Living Without A Centre
Thank you to all of who have bought my new book, The Untrue Story of You. And to those of you still thinking about it, here are the Amazon links (!): UK...
I am happy, I am sad
The cat is sitting on the mat. The cat isn’t sitting on the mat. It’s a contradiction, and one of those ‘facts’ has to go (even for you quantum physicists, the cat is either sitting on the...
The lonely path
The spiritual path can be a lonely one. At times it will lead you away from old friends and make you question long-term relationships. It was perhaps this realisation of being alone that inspired...
Proving you have a soul
It’s been a week of packing and unpacking as we move offices. Things that I thought were lost—such as part of my driving licence—have been found, and papers that inexplicably I’d saved...
What Kant said to the skeptic
Science is one of the great triumphs of modern times. It has given us so many luxuries and benefits—and a few problems, too—but some of its over-zealous advocates go further and argue that...
What karma really is
Every religion has the concept of karma, or ‘reap as you sow’ as Christianity puts it. The idea suggests that we shape our future by our actions today, but I think it is far more subtle-and...
Who wants to be happy?
We want to be happy, we want to be successful, we want to be fulfilled—perhaps we want to be rich. But while we want all those things, and possibly other things too, few of us stop for a moment...
Read all about it
The UK’s leading New Age magazine, "Kindred Spirit", features me in the latest issue (November/December). Because of limited space, they weren’t able to include all the questions and answers...
How your past affects you right now
Very few of us get that the past is very much alive and well. It is an energetic pattern that lives on in us and shapes our life and even our health every day. It can be the cause of depression...
True healing
The other day I was on a radio show when a caller phoned in. She said she had suffered from feelings of scarcity and lack for more than 20 years, and she had tried every therapy under the sun to...
How do we achieve real and lasting change?
People reading my book, The Untrue Story of You, can easily understand that the past plays a part in our lives—but few realise just how much it shapes us and everything we do. The central koan...
The past is alive and well
I was watching a TV programme the other evening about depression, and the people on the show described it as a mental illness. As a former sufferer of chronic depression, this shocked me because I...