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Coherence Essay 10 on Medium.com

9/22/2020

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The Very Way We Use Our Consciousness Causes Our Problems

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What is starting to happen is the emergence of a limited sense of self due to the malfunctioning of consciousness.   The experience of the whole identity has been replaced with a fragmented sense of identity, because consciousness has become polarized in the manifest world. And this in turn is reflected back to us from the outer world. In other words, if we feel fragmented, we will see and experience and create a fragmented world around us.   
    The genius of the Buddhist understanding of this gives us a language to describe its subtleties...
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New Coherence Essay No. 11 on Medium.com:

9/8/2020

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The Fall of Consciousness

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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...  

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Interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump

8/12/2020

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The Owl Summoned by Thought-- Essay 8 on Medium

7/1/2020

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PassionHarvest Podcast Interview...

6/29/2020

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So enjoyed my conversation with Luisa of PassionHarvest Podcasts...
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Just published, my new non-fiction book, 'Coherent Self, Coherent World: a new synthesis of Myth, Metaphysics & Bohm's Implicate Order' from 'O'Books

10/2/2019

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Price UK £10.99     Price USA $16.95    Now available from all online retail outlets,
e-book/kindle version also available
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'Seamless' Chapter 7 of my new book, 'Coherent Self, Coherent World' featured in 'Tears in the Fence' magazine

8/3/2019

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Link to 'Tears in the Fence'
This chapter looks deeply at what beauty and art are and how they are created.
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New poem 'Xi: The New God, the Dead Man' published in Amethyst Review

6/12/2019

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Poem 'All Ways' published in Amethyst Review

5/31/2019

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New Poem 'Middle England' published in Amethyst Magazine

5/31/2019

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