by Peter | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
The homunculus In the Middle Ages, some believed the homunculus -the little human with a voice inside our heads- told us what to think and do. But, of course, one of the problems with this belief, was the question of who or what told the homunculus what to tell us?...
by Peter | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Every society has its norms. When you are inside, they seem permanent- they seem normal. In Hinduism, there is no clear right and wrong. Christians, Muslims and Jews are brought up on the idea of pairs of opposites, the idea that you are either for or against us, and...
by Peter | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
In 2010 the activist started a private school and built a temple dedicated to a new deity, ‘Dalit Goddess English’. His supposition was that Dalits, being socially and educationally excluded, should learn English so as to advance. The bronze image of ‘Dalit Goddess...
by Peter | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
The other week I was visiting Glasgow for four days for its Celtic Connections Music Festival. The following is my account of a disturbing scene while breakfasting in a Holiday Inn Hotel. I saw a couple in their, I would say late 30’s – early 40’s...
by Peter | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Naming isn’t explaining! In the case of naming a child it’s linking a ‘sound pattern’ to the newborn. In those cultures where naming is delayed until the infants’‘character’ becomes apparent, naming is synonymous with placing the infant in the same ‘sound...
by Peter | Dec 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Bill Cooke gave a talk on 4th December 2023 on Anti-semitism (its history) to the Warrington Literary and Philosophical Society. He illustrated one manifestation of the conflict between two religions by showing a slide with two statues from the south portal of...
