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How can be broaden our minds

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Academic philosopher, Simon Critchley explores why Mysticism is about existential ecstasy – an experience of heightening one’s senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness and provides a fascinating overview of Christianity’s great outliers. Mystical experiences offers us a practical way to open out thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Whether so-called “mystical” experiences are felt to be religious, spiritual aesthetic or something else, people have been trying to report, describe, and make sense of this strange kind of ecstasy for a thousand … Continue reading How can be broaden our minds

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Death is on the prowl

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Samsara is  a world-class spa nestled in the Indian Himalayas where all your wishes were only a gilded notecard away. Ro Krishna has just checked in.  With his rakish charm, Oxford education, and perfect hair, he had it all, until he left his job under mysterious circumstances, It was super hectic, and Ro decides it’s time for some much-needed R&R. At Samsara he is free to explore the innumerable yoga classes to rebalance their privileged existence, wellness treatments and guided-meditation session on offer alongside the rest of the exclusive hotel’s guests. Until one of the guests -gorgeous, charismatic, well-connected, like … Continue reading Death is on the prowl

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I don’t think you know what’s coming – ecstatic misery

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A story of live and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends Thomas Hart, a journalist on the Essex Chronicle, and Grace Macauley (17),  small and plump, with skin that went brown by the end of Maym and who is “by nature a thief if she found a thing to be beautiful , but not hers”. worshipers at the Bethesda Baptist chapel in the small fictional Essex town of Aldleigh.  Thomas who is 50 and writes a column for the newspaper on scientific and astronomical topics, which brings him into connection … Continue reading I don’t think you know what’s coming – ecstatic misery

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You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs

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Indian born Fareed Zakaria, who claim to be America’s best-known tutor on world events, quotes from Civilisation, the classic 1960s BBC series narrated by Kenneth Clark, an art historian.“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.” Kenneth Clark said. Age of Revolutions chronicles ceaseless action and reaction , progress and backlash, that has been endemic to the modern age. Zakaria  dates the birth of the liberal nation state to the 16th-century Netherlands, which is where  his book begins. He ends after … Continue reading You can destroy by cynicism and disillusion better than by bombs

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Is it the beginning or the end of humanity?

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Google’s top artificial intelligence researcher Blaise Aguera y Arcas, has developed a fascination with humanity, and according to her if we are to build intelligent machines to do what humans want, we first need to understand what humans want. In a world where identities , beliefs and genders have become so fluid with identity politics occupying the front line in today’s culture wars, pitting generations against each other, and progressive cities against the rural traditions of our past.   Aguera y Arcas armed with a geek’s obsession surveyed tens and thousands of American between 2016 and 2022 about their identity … Continue reading Is it the beginning or the end of humanity?