09/05/2012
Here’s a statistic I personally find horrifying. In the past few years, there’s been a 50% decline of children aged nine to twelve spending time in outdoor activities (hiking, walking, fishing, beach play). Why? Three guesses. Because their brains are completely glued to iPhones, laptops, Facebook, DVDs, Wiis and other devices humming with radiation. There’s [...]
10/04/2012
I received an email from a psychic history-loving friend last night which read: “I wanted to ask you what you think of this Titanic voyage recreation that’s happening at the moment. My first thought was how crazy to recreate a fatal voyage but then I started thinking about it in terms of healing the past, [...]
14/03/2012
Here in the West, we don’t hear much about the spiritualism of the Hawaiian people. According to Renata Provenzano, a Dutch-born Australian who has taken many trips to the islands of Hawaii, which she describes as”coming home”, the indigenous beliefs are fascinating, thought-provoking and deeply educational for us Westerners. Some years ago, Renata received a [...]
13/03/2012
Reprinted by popular request from my weekly newsletter: You probably heard the word ‘Kony’ this week. If you were on Twitter, it might have looked something like this: #LRA, #Kony2012 #InvisibleChildren. If you flipped across to Kyle and Jackie O on the radio, you would have heard some American dude saying a whole lot of [...]
15/02/2012
I’ve started to laugh when people pose the question really earnestly and seriously: “Could aliens actually be walking among us?” Newsflash: THEY ARE. They always have been. I’m not talking about little green men, Men In Black, UFO thingies or anything the words ‘Roswell’ or ‘Hollywood’ bring to mind. My understanding of this is as [...]