Lent 2026: day 17 – Do we need to invoke spiritual explanations to fully describe reality?

Scene: the present. A secret military intelligence facility, somewhere in the continental USA. In the centre of a room with blank walls, a desk and sitting behind it, a man; he is finely balanced between total relaxation and maximum concentration. A voice from a speaker tells him he may begin. On the desk, a blank piece of paper. He starts to doodle. Lines. A mountain ridge. A road ending in a circular flat space – like, a car park – some 70, 80 meters across... ringed on three sides by rock; in the north-west of this, a tunnel entrance. Down into the tunnel, men moving equipment, long tubes – missiles.

[Image by Google Gemini, prompted by the above paragraph]

"I got it!" The man dictates an alphanumeric sequence. Coordinates. "Four-Zero-Romeo-Uniform-November-Zero-Six-Six-Three-Seven-Niner-One-Two-Two-Five."

The latest satellite imagery for the area is brought up on big screens in the adjacent room, along with geological maps. The rock formations look right. Older satellite photos confirm that the road was built sometime in the last two years. Bingo. Another question from the control booth.

"December Twelfth, 2027. How does the place look now?"

"Ruins, debris, no signs of a clear-up. Dust. Blast damage. Blackened tubes, twisted pipes. No one around. No signs of recent human activity. No footprints. Charred posters on the wall – the Ayatollah."

The Stargate Project into military applications of remote viewing was initiated by the U.S. Army in 1977, and officially terminated in 1995. However, many believe that the project wasn't really cancelled; it just 'went dark', having been moved from the military into private defence contractors, away from Congressional oversight. Remote viewers might well be putting their psychic skills into practice right now, scouring Iran for hidden ballistic missile launchers and factories making rocket components.

An intriguing point of view is espoused by Dr Edwin C. May, who headed the Stargate Project from 1991 to 1995. Dr May continues to believes in the existence of psi phenomena, pointing to proven successes of Stargate Project in uncovering Soviet secrets. And yet, he holds that the explanation for these mysterious powers lies entirely in rational – though as yet undiscovered – material causes. Dr May dismisses supernatural or metaphysical explanations. In interviews, he claims to be a rational atheist with an interest in phenomena at the edges of scientific knowledge. For Dr May, anomalous phenomena such as remote viewing and precognition are absolutely, undeniably real – and yet there's no need to seek answers in the metaphysical realm. No need for divine intervention.

So. Another of my recurring Lenten questions is – how far can the physicalist position be pushed before it becomes idealism? At what point does a spiritual explanation need to be invoked? Here we run into the God of the Gaps argument, the 'gap' in this case being psi phenomena. Most rational physicalists would dismiss serious studies into the paranormal as pseudoscience. Yet there are those who, having studied psi effects such as precognition and remote viewing, conclude without a shadow of a doubt that while weak and rare, such phenomena are real – beyond chance, more than random. The evidence, they say, is statistically significant, the only thing missing is a solid scientific theory to underpin the observations.

But while science is our preferred language to describe reality, some philosophers are prepared to accept that psi phenomena are the result of people tapping into a cosmic consciousness.

And if we do accept a Big-C Cosmic Consciousness, a Universal mind, an Eternal Purpose – can that be ultimately explained in physical terms? Can God be boiled down to a formula that can fit onto a T-shirt? Will we ever be able to describe qualia of conscious experience through a mathematical formula? Will we ever be able to define the human spirit in scientific terms? My intuition suggests to me "probably not".

Lent 2025: day 17
Science, spirituality and religion (Pt I)

Lent 2024: day 17
Do we have Free Will (Pt I)

Lent 2023, day 17
Intuition, Precognition, Divination

Lent 2022: day 17
Defining God

Lent 2021: day 17
Karma – more than just social control?

Lent 2020: day 17
Religion and Feeling Good

Lent 2026: day 16 – synchronicity and coincidence

These two related concepts should be seen in the context of the unfolding – the personal unfolding – of your Cosmos as you see it, as it befalls you. Coincidence and synchronicity are also very much connected to mindfulness. 

'Coincidence' comes from the Latin coincidere, meaning 'to fall together'. 'Synchronicity', in the Jungian sense, refers to coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related – supposedly the result of "universal forces.

We notice coincidences around us, some of us noticing more coincidences than others. But making sense of them? We should see coincidences as warnings, as harbingers, signals to be heeded. 

I remember, decades ago, walking past West Ealing station and seeing a woman wearing a black eye-patch. Later that day, I saw another woman on the Central Line also wearing a black eye-patch. One such sighting is unusual. But seeing two in a day – is it a sign? Let's imagine that I didn't consciously note this to myself at the time. And then two days later, I scratch my eye deeply on a low-hanging branch of a rosebush and end up in hospital. As I wait to be seen, I now remember those two women with eye-patches. I had ignored the warning...

Or is this seeing too much into it? 

Being aware of the possibility of things going wrong is an important part of guarding against ill-fate, forestalling or precluding misfortunes of all kinds. As you walk your daily life along the edge of chaos. Seeing two magpies does not mean sorrow – it means it's time to reflect on the possibility of things going wrong and leading to a sorrowful outcome. But just being aware of that is enough to lift that cloud. But if you  understand this, I believe that you can use synchronicities or observed coincidences to ward off bad luck – random events that have a negative outcome on your life., 

To do so, you need to do two things:

1) Accept that coincidences do can contain meaning. This means stepping above the materialist reductionist mindset that would dismiss synchronicities as meaningless. 

2) Act consciously upon observed coincidences. If you consciously observe two people on crutches within a short space of time, it doesn't mean you will have an accident that results in you walking on crutches; rather it is a suggestion offered to you to be aware of the possibility of an accident occurring to you. And a prompt to switch on heightened levels of mindfulness.

There is a balance, between obsessively over-reacting to every possible manifestation of coincidence - and just outright ignoring this phenomenon. Seeking coincidences where there are none is as dangerous as dismissing coincidences that you do become conscious of. So don't go out of your way to look for coincidences; but when you do notice them – don't ignore them!"

The effect is weak but noticeable over the long term. But it will grow in strength as we evolve spiritually. Consciously observed coincidences can be a powerful set of signals to point daily life in the right direction.

"Everything is connected in Time" by ChatGPT

Just as there is the mycelial network of fungus under a forest floor connecting colonies of mushrooms, there is a similar unseen network of coincidence that holds events together.

Lent 2025: day 16
Intuition, the secret power of your consciousness

Lent 2024: day 16
Do we tend to get more spiritual as we get older?

Lent 2023: day 16
Intuition – is it magical?

Lent 2022: day 16
The difficulties of focusing on the spiritual

Lent 2021: day 16
This planet is my home, today and tomorrow

Lent 2020: day 16
My metaphysical journey, as I see it

Lent 2026: day 15 – the luck you will yourself

Controversial, but mine. If you overlook the chance of misfortune befalling you, it will befall you. But if you consider the possibility of it occurring, you can forestall it. I sincerely believe this. Some might think me naive, yet it's something I've observed since childhood. It's usually the unexpected that creeps up on you. From big things like heart attacks to small things like delayed trains.

In an uncertain world, outcomes are random. A solar flare could knock out all electrical power on earth. A supervolcano could plunge us into a seven-year-long winter. An asteroid strike could lead to a mass-extinction event. A plague could sweep the earth. Nuclear holocaust could be unleashed. To date, we have sidestepped these. But for how long? As long as it aligns with the Purpose for us to do so...

Nudging outcomes, but only if they align. Wishful thinking? Yes? Whyever not? 

The Purpose of the universe is not for you to live a life of luxury and high status. But then neither is it for you to suffer in discomfort. Align your wishes with this, and be mindful of what can go wrong along the way. 

Mindfulness and prayer merge. "May I not slip up on the ice" becomes not just a petition to the Lord but an instruction to self; "be careful out there". Sceptics may argue that effect = not slipping over on the ice is caused by attention's triumph over inattention. But a metaphysical 'guardian angel' effect may also be involved.

If we look at luck through the prism of quantum mechanics, the observer effect and the possibility of willing outcomes at the subatomic level – could we not train ourselves to do this at the macro level? To alter classical-mechanical outcomes with our will? Highly speculative, a matter of belief and personal observation. But if it works out in 51% or more of cases in your life over many decades, well, hey – it works for me. Call it pseudoscience, I have no idea how it works, but it is practical. It's just that you have to cover so many bases. "May the shit not hit the fan." But which shit, and which fan?

When I step out and lock the front door, I make that conscious prayer that I may return safely home, my  tasks achieved, the day fulfilled in its promise. And on returning home, the cats all well, I give thanks. 

Take care. Look after yourself. With mindfulness. Look after our planet, too.

Postscript: I prompted ChatGPT and Google Gemini to produce an illustration for the theme "willing yourself good luck". Both images were predictably full of horseshoes, four-leafed clovers and dice. Not the point.

Lent 2025: day 15
The Ego's journey through life

Lent 2024: Day 15
Aligning Prayer with Cosmic Purpose

Lent 2023, Day 15
Intuition and instinct

Lent 2022: Day 15

Religious belief, practice, inquiry and experience

Lent 2021: Day 15
The Afterlife – Faith and Doubt

Lent 2020: Day 15
Rites and Ritual

Lent 2026: day 14 – intuition vs. intellect

The human brain – what a powerful tool! Deduction, calculation, logic, inference, conclusion; putting two and two together – the cognitive process, churning away inside your skull. Until recently unassisted by computer power, human brains have been able to manage fire, invent the wheel, erect magnificent cathedrals, devise the steam engine, and indeed invent the computer. Electrical signals jumping across the synapses of the brain's neural networks, all the while reasoning, processing data and information, sifting through the possibilities of probable outcomes – and all the while managing behaviour and self-image.

Intuition is different to thought or cognition. It has metaphysical qualities. Thought is a process; intuitions come instantaneously. Intuition is a sense of knowing something without the act of reasoning. Intuition involves accessing information or insights not immediately apparent deducible from the process of logical thought. Intellect is wedded to the physical number-crunching power of a given human brain. Intuition, I would argue, is closer to the pure experience of consciousness, unmediated by the thought process. Intuitions are often reported as 'gut feelings' – usually ones that turn out correct.

I see intuition as the result of tapping into the Flow, the cosmic purpose; it offers insights, answers and new creativity. Intuitions tend to be positive, optimistic and uplifting; aligned.

Our current scientific paradigm is based on the notion that everything in the Cosmos is based on matter. Our brain is matter; thoughts are the result of electricity moving through that matter. Consciousness, however, splits the scientific consensus (the Hard problem). The majority view is that consciousness is nothing more than the experience of brain activity, an epiphenomenon resulting from evolution. Experiencing the taste of coffee or the sight of bright sunlight on virgin snow requires no cognitive effort. Others state that consciousness is an illusion and doesn't really exist (hence, there's no hard problem). Idealists, however, see consciousness as being fundamental, and this view is closest to mine. From there, the leap to metaphysics.

As well as differentiating intuition from intellect, it is important not to mistake intuition for instinct. The latter is set of behaviours, innate and learned, that an organism carries out unconsciously in response to external conditions. Recoiling away from an object headed for your face. Instinct, not intuition. Instinct I witnessed in my cat, Wenusia, who knew how to give birth and mother five healthy kittens, without access to lectures, advice from her mother or guidebooks.

And now it's time to dive into the speculative: is intuition proof of non-local consciousness? It implies a interconnectedness of minds and potentially access to information that's not limited by space and time. And this implies magic; intending a physical effect without a physical cause. Precognition – 'seeing' into the future, or remote viewing – 'seeing' distant places.

Intuition can be given a theological spin; the Holy Spirit, who inspires believers, allowing for them to interpret all the sacred scripture, and indeed entering the Conclave that chooses the next Pope.

Now, is intuition something that we can tap into if we are open to it? Are some people gifted with greater intuitive powers than others? Or can we develop our intuition through practice and exercise?

I return to my analogy about laptops. It's a useful analogy. One laptop is fully-featured, has huge processing power and a vast hard drive, but it stands alone. The other has a weaker processor and little read-only memory, but unlike the first, it is connected to the internet via wi-fi. Which laptop is more useful?

And further questions... As humanity makes the leap to being a technological species, are our intuitive powers losing out to our highly trained cognitive skills? Has our intuition atrophied during our evolution from hunter-gatherers?

Imagine two musicians. Both have trained intensively, putting in thousands of hours of practice. Both have mastered their instruments. Both can be relied on to perform without errors, without hitting bum notes. But one is a competent, seasoned session musician. The other has the gift of being able to put successions of notes into a novel order, creating new musical quality. A Mozart, a Gershwin, a Bowie. These guys had something above and beyond technical excellence; they had a metaphysical touch; they could tap into the Flow.

Imagine two theoretical scientists. One strains away at the mathematical underpinnings of the subatomic or the galactic scale, working away at formulae, double-checking them and cross-checking them with observational data. The other has an innate grasp of how things work and can come up with dazzling new insights that lead to new theories. 

In every field of human endeavour, there's the plodding donkey, patiently getting on with it, but lacking that spark of creativity, and there's the genius. I would posit that many of humanity's greatest minds had their 'eureka!' moments; a sudden flash of inspiration rather than a final deduction. This is not to say that they haven't put in the donkey work, but that it was an inspired intuition got them to that moment.

Sometimes it is a moment – a flash, and you're there. But creative genius is about how long you can remain 'in the Flow', how much you can download from Big 'C' Consciousness before – for whatever reason – that direct contact is interrupted. You return to your former status as pedestrian writer, musician or artist.

The ability to tap into the Flow and stay there long enough to complete something new, imaginative, creative – and to return to that state time and time again – is what differentiates genius from the merely competent.

But intuition isn't just about the inspiration that stands behind creativity. It is also about tapping into non-local consciousness for the sake of avoiding mishaps or disasters. Intuition can be seen as that 'guardian angel' that out of the blue sends you a go/no-go signal. I shall post tomorrow about intuition and luck.

Lent 2025: day 14
Ego, consciousness and time

Lent 2024: day 14
Emergence and Complexity vs. Entropy and Chaos: Good vs. Evil?

Lent 2023, day 14
The appeal of mystic traditions

Lent 2022: day 14
Between Serendipity and Proactiveness

Lent 2021: day 14
Prayer

Lent 2020: day 14
Choose the music for your religion

Lent 2026: day 13 – mindfulness and meditation

Are meditation and mindfulness the same? Both are spiritual practices engaged in by many secular people – indeed, by atheists even. And yet both verge on the metaphysical in terms of how they engage consciousness

Though often associated with each other, they are different. In today's post, I present how I see the difference between meditating and being mindful.

Let's start with definitions: mindfulness is easy; it means the state of being full of mind. Being alert, heedful, attentive; being aware of consequences; being in the flow, latching on to intuition, having presence of mind. Paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. Mindfulness is being aware of being aware ('metacognition'); it is the cognitive skill of sustaining that metacognitive awareness towards the contents of one's own mind and bodily sensations in the present moment. This involves monitoring and regulating one's attention. Mindful awareness can be focused on internal phenomena such as thoughts and emotions, as well as external phenomena, such as speech or movement. 

Meditation requires more explanation, so before the definitions, the etymology. The word comes from the Latin meditatus (to meditate, to think over, consider), from the Proto-Indo-European med- (to measure, limit, consider, advise). Meditation is defined as "A devotional exercise of contemplation, or achieving an altered state of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind, through relaxed or focused mental activity of a non-substance-induced nature". 

The two are different, and which you are more likely to practice boils down, I think, a great deal to personality. Meditation requires more discipline; allocating time for it – at the expense of any other activity – is tough. People on the ADHD spectrum find it harder to meditate; staying focused is difficult. But mindfulness requires the occasional nudge to get back on track.

I have prompted Google Gemini and ChatGPT to come up with illustrations that highlight the difference between the two. First Gemini (to whom I'd say: "Don't pick the flowers! Let them live and bring joy to others!)

And then ChatGPT (to whom I'd say: "Don't waste money on takeaway coffee!").

Interesting how both AIs have gone for the same visual comparisons.

I see mindfulness as being consciousness at the interface with matter. Will I catch that train? Yes, if I don't lose track of the time. Will I catch flu when in town tomorrow? No, not if I'm aware of people around me coughing and sneezing and keep a healthy distance from them. Will I have a car crash? No, not if I drive with total situational awareness for the entire duration of my drive. 

Mindfulness should be taught to children before they hit adolescence, when normal thinking gets switched off by hormonal rush. My mother taught me the saying quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem as a child; it was only in middle age that I really got the importance of this piece of wisdom. Essentially, it says, whatever you do, do it mindfully. 

Mindfulness – whether it's when stepping off a bus or knowing that you have switched off the iron before leaving home – should be ever-present at our interface between the material world and consciousness. In a way, the point of the cross where the spiritual crosses the material.

Meditation – on the other hand, is purposefully cutting the inner world of consciousness and the mind off from the noisy, distracting material world. Meditation is about calming oneself into a trance and entering the Flow from within an altered state.

I try to be mindful of the need to be mindful (metamindfulness) as often as I can!

Lent 2025: day 13
You, your consciousness and Time

Lent 2024: day 13 
Aesthetics, metaphysics and ethics

Lent 2023, day 13
High Church and Low: Religious Styles and Personality

Lent 2022: day 13
Comfort and Luxury, Consciousness and Ego

Lent 2021: day 13
Comfort and Luxury – knowing when to stop

Lent 2020: Day 13
Holy buildings and the sense of the mystical

Lent 2026: day 12 – the Purpose

I want to return to the great 'why?' questions. Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? What's it's all for? What is the purpose? What is the direction – towards what is the Cosmos unfolding? The study of these questions is teleology, carrying with it the implication that there is a goal. 

These questions neither bother me nor nag at me – they just are, deep and ultimately imponderable.

These are questions of philosophy, rather than of science. Hard-headed physicalist-materialists tend to poo-poo philosophy as something squishy and intangible. Yet science – as a set of mathematical formulae defining reality – is unravelling at its seams, unable to progress theoretically despite all the vast benefits it has brought humanity in recent centuries. So scientists continue to postulate and theorise with the aid of formulae, while philosophers just continue to postulate and theorise.

For me, the Cosmos is more than just a random bunch of matter that happens to exist. It has a reason for its existence and a goal for its unfolding, it has and ultimate destiny. And as such, some agential force must have determined it thus. 

One of my great revelations of this past year is accepting that we humans are destined never to know. We can only inch forward in ever sharper approximations of our human understanding of the nature of reality. That understanding is by necessity vague, poorly defined – the H. sapiens brain being the limiting factor. Perhaps H. superior will get closer. ("Gotta make way for the Homo superior... Homo sapiens have outgrown their use" – Oh You Pretty Things, David Bowie, 1971.) 

We can reach that understanding better through intuition than by reasoning; that intuition comes to us 'from on high' – or, to use contemporary explanatory language, 'non-local consciousness' (which can be understood in religious terms as the Holy Spirit).

So – what do I feel is the purpose of the Universe? What is my own, personal teleology?

Two images, by ChatGPT (left) Google Gemini, prompted as follows: "Please produce a photorealistic image that encapsulates the notion of teleology". One shows the journey towards the light, the other the acorn's destiny to become an oak.

An eternally long journey with the Flow, in the Flow. Towards an ultimate goodness, the love supreme, pure Consciousness, unity. A full shift from the material to the spiritual realm. The triumph of syntropy over entropy, of creation over destruction, of love over barbarism, of light over darkness. A final binding together into One of myriad individual consciousnesses that have experienced myriad lifetimes, each representing an eternal sequence of steps up in spiritual evolution. Each life lived better than the last, each life intuiting more deeply, experiencing more richly, living in ever-greater awareness, moving ever closer to an Omega Point.

And then? At that Omega Point?

Enjoy the moment and start all over again? Or remain in that state for all time?

Our minds are just too puny to contemplate such thing. 

A cat or dog, watching us turn darkness into light by touching a switch, can no more understand the flow of electromagnetic forces along a copper wire than we can understand the Divine Purpose. But intuition is a powerful guide, as long as we are open to it, and let it in unfiltered by doubts – doubts shaped by the materialist-reductionist paradigm that surrounds us. 

Lent 2025: day 12
Eternally grateful

Lent 2024: day 12
Metaphysical memories of, and from, childhood

Lent 2023: day 12
Obstacles on the Path to Growth

Lent 2022: day 12
Understanding our Universe and our physical reality

Lent 2021: day 12
Chance and Luck: can we will an outcome?

Lent 2020: day 12
Find your own Holy Places

Lent 2026: day 11 – revel in joy!

Despite Easter being a moveable feast (it can fall anywhere between 22 March and 25 April) Lent usually starts in the cold of winter and ends in glorious spring. This year's Lent began amid an unusually long, cold and snowy winter; last Saturday still saw flurries of fresh snow; over the past week ,the temperature returned into positive figures... and today is glorious. One week from snow on the ground to being able to stroll outside without the need for a coat or even jacket.

This has profound implications for mood. The sun, which could and did shine brightly despite the intense recent frosts, now brings warmth as well as light. Much as I love days when the sun reflects off virgin snow cover, the feeling of warmth on the face for the first time since mid-autumn is wonderful.

This morning, for the first time in two months, I started the car and drove to down to Warka to do some big shopping. (After shopping locally with a rucksack for all that time, the ability to buy bulky or heavy items without worrying about how much I could physically carry home, was welcome.)

My early-morning drive to Warka, through the orchards of south Mazovia, was full of enchantment and joy. Qualia flashbacks came one after the other, some from this life. and one or two feeling like those familiar past-life experience. This is a regular phenomenon – the frequency of exomnesia events peak with the changing of the seasons.

In the garden, there are still patches of snow in shady parts, but I can see butterflies and bees for the first time this year, and hear birdsong, great tits and woodpeckers. The digital thermometer says it's 15.8°C outside in the early afternoon. Meteorological spring starts tomorrow; I feel it in the air. 

Joy. I feel joy.

Joy, as distinct from pleasure or fun. Joys are profound and spiritual; the others superficial and physical.

Should we seek a life filled with material goodies, or live for moments of joy?

For me, it's clearly the latter. Joy outweighs here-today-gone-tomorrow fragments of fun. Memories of joyous qualia will resurface again and again in your consciousness throughout your life. Childhood joys come back, rich and familiar. But what pleasures I can I still recall? 

The repeatability of moments of joy has been on my mind for several years; my way to this is through enhanced sensitivity to joy(s) whatever the source, appreciation – and gratitude.

I know what I need to do now – the sun sets a little before quarter past five this evening; a second walk to catch it is in order. The magic hour, the twilit afterglow. 

Lent 2025: day 11
The will to be well

Lent 2024: Day 11
Spirituality vs. the Scientific Method

Lent 2023: Day 11
Personalities and Disorders

Lent 2022: Day 11
Aliens, Angels and Daemons

Lent 2021: Day 11
The Ego, Consciousness and Spiritual Evolution

Lent 2020: Day 11
Dreams and the Afterlife

Lent 2026: day ten – the esoteric and the exoteric way

How does God speak to us? You may be a member of a religious congregation; God may speak to you through holy texts, or through the words of intermediaries – priests, pastors, rabbis etc. But then, you may be (as am I) spiritual but not religious, believing in a more direct relationship with the Divine, based on first-hand experience.

The difference in approaches to spirituality may be summed up as that between the exoteric and the esoteric. Google Gemini illustrates the two paths:

The exoteric approach gives you – and indeed everyone – all the answers on a plate. The nature of God, life after death, how to live one's life. There are no questions, only doctrines. The exoteric is suitable to be imparted to all, regardless of age or their levels of curiosity or need for nuance. Roman Catholicism is classically exoteric.The exoteric is handed down hierarchically, in a pre-digested form. "Take this all of you and believe it". No great need for questions.

In contrast, the esoteric way is based on internal experience. How you feel God, rather than being told how others have known God. The esoteric way requires constant engagement with the deepest questions, wrestling with doubt, dialogue.

I would distinguish the esoteric from the occult; the occult is that which is hidden. Truth is not hidden (which implies someone hid it); rather, it is there to be revealed, discovered, person by person. Like the exoteric, the occult requires intermediation. The adept has to be initiated into the secrets through a series of trials, ordeals or tests. Again, a hierarchical structure is called for (Grand Hierophants of the 33rd Degree etc). Having said that, the Roman Catholic church warns its faithful against secret sects and the occult, tainting esotericism with the same brush). 

Gnosticism as a way of looking at spirituality appeals somewhat to me, in particular the notion of gnosis – direct experience of knowledge (or spiritual knowledge gained through direct experience). However, Gnosticism's division of creation into the material and spiritual realms (the former being created by a flawed demiurge, the latter being the created by hidden and uncorrupted supreme being) is too dualist for my taste. Still, if not taken to literally and considered metaphysically, the Gnostic perspective on spirituality is worth looking into.

If you feel the slightest hint of God's presence in the Universe, don't ignore that voice; be open to it and seek. Be open to intuitions, to meaningful synchronicities, to the inner voice, to moments of awe and wonder – and take up the quest. Your own quest.

Lent 2025: day ten
The Ghost in the Machine: consciousness and inanimate objects

Lent 2024: Day ten
{{ We were born to recognise the answer }} – words from knowwhere

Lent 2023, Day ten
Spirituality and neurodiversity

Lent 2022: Day ten
Where was God in Auschwitz?

Lent 2021: Day ten
The Sins that cannot be Purged

Lent 2020: Day ten
Those who have created their own religions