The meaning goes to infinite depths. As Emerson wrote and quantum physicists discovered, ‘that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go’ expresses throughout the undimensional and the dimensional world alike. The forces of the creator are found within ourselves, and are alive everywhere within the natural world…

The ‘technology’ of our consciousness has the extraordinary ability to grow meaning. And it can do this because of the relationship between inner and outer ‘worlds’ or between the implicate and the explicate. The generative nature of consciousness is what makes it possible for us as human beings to see…

Although scant archaeological evidence of Soloman’s Temple has been found, its probable design can be formulated from accounts in 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles. Its layout was based on the portable, tent-like tabernacle carried through the desert by the children of Israel en route to settling in the promised land…

Humankind is made up of men and women. Or at any rate of male and female, because teenagers and children are also a part of the mix. …

If we learn to stay true to ourselves, to feel when new insight lines up inside, or in Emerson’s words, ‘to detect and watch that gleam of light’ when it flashes across our minds, we are less likely to become controlled by others. We get a ‘feel’ for when something…

Society has set up many systems to try to regulate or control the behaviour of human beings. The most successful are those which know how to persuade people on the basis of their already-existing beliefs. But even when the would-be persuaders’ policies and intentions are mostly worthy ones, some one…

You stare through stale eyes at the furious waves of nature your past hopes now fixed belief hang like a pall over the embroidered garden fading its unfolding colour to dry routine. Your heart is kind, and it is not age that dulls your sight but the horrible repeat of…

The skewed identity and its over-involvement in the manifest world opens up the meaning of one of the most seminal texts in the western religious tradition, namely the account of the fall of man found in the opening chapters of Genesis. One way or another the Genesis story, with its…

Becoming switched around, trapped in the crystal cave, we lose not only the sense of the living world around us, but the expanded sense of ourselves.Our identity is diminished. We become vulnerable to those fragmented self-images, prone to corrosive beliefs. In Hans Christian Anderson’s story of ‘The Snow Queen’, the…