Robert Darr reflects on his long relationship with the people and culture of this ancient land, and shares his insights into its present situation
“No matter how powerful you are, there is nothing you can do to counteract the effect of beauty… the Taliban ultimately can’t succeed because the Afghan people are too strongly rooted in their music and poetry.”
Richard Gault | reviews the autobiography of Federico Faggin, the man who invented the silicon chip, who is now putting forward a new theory of consciousness
Adrian Rance-McGregor reviews the life of a pioneering 20th century mystic, and the message of one of his most insightful books, ‘A New Vision of Reality’
“Bede discovered new scientific paradigms that created a situation in which a universal and integrated vision of the world could incorporate modern scientific thinking.”
Scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup discusses his critique of materialism and argues that reality is essentially mental
”If we absorb the notion that matter is only an appearance, then suddenly the entire physical world becomes like a book to be read because it’s an indication – a sign – of something behind it.“
Joanna Lapage-Browne | pays tribute to a visionary thinker whose lifework was to revive the tradition of Kabbalah for the contemporary world
Dharmacharini Suryagupta, Chair of the London Buddhist Centre, talks about the transformative power of Buddhism in the contemporary world
“Compassion has wisdom at the heart of it – not only the understanding that we are not separate beings, but also the knowledge that we are tapped into a huge reservoir of love.”