One way of testing one’s understanding of social and spiritual principles is to make predictions and then see if they turn out the way you expect. Here are a few questions that one might currently have in mind.
1) Donald Trump has expressed an intenti
Hace poco platicaba con alguien acerca de cuando te conviertes en víctima. Que pasaba cuando alguien se convertía y que significaba ser víctima. Mi opinión personal es que le quitamos toda responsabilidad a alguien cuando te da lástima o sientes pena
Read more…For some time now I have been predicting the rearmament of Europe. Now Mr Junker in his address is starting the ball rolling. Brexit facilitates this process. The UK has always been a brake upon it. The balance of forces since WWII has been a deal in
Read more…When one looks back on history - and I am now old enough to look back upon a snippet of it - one sees that there are periods of vibrancy and periods of dullness. Unless I am missing something, we are currently in a dull period. There are also dark pe
Read more…This thread is an invitation to record the really important things yhat often get missed.
To start us off I want to note that Larry the cat is to stay in 10 Downing Street when David Cameron and his family leave. I'm sure the prime minister has done
Read more…Dear Dharmavidya and Amida Shu friends, I find it profoundly sad disappointing that the minds of fear, hatred, and Xenophobia seem to be winning. Naively, I had been lulled into a false sense of accomplishment, believing my generation's struggles aga
Read more…When I originally posted this post as a blog, I was expecting that Britain would vote to remain in the EU. However, now that I have been wrong about that we are definitely entering more "interesting times" to quote the Chinese curse.
I expect that t
In history there seem to be cycles, or, perhaps, pendular swings might be a better term. For quite a long time we have been in an era of 'globalisation' and it has rather seemed to be as an inevitable and unstoppable linear progress. Although there m
Read more…So we now have an almost completely new team at the top of British government ,with the two key posts of Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary going to people who are well-known due to the referendum campaign and being mayor of London but who have not
Read more…All systems are impermanent, but while they are in favour they seem eternal, at least as far as the future is concerned. Feudalism must have seemed so until absolute monachies made it seem old hat. Democracy seems so nowadays, but one should not be c
Read more…I have been wondering for some time if/when turkey would invade part of Syria. The area occupied by Islamic State is Sunni Muslim, as is Turkey. The government on the coast backed by Russia is Shiite. It has been apparent for some time that Turkey ha
Read more…In the news today are speculations that the TTIP negotiations are in trouble. TTIP is the attempt to negotiate a near-to-free trade agreement between the EU and the USA. It is already well behind schedule and has come in for a lot of criticism from t
Read more…These are times of important political changes that also have big economic implications. Sometimes it seems that 'being spiritual' implies distancing oneself from current affairs. One aims to rise above such things. It is certainly true that a spirit
Read more…I was brought up with terrorism. As a child on the island of Cyprus during the struggle for independence from Britain I heard bombs going off every night. Friends of my parents were killed. My school as a fortress. The school bus was an armoured pers
Read more…Speaking very broadly, it is possible, I think, to discern periods when popular concern is focussed on inner matters, like personal happiness and reduction of stress, and other periods when concern is focussed on outer questions - political, economic
Read more…Now that the Republican Party has chosen its candidate and the Democratic Party is on the verge of doing so, I am creating a space here for discussion. The USA is the most powerful country in the world militarily and economically, so we are all affec
Read more…If Islamic State is destroyed, who will we pick as an enemy next? After all, if we don't have an enemy we shall not be able to keep all this 'security' in place and without that kind of coercion, how is the population going to be kept under control?
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