AI safety engineer Mrinank Sharma has resigned from the multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence corporation Anthropic, declaring that “the world is falling apart and is in peril.” In leaving behind his career in AI development to become a poet and coach, Sharma is stepping away from the machinery of technological progress and into a life of creative human encounter. His departure feels…
There is light that is more luminous than billions of stars. This light resides deep within our consciousness, but remains largely unseen in this universe because the egos eyes cannot comprehend it. The light is manifest in this world through the giving and receiving of love and compassion. These radiate our true luminous nature into…
Dr Iya Whiteley is a Space Psychologist & Director for the Centre for Space Medicine, at University College London. She works with the psychological needs of astronauts who must to acclimatise to the strange environment of space for long stretches of time. She described to author, Dr Diana Pasluka, how most astronauts who for the…
In Mahayana Buddhism there are beautiful devotions to maternal, compassionate, deities. These deities are not actual gods but are representations of our true, divine, and compassionate nature, which exists beyond illusory ego identity. The ‘Tara’ is a maternal deity who represents a state of profound loving kindness. She is a maternal, compassionate being devoted to…
The transfiguration was a revealing by Jesus to his closest disciples of the luminous reality of the true universe of divine light and life from which we all came and to which we will all return. He is the self realised light of Christ, which is our true nature as boundless love/light but which we…
Intuition and intuitive knowing is as natural to humans as is breathing, through sadly, most of humanity keeps their precious third eye of non dual perception, tightly closed. We deny ourselves entry to the gateway of mysticism without even realising we are doing it. At the gateway divinity meets us and lifts up our consciousness…
Over the past year I have been researching the early Church phenomenon of Gnosticism. I have found it a fascinating and helpful study in coming to understand the diverse nature of early Christianity and the dynamics behind it. I’m currently engaged with a course of lectures by Professor David Brakkie of the University of Ohio,…
The more I have considered the work of some very talented scientists, in particular Jude Currivan PhD and Dr Donald Hoffman, the more I am coming to be persuaded that the nature of the universe is Holographic. This theory has credibility with scientists from institutions such as Cambridge, Princeton and Columbia. Currivan more cautiously uses…
I am reading a book called Setting God Free by Fr Sean O’Laoire, an Irish Catholic priest who is spiritual director to a community of lay people in California called Companions on the Journey. He is a beautiful soul; a radical, imaginative, intelligent and compassionate man who is deeply respected by many people across many…