Future apocalypse, prophesied down the centuries, has today moved out of the entertainment sphere, out of all those disaster movies and sci-fi novels, and into the political and scientific arenas. Twenty-first century apocalypticism, for overtly political ends, now abounds in mainstream climate change and pandemic rhetoric where even well-educated people…

Digitalisation obviously has its benefits but it also has a dark potential which needs more open discussion Could we be under sentence to a ‘digital prison’ where every aspect of our lives — and I mean every aspect — would be monitored and managed with Orwellian alacrity and rigour? It…

New research suggests the stone circles of Co Cork and Co Kerry were planned as solar monuments constructed for prehistoric fertility rituals involving sunrise ‘shadow dramas’ symbolising a ‘marriage of the gods’ The deep mysteries of the stone circles of south-west Ireland are being unravelled by the archaeologist, meteorologist and…

About 8,000 years ago, there was titanic landslide in the Norwegian Sea, resulting in a catastrophic tsunami that swept across low-lying islands which were once part of a land-bridge — Doggerland — connecting Britain to mainland Europe. Three Storegga Slides, as they are called, occuring at the edge of Norway’s…

Remarkable new analysis of the source texts of the Bible seeks to revolutionise our understanding of the origins of Christianity and Judaism One has long suspected that much of the Bible contains nothing more than a selection of folk tales and myths. Now, an incendiary new trilogy, A Bonfire of…

‘If consciousness is like a limitless ocean, a soul might be likened to a surfer’s wave, albeit one that endures over time.’ Daniel Drasin With more than thirty years of research into the afterlife and paranormal phenomena, Daniel Drasin surveys the evidence for human consciousness continuing after death and insists…

‘Consciousness in its essence is not bound to matter and the human psyche has no boundaries or limits’. Benig Mauger Drawing on her experiences as a Jungian therapist and spiritual teacher, and her life in Connemara on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, Benig Mauger has written a deeply personal memoir about…

Reflections on ‘The Beara Light’ photographic exhibition held in the coastal village of Allihies on the Beara peninsula, south-west Ireland, in June 2023 Art, and specifically its relation to nature, might turn out to be the last bastion against the dehumanisation of the world. There are pernicious forces at work…

What is spiritual intelligence? That’s the question I asked myself when the publishers recently suggested I might like to write about Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps by Mark Vernon (Iff Books) because it was ‘on its way to being one of our best-selling non-fiction titles’ since publication in December 2022…