The Global Soul

If one breaks our body down to its very basic components, what do we have? Most will say water and carbon. Our body is composed of 60% water and 20% carbon. But let’s break things further down. We end up with two atomic elements Hydrogen and Oxygen. Be daring and go further down. We get atoms. Keep moving down. We get protons and neutrons, that form the nucleus of the atoms.  The nucleus…

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense.” — #Rumi

Pope John Paul II’s 1981 encyclical, Laborem exercens. Focusing on work and the individual, the pope made two fundamental points: Labor should be a greater priority than capital, and individuals should be more important than things. The un-Christlike fact is that replacing workers with robots would further line the pockets of tech oligarchs. The #AI industry is globalist, secular, liberal,…

Today I visited the memorial burial site of a King. The King of the #Aboriginals of the early Colony as anointed by Governor Macquarie. His name was #Bungaree. His memorial site is at Bungaree Reserve in Rose Bay, an eastern suburb of #Sydney. To pay my respects to the First Aboriginal to circumnavigate this Great Southern Land, the island continent of #Australia. Together with the Great…

I am walking along a path in Eora country. Along the northern edge of the Great Sydney Harbour. See photos. The ancestors of the Eora, an Aboriginal tribe of coastal Sydney, had arrived in the area around 30,000-40,000 years ago. The ancestors of these ancestors were the first invaders or colonists having landed in an empty of people northern Australian shores around 60,000 or more years ago.…

Have you ever wondered who invented writing? Or which was the first Civilisation of history? I have. So this is what I learned.  Back in the 17th Century there was an Italian who loved travelling. His name was Pietro Della Valle from Rome. One day he was travelling in the southern Iraqi desert on his camel when he saw in the distance a group of men that looked like robbers. And in the distance…

“Death is not the end of everything. It is the beginning of something” said Pope Francis This is my tribute to a man, a Pope, who I admired greatly. Find God in everything. Thats the simple principle of the Society of Jesus., “God’s warriors”: The Jesuits. And Pope Francis, a Jesuit, implemented that principle everyday. He looked for God’s presence and will in every aspect of life and human…

On a sunny warm spring day of April 1770, the Gweagal (an Indigenous clan) shouted that a strange object was coming up the coastline. It appeared to be a large “island” or barangga, which was seen floating into Gamay  (Botany Bay).  The barangga was the Endeavour, a British vessel on a scientific voyage under Captain James Cook. The pale skinned people in this barangga took whatever they wanted…

In this Christmas time I thought appropriate to think about the Most Important Jew in History and the Second Founder (some consider him the “Second Christ”) of Christianity : Saul of Tarsus or as we know him now Paul The Thirteenth Apostle. In the last four years humanity has been going through some very troubling times. Genocidal wars, threat of a nuclear world war, pandemics, poor leaders with…

#Egptian #History  I went to visit the exhibition of the artefacts and coffin of the Great Egyptian Pharaoh Ramsesses II.  In Ancient Greek texts he is referred to as Ozymandias. Ramsesses II is thought to the be Pharaoh at the time of the Jewish ‘Exodus’. My favourite actor Yul Brunner played Ramsesses II is the 1956 film The Ten Commandments. The Aussie actor Joel Egerton played Ramsesses II…

Most are aware of the recent release of #UFO files by the Pentagon. And that there were many UFO sightings that could not be explained. Imagine now that we try make contact with Extra Terrestrials (#ET )and succeed. The #Aliens reply back with a worrying message. It is clear these Aliens are a much more technologically advanced than human civilisation. How would you respond to the Alien message?…

The COVID pandemic concerns has been in most of our minds for several years. And we are still discussing where did the virus come from: the laboratory or from the wild? And in this blog I will discuss what I learnt from history that may point to an answer to our current queries. I know it is long, more than 140 words, so hopefully you will perservere. Let’s go back in time 235 years. The date is…

This is a historical story of a shipwreck, two lighthouses and a haunted cemetery in Sydney, Australia. The ghost story fun part is at the end for those with little patience or addicted to only 140 word reads ! There are lots of photos too that I took during my Flanerie of these sites. The shipwreck was the worst disaster in Australian naval history. It happened on a dark, stormy and windy night…

For many arrival to Sydney was by ship. The first thing they saw was the sheer sandstone rock bluffs of the Heads that rise about 80m above sea level and bound the passage into the Harbour. And after that many probably saw the buildings of the Quarantine Station on the western slope of North Head. A beautiful site, that contained so much pain and sorrow, with magnificent panoramic views of the…