First Published in New Age Consciousness on Medium Dr Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon. He was a staunch atheist, who believed that NDEs were the result of oxygen being [...]
WRITING AS A SOLITARY ACT Let's face it: Writing is often a solitary business but one that is worth every drop of blood that you shed as you lock [...]
What is Meditation? "It's what happy and successful people do," I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other [...]
The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I [...]
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides [...]
The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it [...]
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. [...]
But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a [...]
The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning [...]
Appropriating the American way while writing for Medium 1. Keep physically fit and eat well Fitness: There are so many ways one can manage to do this these days: go [...]
