Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Sunday, 14 March 2021

Physical immortality: Lent 2021, Day 26

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Feeling better than yesterday (in all honesty, nothing too bad), but still not 100%. A mild case of osłabienie (temperature oscillating betw...
Saturday, 13 March 2021

Faith and knowledge: Lent 2021, Day 25

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In a materialist, rationalist world, is there any place for faith - or does everything need to be scientifically proved? I know that the wor...
Friday, 12 March 2021

Reconciling science and spirituality: Lent 2021, Day 24

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Once again, my brother Marek points me the way in my Lenten questings. Today, he mentioned the work of the cognitive psychologist Donald D. ...
Thursday, 11 March 2021

Near-death experiences - do they tell us anything about the afterlife? Lent 2021, Day 23

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Prompted by an article emailed to me by my brother about the work of psychiatrist Bruce Greyson [ read it here ], I'd like to examine ne...
Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Muscle memory, mindfulness and metaphysics: Lent 2021, Day 22

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How much of our lives are lived on autopilot? We all know that feeling of 'motorway hypnosis' when we've covered mile after mile...
Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Where are you really from? Lent 2021: Day 21

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It was Brexit that divided society into 'citizens of somewhere' and 'citizens of nowhere'. The former have deeply establishe...
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Monday, 8 March 2021

Who are you - no really... who are you? Lent 2021, Day 20

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I see my body as a vehicle for my consciousness. It moves me around, it contains and sustains my brain, which is where my consciousness resi...
Sunday, 7 March 2021

Pleasure - put it off, or have it now? Lent 2021, day 19

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Lent is a time of self-denial. As with many other established religions, the notion of fasting plays an important role in Christianity. Comi...
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