Yoga and the Heart

In my yoga class we have a brief period of time at the start and close of each class when we all chant Om. Over time this action has changed for me from “something we do” into a deeper experience.

Talking with my instructor about this, and paying attention to the chanting itself, alerted me to [...]

Sifting through….

That’s what I was doing when I was looking at my spam folder. And suddenly, right there, was a link for a site that offered to sell me counterfeit passports. Any country I wanted. “High grade printing techniques” they claimed, were the secret of their success. I notice they didn’t offer any guarantees, though. No [...]

The Iron Lady - Thatcherism again….

I confess, I haven’t yet seen “The Iron Lady”. I’m afraid to. I’m afraid about how angry I’ll get. I’ve been reading reviews, though. In the US people are charmed; in the UK people seem to be stunned that a movie could miss the point so badly.

I left England, nearly thirty years ago, when [...]

Piracy: A strange thing….

“Buy Zithromycn” says the tag. Whatever that is. That’s what some clever soul has managed to attach to my Google. website search. Tap in “allanhunter.net” and you’ll get the site reference, but with all sorts of pleas to buy various pharmaceuticals. I do not endorse these items. Never have. Doubt I ever will. [...]

Republican Hate Speech

Several Republican candidates have recently been speaking in ways that come very close to hate speech. Santorum’s anti-gay statements, especially about gay families, have only shown him as ignorant and as a hopelessly un-informed outsider. He might want to check the US Census Bureau’s definition of ‘family’ before he makes his comments.

The trouble is [...]

Upcoming Workshops 2012

I’ll be giving several workshops in the New Year. At Curry College I’ll be offering two fourteen week classes of The Therapeutic Uses of Writing - my ever popular workshops designed to uncover the unconscious stories we live by. (The course numbers are  ENG 3440 and 3550).

I’ll also be hosting a one day Memoir writing [...]

Interview with Wendy Garrett

Today I had the real delight of talking about “The Path of Synchronicity” with Wendy Garrett, host of Empower Radio: www.empoweradio.com . It’s always a pleasure to be interviewed for radio, and Wendy is certainly one of the very best people to talk with when it comes down to understanding the ways of the universe.

Check [...]

The New Book: A Diet Book for the Soul

“Spiritual Hunger” will be ready for purchase in about February 2012.  It’s about that emptiness inside that we tend to fill with various activities of a compulsive nature.  Shopping, for example, might come under that heading…. Over-indulgences of all kind fit the category.

So how do we feed that spiritual emptiness, and what with? Think of [...]

Phillip Roth

I just read “Everyman”, and since Roth is one of our national icons it seemed like a good idea to find out why.

I confess to being disappointed. The short novel is centered on the medical procedures attendant on aging and death, but the world the unnamed everyman figure inhabits is purely physical. There was no [...]

A Victorian Christmas? We Need a Change.

The present form of Christmas, which includes family gatherings and trees and presents, was invented and puffed into being in England in the early Nineteenth century, Queen Victoria’s reign, by the wealthy middle classes.

Until then Easter had been the holiest time of the year; which made sense as it was possible to travel at Easter [...]