Saturday Ramble: Assisted Dying?
It’s the topic of the moment thanks to a new Bill going through Parliament. I believe, however, there’s a lot of it going on now … silently. The present block on this practice is that anyone doing the...
View ArticleMidweek Mysticism: Mystics have no fear of death
Continuing the discussion from the last piece on “assisted dying”, the assertion here is that genuine mystics lack all fear of death. While others quake and quail at the mere mention of the “D” word,...
View ArticleMidweek Mysticism: What is the Universe?
“Look up at the sky at night,” you might reply, “there is our bit of the Universe.” Fair enough, that’s reasonably logical and easy to understand, but does it answer the question? I don’t think it...
View ArticleMidweek Mysticism: The world as it is beneath the cloak of the physical
Ramana Maharshi at his ashram in India It is all too easy to take mysticism less than literally, to imagine that it’s “only psychological,” by implication sub-reality. Following after the Divine Light...
View ArticleMidweek Mysticism: Gordon Smith — the Glasgow Barber
I’m always on the lookout for genuine mystics among us. But before we come to Gordon Smith, let’s try to define a few terms. In this field there are many openings for confusion. Here’s my own...
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