Evan on March 26th, 2009

I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog.  It is exploring how much pleasure is the ruling value of life.  And if it’s not does suffering have a positive value?  I think these are difficult but very important questions.  It was a difficult post to write but I hope it [...]

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Evan on December 24th, 2008

Image by visulogik Today I’m very happy to present a guest post by Barbara Gregor. This is the second time I have hosted a post by Barbara – her first one is When You Learn Abuse You Live Abuse. Just like her first post this one is vivid and deals with an important issue in [...]

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Evan on August 6th, 2008

I’ve done a guest post on Tom Stine’s blog. The post is called Detach for Contentment. It’s a bit different to what I normally write for this blog. I hope you like it, I enjoyed writing it. And I think the comments are well worth reading too. I’ve linked to Tom Stine’s blog several times. [...]

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Evan on August 4th, 2008

Image by SqueakyMarmot This is a guest post by Tom Stine. His blog tomstine.com is about spirituality and awakening. I have reviewed Tom’s blog and pointed to a number of his posts. I’m delighted to have him as a guest on my blog. I recently read an article on divorce that contained the usual “facts” [...]

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Evan on July 13th, 2008

Image by Ankit Kumar1 Later this year I plan to launch a course called Living Authentically. The course is designed to help you find who you are and how to live from this knowledge. To do this it gives a map of authentic experience so you can know when you stop living authentically. For more [...]

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Evan on June 30th, 2008

Image by honey-bee This is a guest post by Maria Gajewski whose blog I recommend. I read a post about her new book on her blog and thought it was perfect for this blog. So I emailed Maria and she kindly consented to do a guest post for me. I hope you like it – [...]

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Evan on June 27th, 2008

Image by Amir Fathi Disappointment isn’t often viewed positively in the self-help or self-development world. This is hardly surprising – it’s quite an unpleasant experience (at least for me). An exception to this is Joanna Macy. Her take on disappointment is that disappointment is valuable because, “When you are disappointed you are not pretending” (my [...]

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Evan on June 13th, 2008

Image by *L*U*Z*A* Whenever I need a metaphor for the spirit or spirituality I come back to light. The light I mean is natural light, not the harshness of neon or other fluorescent kinds. For me these all seem harsh or distorting of colours. The kind of light I mean is sunlight.Light is my favourite [...]

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