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This is a transcript from a Mindsprings Practice Space session. I’ve got a great question from one of our community, who submitted it in...

Another scoop from the archives. Funnily enough, I may have changed my mind from the rather Puritan stance voiced in this blog in the...

From the date on the cartoon, this blog was originally written in 2008. An almost mythically long time ago. But the thoughts on caring...

I was on a powerful retreat in the Devon countryside a few weeks back and I had a startling flash of memory from my childhood. I recalled...

A blog piece refurbished from the archives. But no one tires of hearing about amazing teenagers and the vast sweep of the future that...

This is another blog fished out of the annals. I probably wrote it about 10 years ago. I have subsequently read Joyce’s magnum opus for...

Adrian’s boyfriend was telling me about epiphytic plants which are not directly parasitic on the tree they dwell on but rather hop on…

That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh

that phrases like ‘I’ve got a gut feeling about this’ turn out to be literally correct.

This is a tidied up transcript of an answer I gave in the Live Sessions in February 2021. Tamsyn mentioned her dislike of reading Freud...

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...

Karen spoke about feeling trapped in the present. As meditators, we’re always encouraged to stay in the present and “be here now”, but...

NOTE: I think in this last blog I am in some sense arguing myself OUT of a position that I have thoughtlessly held for many years. That...

In the first part of this blog on language and thinking, I argued that the human experience of thinking is fundamentally grounded in...

I’ve been grappling with the issue of language/thinking for many decades, but lately have had a few clarifying insights that I’d like to...