Category: Discussion
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Cost and Value in a Druid World
All art by Gustaf Tenggren “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” Albert Einstein I listen to BBC Radio 4 a lot, so news and politics are a daily feature in my life. There are always pieces on the cost. Be that the cost to the economy of antisocial behaviour,…
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The Guardians of the Otherworld
All art by Andrew Ostrovsky “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.“ C.S. Lewis I recently had a conversation with a scholar of Irish mythology about the variety of strange creatures and beings which are…
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The Riddle of the Universe
“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” Alan Watts All existence, conscious or unconscious seems to be the emanation of one being, the Absolute, the Universe. These various words, even ‘God’ are a…
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Rational Female
“I used to give too much importance to reason until I discovered the world was shaped not by reason but by emotion” Bangambiki Habyarimana I have no idea how long my own culture and those similar to it have been tending to view rationality as masculine and emotion as feminine. I think it’s an idea…
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Creativity and Human Nature
“Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.” Ai Weiwei One of the biggest and most dangerous mistakes we make is to assume that humans are not natural, that we are capable of acting in ways that are unnatural, and that we are somehow separate from nature. The belief in our separateness…