Marianne en David 4 mei 20213 minutenRaising the BarSome of you will have attended the recent webinar with Prof Jeffrey Kripal talking about his new book The Flip. He defines a ‘flip’ as an...
Marianne en David 4 mei 20213 minutenHeresy, Dissidence and AuthoritySo-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ are the new heretics and dissidents. This weaponised and derogatory term was invented by the CIA in the...
Marianne en David 4 mei 20212 minutenMeaning and Mental ResilienceIn the summer of 1983, I spent a day of strange and stark contrasts, visiting Goethe’s elegant house in Weimar in the morning and...
Marianne en David 4 mei 20212 minutenPolarity and PolarisationI spent the summer of 1973 at the University of Grenoble, a delightful city that was also the home of Hector Berlioz. One of the books I...
Marianne en David 4 mei 20212 minutenAffirming our HumanityThe 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto on nuclear weapons concludes with the following words: “Remember your humanity, and forget the rest....