About the work I do
There’s a funny dilemma I face when asked, “What’s your book about?” or “What do you teach?” My work has grown out of a lifelong passion for identifying the patterns...
The Tyrant’s Confusion
In his classic book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell presents not just the hero, but also the tyrant with a thousand faces – and shows him to...
Allies and Apprenticeships
You can’t do it alone. Not because you haven’t got what it takes, but because that’s not how things are. We are told the contrary, of course – “Stand on...
The Resolution Question
The last day of 2015 now belongs to history, and 2016 stretches before us unformed and unknown but already being created. The sense of new beginnings makes this the time...
The Fluorescent Dance, and a Mind Divided
Our modern inclination to live in our heads has left us dissociated from the body – and we commonly describe that dissociation as a mind/body split. Our description, though, merely...
Wholeness and Desire
A well-known neurological phenomenon is expressed in a catchy maxim: “What fires together wires together.” This phrase tells us that if two distinct neural pathways habitually fire together, they eventually...
The One Thing We Completely Understand
A little excerpt from the book I’m currently writing, Radical Wholeness. One of the most difficult tasks we face is to uncover the hidden assumptions that shape our living and...
The Lotus Eaters
In chapter nine of Homer’s epic The Odyssey, a strange event is described: Odysseus arrived with his crew in the country of the Lotus Eaters, and chose three scouts to...
Gut Instincts: The Neurological Pathways in your Stomach
Neurological Pathways in a very Unlikely Place. By Philip Shepherd Philip Shepherd is the author of ‘New Self , New World ’, a book that among other things, looks at...