Lions have long held a special place in human minds. Around the world they’ve appeared in mythical and cultural lore reaching right back through the ages. From ancient Egypt and Turkey to Greece, Rome and India they are closely aligned…
It is well known that a gauge of a healthy ecosystem is judged by its predators. The top feeders are a litmus test for everything underneath. We now learn that the link between humans and nature is at the cutting…
Thanks to Peter Willis for articulating that which has been sending tentative tendrils into my consciousness. Like the pre-shock waves of a great tsunami (when animals respond by moving up to high ground), we are discerning the outlines of a…
Still on a biblical theme: the parallel between the long suffering people of Zimbabwe and the misery of Job in the Old Testament is apparent. In the Book of Job God has a wager with Satan that Job’s faith is…
I’ve just closed the covers on “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot” by Herbert Krosney. Much of it details the arduous and dangerous route, often through bungling and greedy hands, the ancient papyrus manuscript took since its discovery in Egypt…
Stark, extreme, magnificent, the Kalahari has a humbling effect on most people. You’d have to be a hard nut not to get it. A spiritual reconnection with the Earth is something that more and more people are realising is an…
Most people have heard of Sigmund Freud, who is valued as the father of modern psychology. Although Victorian in his outlook (he claimed that human behavior could be explained by repressed sexuality) his major contribution was to bring the idea…