Altered states – a look at dissociation
Our minds can do all sorts of strange things to protect us when we’re in tough situations. One of the more...
Crisis? What crisis?
Those words were attributed to Prime Minister Jim Callaghan in 1979. He’d just returned from a Caribbean summit...
I’m on holiday but don’t ask me where
Windsor Castle is on a direct flight path to Heathrow airport. Boeing 767s, Airbuses and the like fly low overhead on...
Blaise of Glory – The Night of Fire
Part two of the story of Pascal – a demonstration of the power of thinking for yourself In part one I looked...
Blaise of Glory – Daring to be original
Part one of the story of Pascal Are you the sort of person who forms their opinions and their view of life more on the...
How to relax when you’re running a world war
Do you sometimes find it hard to switch off? Have you ever come back from a break saying, ‘It was nice but work was...
Spring clean yourself
Heaven knows what possessed him do it. HIs Managing Director had spotted that his company van looked like it had...
Buddha was right – the world’s an illusion
Everything you’re seeing, hearing, touching and smelling is an illusion – a show put on for you by your brain. If...
I wanna be like you
Why did he copy his tormentors? As a child and later a teenager in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, President Xi Jinping of...
New Year, New Hope
You may have a great opportunity before you, presented by a New Year. As we stand at the end of the old and the start...