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Meditation: A User’s Guide – Part 3

The third aspect of C-Viz, and in many ways the most important aspect, is feeling. Feeling can be broken down into three separate but related aspects: emotional feeling, bodily feeling and energy-body feeling. The energy-body feeling (which is directly related to the Hindu Chakra system or the Chinese Taoist system of energy centres (Dantien)) is more esoteric and for higher level meditation practitioners, so for the sake of simplicity we will ignore it here.… Read the rest

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A Beginners Guide to Meditation Part 2

Other forms of meditation apart from Anapanasiti are available, such as Creative Visualisations; which is my preferred method of meditation. Before we get into Creative Visualisations and how the name is somewhat misleading, it’s necessary to talk a little about the philosophy of meditation.… Read the rest

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Meditation: A User’s Guide – Part 1 of 3

Make no mistake about it, meditation can profoundly change your life for the better; I say this not because it is a pithy thing to say, but because it has changed my life for the better. Meditation has helped calm my monkey-mind; it has facilitated a profound self-healing and, perhaps most importantly in my case, it has facilitated a reframing of my relationship with anger.… Read the rest

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Why you should “Vote Lord” on July 4th in York Central

The primary reason that I am the best candidate for York Central MP is that I am talking about the issues which truly matter, and which the other candidates are not discussing. Although the Greens, and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems, do mention the arms trade and economic justice they do so as add-ons, rather than as central policies; their thinking is firmly rooted in traditional linear political thinking.… Read the rest

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Letter from the future

Welcome to 2030: I own my own home, enjoy my privacy, the banksters are in jail and life is only getting better

Welcome to my home, we have just started a new decade. I own this property, my books, my clothes and a small number of personal possessions but the appliances in my home and the car that I use are communally owned as part of the circular economy.… Read the rest

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War is a racket and all wars are bankers’ wars.

Southeast Asia, since the end of WWII, provides us with numerous examples of the negative externalities of the arms trade and warfare. The former Laotian capital of Luang Prabang is a wonderful city of great beauty and charm, but much of the surrounding countryside is scattered with unexploded ordnance (UXO).… Read the rest

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CBDCs, authoritarianism and the nature of money

In 2021 British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced plans to create a UK Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs), which would be a new form of ‘money’, that would allow for aspects of the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System to be implemented in the UK.… Read the rest