[Excerpt from EASE, getting real with work] To have the job of our wildest dreams, to do the work we are to do, to live from the freedom we really are, we have to be willing to get a bit clearer about reality. Ready? Ok, in the previous chapter we started with what we...

For ten long years the Greeks had been attempting to seize the City of Troy and win the war. In exasperation, Odysseus comes up with one last desperate measure. He instructs his soldiers to build a magnificent wooden horse and to position it outside the city gates....

[Excerpt from 'HOME, the return to what you already are'] In the American version of The Office, two characters Ryan and Kelly have an office romance and after a while it ends. Ryan, reflecting on their relationship post break-up, says of Kelly ‘I’d rather she be...

[Excerpt from EASE, getting real with work] My colleague was doing an MBA and one of his text books had a chapter on listening. He sent me the summary box from the chapter of the 20 things to do in order to become a better listener. Things like: ‘make sure to maintain...

[Excerpt from SANE, getting real with reality] There are beliefs that look right because they seem to be endorsed or everyone seems to concur with them. But apparent ‘rightness’ means nothing more than temporary agreement. All beliefs will eventually dissolve in the...

You might be thinking, ‘I don’t get this. I don’t understand this. Maybe I’m not the sort of person who will ever get this sort of thing.’ If so I’m going to suggest something that might not have been considered before in relation to the ‘I don’t get this’. Because...

I was at a non-duality retreat and asked a question about the brain. ‘There is no brain’ came the immediate reply. And, ultimately, we can’t argue with that. This is true. There is no objective reality of the brain. Just as there is no objective reality of anything....

The theme of the 2022 Mental Health Awareness campaign in the UK was loneliness. A very valid theme of course. Study after study has shown that close personal relationships and face to face interactions have more influence over a person’s well-being and longevity than...

What makes this so remarkable and astonishing, is that when we think of what we are, we completely disregard ‘life’, don’t we? We think that we are a doer, a decider. We think we are the content of beliefs and experience. We think that we are everything we identity...

‘I am this body’. It looks so true doesn’t it? It looks like the body is me and I am the body. There is no possibility otherwise. It looks like there is an objective ‘me’ in this objective body, controlling it, that the ‘me’ is doing the reading now, that the ‘me’ is...