Macbeth: ‘Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased [of guilt]?’ Doctor: ‘Therein the patient must minister to himself’. Do you ever feel guilty? Do you still feel guilty about stuff you did yesterday – or even 50 years ago? Ever thought about why? You choose to feel guilty in order to prove to […]
‘Nothing is either good or bad. But thinking makes it so.’ – Hamlet Pointing the self-righteous finger of judgment is the primary symptom of false-self-identification with ego. Judging is a core addiction that causes all the resentment, hatred, and conflict from marital bickering to nuclear war. Judging is an insidious delusion because it distorts all […]
Main Road to Misery, High Road to Hell: False Identification With The Ego ‘To be – or not to be – that is the question’ – Hamlet Do you want to know, deeply, who you really are and why you’re here (living on this planet)? Then click this link. Most people don’t. Most people cannot. […]
How to transform money from a symbol of happiness to the experience ‘Sometimes money costs too much’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson Only when you put your own happiness first, can happiness last. The mission of ‘happiness first consulting’ is to enable you to choose to be who you really are – and experience the authentic, […]
It is indisputable that whoever wrote ‘Shakespeare’ was a genius. It’s also obvious that he (or she, or they) wanted the authorship to remain anonymous – for a very long time. How would a genius maintain his cover for eternity? By doing what, say, Agatha Christie, or Conan Doyle, the genii of whodunnits, would do […]
Why would Shakespeare name his great farce 12th Night – when it seems to have nothing to do with The (Christian doctrine of ) Epiphany? Hidden in symbols, in the poetry, in invisible ink, is a cutting satire of Christian dogma, the dangerously heretical thread linking the sub-text of all 37 plays and clarifying 2,000 […]
‘Seek first to become thin within, thence to become thin without.’ – Anon I wanted to write a blog about my recent weight-loss success. Overweight and eating issues are such a major source of misery and hopelessness, I hope my personal experience may inspire some people to transcend the dogma of magazine ‘pseudoscience’ and take […]