The Price of Uplift

The Price of Uplift

There is a price to pay for continued uplift. That is, the effort to maintain strident focus on the positive. As uplift continues, the negative is still known to you. But you must no longer indulge it for cheap thrills. You must choose the higher enjoyment. Casual...
Telepathy Amongst Friends

Telepathy Amongst Friends

Rosemary Brown had marked spiritual experiences from an early age. Later, as a widow with children, she found herself forced to rest at home following a workplace accident. To pass the time, Rosemary sat at the piano and found her hands guided to play unknown music....
My body knows what to do – a bicycle anecdote

My body knows what to do – a bicycle anecdote

I got on my pushy today for the first time in 9 months (it’s been raining a lot this year!) Rare in my life to be sans-bicycle for so long. Anyway, I took it out of the garage and oiled the chain and checked the brakes worked. You’ve got to do that when you live by...
Materialism is a death cult

Materialism is a death cult

I know that I am having an experience. That is the thing I am most sure of, that is the primary knowledge that I have. I am having an experience. I do not know if I am dreaming, and I do not know that waking experience is more real that dreaming experience. It seems...
Yoga teacher Josh Pryor releases new book

Yoga teacher Josh Pryor releases new book

(First published Sept 20th 2021 in the Newcastle Herald) In the Himalayas, Newcastle yoga teacher Josh Pryor found a new way to communicate about yoga. “During my years practicing physical yoga, I had been studying Sanskrit texts from Indian libraries that had...