The title of this piece is borrowed from John Michael Greer’s 2008 book The Long Descent, the central thesis of which is threefold. Firstly, the industrial civilisation we take for granted is unsustainable and is in decline. The evidence for this is all around us but many choose to downplay…

“All religions and all sciences connect themselves with one single science, always hidden from the common herd, and transmitted from age to age, from initiate to initiate, beneath the veil of fables and symbols. It preserves for a world yet to come the secrets of a world that has passed…

THE MACHINE STOPS If you haven’t yet heard about the so-called ‘Great Reset’, I can assure you that very soon, you will. Many of you, though, will already be familiar with the term even if you’re not fully aware of what it means. It most commonly refers to the plans of globalist bodies…

A Google search for the word ‘consciousness’ currently returns over 300 million results. Despite this wealth of information, a concise definition of consciousness remains elusive. It’s as slippery a concept as time, another dimension of our daily lives which appears simultaneously familiar and mysterious. We experience consciousness in the awareness…

Well, you wanted a different world, and now you’ve got it. No matter how the misery and mayhem being wreaked by the Coronavirus crisis plays out, it’s difficult to imagine a comprehensive return to ‘business as usual’. Indeed, in one or more important respects, the lives we once knew may…

A near-death experience — or NDE — is a profound psychological event that may occur to a person close to death or in extreme physical or emotional crisis. An NDE may begin with an out-of-body experience, possibly hovering nearby and watching events around the body. An NDE typically includes a…

As far as we can fathom, humans have been forever fascinated by their dreams. Amazed by them too, and confused, amused, haunted, disturbed, even driven insane by them. Their function and meaning, however, continue to elude us. Indeed, the very question of whether our dreams might possess either of these…

“In Ireland this world and the world we go to after death are not far apart.” W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight Ideas about lost civilizations and ancient wisdom, and the core concept of the Perennial philosophy, are constant threads running throughout humanity’s history. From Atlantis to the Anunnaki, and from…

Author and biologist Rupert Sheldrake has courted considerable controversy during his long career. Perhaps best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance (that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits subject to change), his tussles with the scientific establishment say a great deal about how dogmatic mainstream science…