The concept of freedom is very largely misunderstood. All too often it’s forced into its opposite, which is a form of imprisonment. We understand freedom to be the absence of constraint, the lack of an external will imposing itself on you. Hence national freedom, hence the freedom of expression. Why is it these things tend [...]
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Talking to the dead is always of great value – mainly because they’re not. They are members of another life, they’ve been born into it, and they live there as truly as we live here. So what is the question at stake? It’s whether or not life is worthy and what is the relationship of [...]
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The perennial question about life after death is why the dead don’t try to communicate with us. A great deal of sadness attaches itself to this question. It is about closed doors, a loss of opportunity. But are we really listening? Do we hear the single voice rising above the crowd? Do we allow the [...]
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