In which we discuss various matters in and around an academic paper published in 2012 on the topic of After Birth Abortion. Paper – https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261 Transcription 51 -54 minutes – (audio interference) ”The principle they took as a starting point…
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Rene Guenon’s Critique of Theosophy
A presentation based on the book by René Guénon – Theosophy : History of a Pseudo-Religion. Including contextualising material bringing the story of Theosophy, it’s teachers, doctrines and influence into recent times. Music – The Spirit of Russian Love by…
The Way and The Mountain ~ Marco Pallis
Very nice book. Written in 1960. ”The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis’ most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition…
Posted in Buddhism, Uncategorized
A Song On The End of the World ~ Czeslaw Milosz
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump in the sea, By the rainspout young sparrows are playing And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.…
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
To Posterity ~ Bertolt Brecht
1. Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. He who laughs Has not yet heard The terrible tidings. Ah, what an age it is When to speak…
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Earth ~ David Walcott
Let the day grow on you upward through your feet, the vegetal knuckles, to your knees of stone, until by evening you are a black tree; feel, with evening, the swifts thicken your hair, the new moon rising out of…
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Nagarjuna
“I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have. This frightens all children, And kills fear in the wise.” Nagarjuna, lived between approximately 150 and 250 AD (CE). The name means ”noble serpent”. …
Posted in Buddhism, Uncategorized
"Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.'' ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 | Radioactive Ruminati… on Birth at Balsamic Moon |
 | A.D. on Birth at Balsamic Moon |
| Radioactive Ruminati… on Birth at Balsamic Moon |
 | Amanda on Birth at Balsamic Moon |
| A.D. on Sometimes ~ Mary Oliver |
