Death of the ‘Usual‘: Humanity is faced with a series of self-made, interrelated crises, from the environmental catastrophe to poverty, inequality, the absence of peace and an unprecedented level of displaced persons, among other pressing issues. Read more
Living in an Age of Desire and Anxiety: Overwhelmed by anxiety and image insecurity a friend’s 20-year-old daughter recently quit her university course. Read more
The Choice of a Future Beyond Left and Right: Every day we are faced with numerous choices, some relating to practical issues and others based on more complex psychological demands. Read more
Death. Readiness Is All * It is the one great certainty in life – the shared inevitability for all humanity, and yet death and dying is rarely discussed. Read more
Maitreya: The Coming One for all Humanity: Bombarded with one negative news story after another, many people feel a pervasive pessimism close at hand. Read more
Searching for Peace in a Troubled World: Throughout his Christmas message and in keeping with the hymn of the time, Pope Francis repeatedly called for Peace in our World. Read more
Is Something Amazing Afoot? Miracles and the Gradual Emergence of Maitreya: To claim that miracles even exist in our world, dominated as it is by materialism and greed, and to then speak of the imminent coming of The World Teacher. Read more
Civilization in Transition, Uncertainty and Opportunity: British filmmaker Adam Curtis recently released his new documentary ‘HyperNormalisation’. Read more
Silence Please: The worlds we inhabit are noisy places. The external environment – particularly cities, where over half the population now live, suffocates under a cacophony of competing sounds. Read more
Whats the Point in Any of It? Does the purpose of our lives change with age; does the life of a thirty-something have more point to it, than say a fifty-year-old, a sixty-year-old. Read more
Education: Time for a New Purpose : Given the catalogue of calamities raging round the world, one could be forgiven for concluding that we are a civilisation in terminal decline. Read more
The Pain of Modern Life: Loneliness and Isolation: Humanity is a group. As Mohandas Gandhi famously said: “All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family.” Read more
Education for a New Time: The Purpose of Education: Is there an underlying purpose for education, a fundamental aim or series of aims, which is the responsibility of educators to discover. Read more
The Pain of Modern life: Suicide – a Worldwide Epidemic: A friend recently asked to meet for coffee. ‘I’ve had some more bad news,’ his text said. Read more
Hope and Wonder Amidst the Misery: A friend’s five year old daughter recently asked him to ‘turn off the radio news’ because its ‘always so miserable’. Read more
Transitional Times or the End Times? Many there are, who seeing the violent turmoil raging throughout large parts of the world, fear humanity and the planet is on the verge of destruction. Read more
Corporate Capitalism Versus Human happiness: Happiness, or at least the search for it, is a human right. Read more
Goals of the New Way: Unity in Diversity: Well-informed, well-read, and by nature compassionately optimistic. Read more
Competition Corrupts Minds and Actions: Cooperation is Needed: The 12 billion US $ festival of football (the most expensive in its 84 year history) has reached its climax. Read more
A revolution of ideas is needed: The time for change is now: The mode of contemporary living is in many ways dysfunctional. Read more
Materialism and Misery: We live under the omnipresent shadow of a political/economic system, which promotes materiality, selfishness and individual success over group wellbeing. Read more
Changing Times and the Emergence of the New: A Tale of Hope and Wonder: There is a controversial story abroad, which says that in our midst lives a great and wise teacher. Read more
A Civilization in Collapse, the Dawn of a New Order? There can be little doubt that we are living through extraordinary times. Read more
Seeking Happiness Beyond Neo-Liberal Consumerism: Irrespective of nationality, religion, race, or gender happiness is the one thing everyone is seeking. Read more
The Omnipresent Pressure to Conform: It was the school holidays and there were lots of teenagers in my local park. Read more