2021 – the Journey to Ithaka
As 2021 starts, we are all – whether we like it or not – nearly one year in on our journey to Ithaka, the island home of Odysseus. Odysseus, one of the conquering heroes [...]
Tales of the Blue Panda
Chapter Two (there’s a reason why it’s chapter two and not chapter one – trust me on this 🙂 ) It’s not a good idea to wake up in a mortuary. It’s likely that [...]
Kabbalah and Healing
Introduction and Chapter One below. We must try to understandthe meaning of the agein which we are called to bear witness.We must accept the factthis is an age in whichthe cloth is being unwoven.It [...]
The Vaccine as Messiah.
The Cosmic Christ. Image from Toledo Cathedral. At times of crisis, the natural inclination is to want to be saved and that’s exactly the purpose that we give to the idea of a Messiah. [...]
Sekhmet Awaits…
“The thing that got interrupted had no business continuing. This virus, this is a god; that is not overstating things, and the gods are in the house, and god is having god’s way as [...]
Soul Searching
Heart, soul, self, ego, spirit; these are words we bandy around in the spiritual world and everyone has a different definition for each one. It does help to understand the levels within us, so [...]
Judas Iscariot, the Severus Snape of the Gospels.
We’re heading towards Lent and Easter time so it’s as good a time as any for bringing up the matter of Judas. Loads of people nowadays ask whether he was as bad as he [...]
How to Hang on a Cross…
One of the magical things about studying Kabbalah is in learning how to read the Bible on four different levels. Literally, it’s a bit of a nightmare of slashing and burning and judgement but [...]
Patterns of the Universe.
Picture of Gary from Wikipedia. [This blog was written on the day that chef Gary Rhodes died. Sir Jonathan Miller died later on the same day at the age of 84 and Sir Clive [...]
The World, the Flesh and the Devil.
Medieval painting of the Virgin Mary thumping the devil. The Prophets in the Bible are generally ignored nowadays. It’s probably because they are concerned with social, institutional, national, or corporate evil and our participation in it. [...]