I honestly believe that starting socially or culturally-based organisations is a lost art. We have too many institutions, bureaucracies, political parties, groups whose aim is to make money for the participants or advancing your career but what about cultural groups? They seem quite low down on the scale of priorities. Where I live in Somerset, I can only recall one group that was started and...
same sex For some reason this has attracted my interest. We speak of heterosexual and homosexual relationships. What does this mean? Does it mean that if I'm attracted to another man I am a homosexual? Does the homosexual bit only fire up when I am sexually attracted to him and want to express it? I do wonder why there is antipathy towards homosexual people, we could call it homophobia. The...
THE POSSIBLE BENEFIT OF COPPER Witness the wonderful copper cups that we have bought, The healing powers of copper have been used since time immemorial and I know they claim copper bangles reduce symptoms of rheumatism. I bought these two cups because a friend of mine said that if you drank water from copper containers it tastes better than from enamel or other containers. We have an energy...
This word represents a particularly severe type of criticism. A context is for example "his latest report to received excoriating reviews". The word comes from the Latin excoriatus, which means to flay, strip off the skin of, to break and remove the outer layers of the skin in any manner. So this word gets to the roots of the problem and deals with it appropriately. 'Excoriatory' is not just...
How can we be an effective evangelist? The association with the word and the Christian gospel is very strong. The word evangelist means the bringer of good news and it comes from the Greek euangelion, a compound of two words eu - meaning good, and angelos meaning messenger or angel. When Jesus was on the Earth he commanded his disciples to 'spread the good news'. The methodology used depends on...
On the occasion of my birthday in June I'm going to have a specialist networking event for those who dwell naturally in the spheres beyond the material level and are focused on the more existential questions such as the development of consciousness. I shall be inviting a cohort of 16 people who probably receive a lot of invitations every week a d are very busy and so I have to have something...
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