Poetry and Mind: detaching the finger from the moon The following is a paper I gave at Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF held at Birkbeck, University of London, in April 2019. The call for a multilevel in...
Mind Made World: Transcending past and future through experience of bardoThe following is a paper I gave at Life in the Glasshouse: Splintered Memories, held at Birkbeck, University of London, in March 2019. Prescient Dreams To be...
The unreality of reality: looking for a metaphysical basis for fantastical SF in the Buddhist canon.The following is a paper I gave at the Sublime Cognition: Science Fiction and Metaphysics conference at Birkbeck, University of London, in September 2018. Su...
Places that harboured me: Karma Dechen Choling, New InnBetween 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my teachers. By a strange ...
FAB adThis FAB advert appeared on one of the billboards on my street. The faces are startling and dreadful - transfixed by the lollies they hold. And when I first ...
Places that harboured me: Tashi DingBetween 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my teachers. By a strange ...
Places that harboured me: Tso Pema Lotus LakeBetween 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my teachers. By a strange ...
Wet radishes, free things still happen“At some point today, standing or sitting, cover or have your ears covered with your or their fingers. Set timer for 3 minutes. Press quite hard. CLOSE EYES....
Places that harboured me: Asura Cave GompaBetween 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my teachers. By a strange ...
Places that harboured me: The Hermitage of the Awakened HeartBetween 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my teachers. By a strange ...
Wilderness and MindONE First we see the desert. The fast moving shadow of cloud blackens the frame. Further slow pans across the landscape; the ground is barren, covered in roc...
Pilgrim AgeThis is a slightly edited version of a text originally written for Pilgrim Age Showcase and Publication HIAS 2014. Suffering is the beginning of the journey;...