Month: July 2023

An Open Letter to Nobody: The Duties of Poetry in 2023

[ad_1] It is five years since Alice Oswald’s last book was published, and although this is not an excessive time in the work of a poet, the interruption has been occasioned, of course, by the ‘lockdown’ of the UK for two years between March 2020 and April 2022 and the unprecedented changes to our society […]

The Power of Vipassana for Presence | Eckhart Tolle on Meditation Practices

Eckhart briefly explores Vipassana, a form of Buddhist meditation that focuses on increasing body awareness and reducing attention given to thoughts. Want to watch and hear more of Eckhart’s Teachings? Become a member today and join our growing YouTube community! http://bit.ly/ETmembership Did you find this short preview video helpful? Do you want more peace of […]

RFK’s Bid for the Presidency

[ad_1]   These include the implications of a biomedical surveillance state that unilaterally announces lockdowns that suspend and destroy civil liberties and mandate vaccines that don’t stop transmission and indeed cause harm (see also here, here, here, here, here, here and here). We may add to this litany of grievances the fact that any opposition, […]

Marx: A Great Thinker? | UKColumn

[ad_1] This year marked the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’ death. Today, he is still considered by many both within and beyond the academic sphere as one of humanity’s greatest thinkers of all time. Not only did he provide the ideological impetus for Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro and many other mass-murdering revolutionaries; he […]

Slavoj ĆœiĆŸek presents: ‘The Only Way Out of Global Catastrophes is Through’

We should mobilize the distinction between apocalypse and catastrophe, reserving the term ‘catastrophe’ for what GĂŒnther Anders called “naked apocalypse.” Apocalypse, “an uncovering” in Ancient Greek, is a disclosure or revelation of knowledge; in religious speech, what apocalypse discloses is something hidden, the ultimate truth we are blind for in our ordinary lives. Today we […]

The true significance of King Charles’ and Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation Oaths

[ad_1] By way of corroboration, another text—this one by Richard O’Sullivan, The Inheritance of Common Law (1950)—states that: Hubert Walter (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury) and Henry of Bracton were at pains to argue that it is not absurd to call the Law and Customs of England, though they are not written, by the name of […]