Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
I’ve launched a new blog called The Metaphysician. . I’ve billed it as explorations of our humanness, inspired by this quotation from Shoghi Effendi:
What the Bah?’?s do believ is that we have three aspects to our humannes, so to speak, a body, a mind and in immortal identity – soul or spirit. We believ the [...]
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I’ve put up a very simple home page, from which you can reach both my blogs. I will add to it when I have time, but it will take time…
I’ve called it A Glimpsed Reality. Why not Barney’s World or something equally naff? Well, I know that I only catch glimpses of my reality out [...]
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It seems that regular meditation will not only give you more energy and concentration, but it will give you a bigger brain too. All of the above I need desperately.
A New Scientist article from last November (why I have I only just got to this – ah, I know, I need the bigger brain [...]
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Have you ever wondered what a mullocratic chiliast is? No, nor had I until I read an op-ed piece from yesterday by William F Buckley Jr about Iran’s nuclear games. Buckley uses the term as (presumably) a term of abuse about Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
‘Mullocratic’ I am sure you can get. But you might want [...]
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I have put a pdf of the NewStatesman’s comparisons of different religions here. I’d be interested to know what you think about it.
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This special issue of NewStatesman magazine is about religion in the modern world. It is well worth reading, if only to see what a range of people think and believe about religion and its place in life.
The special issue includes a comparison of the origins, beliefs and practices of the world’s major belief systems – [...]
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