Is Human Suffering Hard Wired?

‘Suffering’ is a very broad term. People use the term ‘suffering’ across a vast array of life experiences. Sometimes the way in which it is used justifies its definition and negative connotations whilst others bastardise and dilute the concepts of suffering itself through claiming to Read More …

Life: The – ‘Biased’ – Director’s Cut

Life – The Director’s Cut In National Depression Week: A Tribute to Friends and Anyone Suffering from Any Form of Mental Discontent I’m never really here, only briefly through moments of short-lived clarity. I see and appreciate the good things, but as if they are Read More …

Feeling Restless? Is Quantum Physics to Blame?

I heard a story recently. It went like this. When Columbus sailed in to America for the first time, the Native American Indians did not see his ship. Actually it wasn’t that they simply ‘didn’t’ see it, they could not see it. This is because, not only Read More …

Leaving the cave and facing the fire

So, an old philosopher named Plato, had a theory. Hardly surprising, since most philosophers do. This theory is one of ‘Divine Forms’. The best way to describe this is to use his famous cave analogy. He likened humans to prisoners, shackled in a cave against one Read More …