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Blinkers on at Davos

The meeting of top financiers and politicians at Davos this week was extraordinary for its optimism about the economic outlook, the few voices of reality being ignored or quickly forgotten. The voices that did speak out, however, were those of experienced and knowledgeable men and women who see the present global situation, particularly to do […]
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Re-discovering the Cloak of Invisibility

Amidst all the news of financial difficulty, unedifying politics and distorted values it is heartening to learn that researchers at the University of Texas have managed to make three dimensional objects invisible from every angle - finding, perhaps, the true fabled cloak  of invisibility at last. Experiments before have depended upon using an overlay of […]
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The Chinese Year of the Dragon

Although the Chinese New Year began a couple of days ago, neatly coinciding with the new moon and with my knowledge, it was only yesterday that I began to reflect properly on what it might mean. The year of the dragon……how perfect for 2012, the date which symbolises change and a new era affecting us […]
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Fossil Fuels and Man's great Choice

Just below the Earth's skin lies masses of layers of fossil fuels, under the sea bed as well as on land, and new technology makes it cheap and easy to extract. It is perhaps the most important dilemma faced by humanity now - what to do with it. World leaders, energy companies and consumer organisations […]
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Dependency Culture versus Helping Yourself

The "dependency culture" is under fire and also under question as the UK Government's Bill on welfare reform and benefits caps faces increasingly strong opposition from those who claim large families may be made homeless. The arguments are becoming polarised between claims to do with inter-generational reliance on free state support for everything and the […]
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Enjoying the Past, but…….

The past came back enjoyably to my tiny village in mid-Wales last night when most of the 29 families which live here came together to watch the film of our Millennium Pageant. The record of how this close-knit community celebrated the advent of 2000 had never been shown before and so it was a special […]
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The Dark of the Moon, Today

It is the dark of the moon, the new moon for a new cycle preparing to become visible on Monday. It is the perfect time for my new re-designed website to become visible too. I hope you like it! It is as it is thanks to kind Harry, my excellent website designer and manager, and […]
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Endings and Beginnings

I have written much about endings and beginnings, death and rebirth, as the new era epitomised by 2012 strengthens in its manifestation. If you look at your life now, you may well see signs of the new and the departure of the old: often it can be in ways that seem insignificant at first glance […]
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The Heart of How to be Spiritual

Self-acceptance and self-expression are at the heart of being spiritual, and they are the key to the purpose of being human; the current PIP implant issues highlight this. The controversy over breast implants and, today, other "beauty enhancers" such as wrinkle fillers has demonstrated how many thousands of women have felt the need to change […]
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Moving Stars

I have a number of friends who live just to the west of me on the other side of the Cambrian Mountains in this special place of Wales. One of them, unexpectedly, called me last night to say she was witnessing a procession of moving stars. Together, she at her back door and me sitting […]
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