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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...

Mind Made World: Transcending past and future through experience of bardo

The following is a paper I gave at Life in the Glasshouse: Splintered Memories, held at Birkbeck, University of London, in March 2019. Pr...

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, i...

Places that harboured me: Karma Dechen Choling, New Inn

Between 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my tea...

FAB ad

This FAB advert appeared on one of the billboards on my street. The faces are startling and dreadful - transfixed by the lollies they hol...

Places that harboured me: Tashi Ding

Between 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my tea...

Places that harboured me: Tso Pema Lotus Lake

Between 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my tea...

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 qui...

Places that harboured me: Asura Cave Gompa

Between 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my tea...

Places that harboured me: The Hermitage of the Awakened Heart

Between 2007 and 2013 I spent two and a half years in solitary retreats practising the meditation instructions I had received from my tea...

Wilderness and Mind

ONE First we see the desert. The fast moving shadow of cloud blackens the frame. Further slow pans across the landscape; the ground is ba...

Pilgrim Age

This is a slightly edited version of a text originally written for Pilgrim Age Showcase and Publication HIAS 2014. Suffering is the begin...

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