specialised world?

Seeking Consciousness

Consciousness can only be sought through science and empirical, rational thought. 

The Abolition of Suffering

Philosopher David Pearce has a message of overwhelming significance: The Abolition of Suffering can and will be achieved.

What am I?

The question “what am I” is the most important avenue any sentient being can enter.