The materialist/reductionists who seek to diminish what we are as humans will be desperately disappointed to hear that their own special God—science—has proven that something of us survives...

After a talk I gave the other week, a woman came up to me with a very well-thumbed copy of Time-Light, with lots of underlines, and pages earmarked. She reads it and re-reads it, she said, and she...

It’s been reckoned (and don’t ask me how) that we are bombarded with 16 million bits of information every second. We process just 16 bits of that, although recent research in neuroscience has...

A mystery lies at the heart of everything. We’re very rarely aware of this because of language, and the words and syntax we use every day. Words are merely pointers, and yet we use them as...

Have you heard the one about the London taxi driver who recognised the passenger in the back of the cab as the famous philosopher Bertrand Russell. “So I turned to ‘im,” says the cabbie...

Philosophers call them naïve realists, although in the time of Kant they were known as dogmatists. They’re the folk who believe in an absolute, objective world. When asked the age-old...

What have our feelings got to do with what we believe? Short answer: everything. In fact, when you think you’re having a rational debate, you’re probably not engaging with the other...

I upset a Zen monk the other day. I didn’t mean to, of course. In fact, I used to love the Zen koans – What’s the sound of one hand clapping? What was your face before you were born?...

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman has figured out that we can think through a problem one of two ways: fast or slow. Most of us choose the first way. It’s the knee-jerk, immediate thought, often...

I caught a Sunday morning television programme this week that walked the ancient, and well-trod, path of Religion vs Science. The religious fraternity said science doesn’t have all the answers...

I’ve been reading a book that, part way through, touches on the most radical and transformative element of Time-Light. The book is Robert M Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

As I have nothing to say this week, I shall say nothing. Actually, I’m always saying nothing, it’s just that usually it’s well disguised. But this week, it really is nothing – other than...