Month: July 2018

Tantric Buddhism and Inter-being

[dropcap]My[/dropcap] dharma friend, Catherine Paul, recently visited Kakadu in the Northern Territory.  Visiting this protected wilderness area, she felt the full benefit of her years as a member of the full-time practising sangha at the Lerab Ling retreat centre in the south of France.  She posted this on Facebook : According to Tantric Buddhism, everywhere [...]

There is a new appetite for serious reflection

Writing in the Observer this weekend, Alex Preston draws our attention to the publishing phenomena of a growing interest in serious books.  As he says, the story of Sapiens is about a book becoming part of a national conversation. “Readers like to read the same book, particularly if it’s a good and interesting one,” Daunt says, “because [...]

In Search of the Wild Archetype

Back in 1992 Clarissa Pinkola Estés published 'Women Who Run With the Wolves', a book that would transfix American culture, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Her book is a call to recover the wild within us in the face of the deadening impact on our inner psyches of the economism [...]

Encountering the Wild in the Trobriand Islands

It never occurred to me to go to Papua New Guinea. I wanted to go to Paris. I was in love with the world of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. However during a demonstration in Sydney in support of the Gurindji people who had claimed the right to live on their own land, [...]