27 September 2007
How not to advance understanding of OBEs
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This is an article which appeared in the Financial Times magazine. It reminds me of how deplorable it is that we continue to be prevented ...
23 September 2007
Have some apparatus
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Copy of a letter to a philosopher When I met you I referred to my constant altercations with Rosalind Heywood about the expensiveness of app...
16 September 2007
Being "spiritual"
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Copy of a letter to a philosopher You said that some Rosicrucian SS men gave some help to a Buddhist who was also a communist, because he, l...
12 September 2007
Aphorism of the month
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The object of modern science is to make all aspects of reality equally boring, so that no one will be tempted to think about them. (from The...
10 September 2007
Tall poppy syndrome
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I read an article recently (see below) which purported to demonstrate that there is nowadays in this country a hatred of success. This was d...
03 September 2007
Thinking for oneself
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This is a letter I wrote in 1986 about 'individualism'. Since then, the particular version of individualism discussed here has becom...
28 August 2007
Tribal versus territorial morality
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Extract from my book Letters from Exile : Essentially, there are two conflicting fields of morality or idealism. The first is old-fashioned ...
22 August 2007
Language teaching: plus ca change
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This is a piece I wrote in 1978 about a BBC language course. Apart from the fact that there is no longer an "East Germany", it cou...
15 August 2007
IQ as an ideological football
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Another book to which I am unable to publish a riposte, on a topic on which I have been prevented for decades from expressing my views: IQ: ...
12 August 2007
Dawkins: more straw men
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Headline and lead from a recent article in the Sunday Times by Peter Millar: The gullible age Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion sold...
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