Oppenheimer and Hiroshima Day August 6th, aka yesterday, was Hiroshima Day, commemorating the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan in 1945. I joined my first anti-nuclear protest march with my family when I was five years old. In the 1960’s, even in distant New Zealand, nuclear war was on our minds. Here in…

This title was not my idea, honestly. It was inspired by an advertisement I saw on Meta. I hold any real Guru in the greatest respect and I’m forever explaining to over confident young mortals the vital role that a wise mentor might play in their lives. …

Oh, look, it’s apocalypse time again. I’m so excited! Lots of our favorite Big Tech Gods, from Sam Altman to Bill Gates, are warning us of impending doom, thanks to, you guessed it, AI! Do bear in mind, this pessimistic view of the impact of AI is far from unanimous…

I love quoting wise sayings — it takes the hard work out of sounding intelligent. But there’s one wise saying from the Sufi tradition that, at first, had me perplexed: “Trust in God but Tie Your Camel.” I get the first part. I believe in God, sort of, depending whether…

It has been said that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Well, what happened to me when I was living in London a few years ago was stranger than either. Well, we’re back! What an adventure. Some months ago my brave research lion, Aslan and I set off on a…

Thanks, Louis, for this superb article. You're not just a good singer! 😊❤️🎶 Of course we particularly love writers who happen to agree with us, and you put many of my own thoughts on this subject into words. I think about AI, Intuition and Creativity a lot as I teach Meditation and Creative Thinking for companies in Silicon Valley. I'm also a life-long musician and creative writer so this is close to my heart.

Last May I was relaxing for a few days at our spiritual retreat center in Mexico. The climate was warm and idyllic and the surrounds were uninterruptedly pleasant, featuring decorative stone walls, exotic plants and just the right quantity of friendly humans. Our delightful American ex-patriot neighbor, Dorinda, comes every…

I expect that you’ve been lying awake and night wondering, what is Monkotopia? It’s really quite simple. You’ve heard of utopia — a perfect world where everything seems designed to please You. Hence ‘You’ topia. It makes ‘You’ happy to live in this kind of world. Dystopia is the opposite…

When I was eleven years old I read a book called African Adventure by Willard Price. I thought this book was wonderful, particularly the part where the villain killed an enemy by putting chopped leopard’s whiskers in his soup. According to Willard Price, leopard’s whiskers are indigestible as the sharp…