Life after death?

This article is fascinating Click Here to go to the Daily Mail website.

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chronic fatigue syndrome

Strangler of plans
Smotherer of life.
Death with the heart still beating.
Zombie
Buried in unrefreshing sleep.

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Early Computor Technology?

Another thought provoking article in the Daily Mail this Saturday (I am not a regular reader of this or other newspapers, I just read Saturday editions over the weekend!).
link to article
I remember reading about these objects a while ago in an old Arthur C. Clarke book. It is a fascinating subject though one I [...]

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Worth a read

I have just noticed this review in the Saturday Guardian.
Anatomy of melancholy
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader sounds interesting. The term depression is used as an umbrella explanation for a myriad health issues and to some extent for personality differences. Melancholy used to be used to describe personality type in the [...]

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And the Archangel came down from Heaven on high and he did spake….

And verily he sayeth…..Shop ‘til you drop, dude, the sales are on.
The shops stayed open late on Christmas Eve and some were open at 7.00am Boxing Day. If you got panicky inbetween you could visit the virtual sales online throughout Christmas Day. Slow down and take a step back for a second. Why? Should we [...]

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Look around you at Christmas.

I know I revert up into my Headmind, staring with disbelief at people, my inner critic, the whinging old man voice going into overdrive. To me it seems that most people’s over-riding emotion as Christmas Day drags to a close is one of relief. Relief that it went off okay. They have dashed around the [...]

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Words of Wisdom

I wanted to link to these to blog posts on Reverse Thinking, they are very valuable reading:
Why Worry?
and
It will take just 37 seconds to read this and change your thinking..
Both Mark McGuinness and John Eaton are inspiring, innovative and great people to listen to. It has certainly helped me to know Mark.

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Jekyll & Hyde. part three

The Jekyll and Hyde story can be interpreted as a cautionary tale about integration or dis-integration of the human psyche.. Without one the other dies. In this story the protagonists fight each other for supremacy. An internal (and eternal) struggle in all our psyches. As simple as the dilemma “do we follow our head or [...]

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Jekyll & Hyde. part two

The Jekyll & Hyde story concerns itself more with the inner personal conflict, the dark, individualised secret that exiles Jekyll from civilised society and acceptable behaviour. It is, primarily, an inner moral dilemma, sparked, it most be noted, by a self created potion (an interesting pre-cursor to the development of the werewolf/scientist themes in 1950’s [...]

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Jekyll and Hyde. part one

Very obvious parallels can be drawn between the mythology of the werewolf and the Jekyll & Hyde story, indeed, it can be interpreted as a modern, post-enlightenment version of werewolfism concerned, mainly, with the subjective, inner life and conflict between different aspects of psyche. The story can be read as the conflict between the primitive [...]

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