New podcast. Life throughout the universe, evolving in consciousness. ETs. Whales. Song as a universal medium. http://www.peterrussell.com/TV/audio.php
Continue readingReturn to Natural Mind
New article on website, written as chapter for new book The View Seeking a better state of mind… Getting lost in Samsara… The Clinging Mind… Letting Go. http://www.peterrussell.com/SP/NaturalMind.php
Continue readingThe Wake-Up Call
The ancient Chinese symbol for crisis, wei-chi, combines two elements: danger and opportunity. The danger is that if one continues to pursue approaches that are no longer working, then disaster is imminent. The opportunity is to let go of the old patterns and find new ways of being that unleash new, and possibly unforeseen, potentials. […]
Continue readingRunning Dry
California. They call it the Golden state. The IT capital of the world. Were it a nation it would be the seventh most prosperous in the world. But all that may be about to change. Few will have failed to notice that the winter rains were down—again. Reservoirs are below 50% capacity. This time last […]
Continue readingA Meditation for Air Travellers
Airplanes would be an ideal place to meditate—nothing to do, lots of spare time to relax—except for one thing; all the noise and bustle going on around you. In that respect, an airplane might seem the worst place to meditate. To make meditating in a plane both easy and enjoyable I have recorded a basic […]
Continue readingSwim with whales – Tahiti – Sept 2009
Come swim with humpback whales and their new calves in the pristine clear waters of Polynesia. Each year, from July to October, South Pacific humpback whales come to this spot to give birth. September is the best month to be with them, when the new calves are old enough to venture close. Each day, we […]
Continue readingWaiting Is
“Waiting Is”—a phrase immortalized in Robert Heinlein’s celebrated sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. For most of us waiting is not easy, often a bore. Waiting for a bus or train, we look for something to do to pass the time. Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, we idle away the minutes thumbing through […]
Continue readingThe Food Crisis
We have heard plenty about the dangers of peak oil, global warming, banking meltdowns, and global pandemics, but the most critical crisis of all, that of food, looms largely unnoticed. When we have thought about a food crisis it has usually been in terms of there not being enough food. But in recent times a […]
Continue readingGreenhouse Cost of Beef
Offset your driving by becoming a vegetarian! A study by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan, showed that producing a kilogram of beef leads to the emission of greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 36.4 kilograms of carbon dioxide. That is about the same as driving the average […]
Continue readingThe Art of Letting Go – Double CD
“Just let go” we are often told, yet letting go never seems easy. This is often because we treat it as something we need to do; but letting go is an “undoing”, a releasing of the “holding on.” The first CD explores: The nature of attachment and non-attachment. Inner freedom as the freedom to choose […]
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