In the first three paragraphs, John Ruskin is describing his 1849 visit to the Grande Chartreuse. This is the head-monastery of the Carthusian (Catholic) monastic
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John Ruskin on Byron’s ‘Perfect’ Revolutionary Paragraph
‘Of course, I could no more measure Byron’s greatest powers at this time than I could Turner’s; but I saw that both were right in
Does Consciousness Survive Death?
This essay could just as easily be termed ‘Does Consciousness Pre-Exist Birth?’ Of course, a consciousness of this definition is really a modern interpretation of the
The Importance of ‘Energy’ as a ‘Medicine’
I have no interest in the business that is Energy Medicine (indeed, I believe all healing should be ‘free’), and even less interest in this
Gongfu Practice and Conscious Awareness
Form practice is the essence of traditional Chinese gongfu training. The old masters had survived numerous battles (and other challenges), and cleverly formulated a method
It Might Well Be Rocket Science…
I have pursued a careful path of material science regarding the accumulation of reliable data about inner and outer reality, but in doing so I
