The dulcet tones of Cher belting out Gershwin’s Ain’t Necessarily So over Larry Adler’s mouth organ is the way we introduce tales from the past. It ain’t necessarily so is an opportunity for the Patriarch to pontificate. In this week’s episode I’m going to pontificate about… Dealing with Dennis Claude
Vita founder, Guy Lane, and Geoff Ebbs work through some of the issues surrounding spirituality, religious institutions and Science. They revisit the issues raised by Stephan Harding of the Schumacher College and Ella Noah Bancroft… Vita Awakening
She put the hot dumpling, dripping with Apricot syrup, in my mouth and I struggled to roll it around in my mouth to stop it burning. “Now bite.” When I did as I was told,… The hot dumpling erupted in my mouth dripping syrup
So, 502 years ago in Technotitlan (now known as Mexico City) Cortes met Montezuma in a major episode of the European conquest of the globe with the pope’s blessing in the form of the Doctrine… Cortes & Montezuma
I mentioned earlier that my nineteenth century family were Rechabites and pyromaniacs. They were farmers also and while not religiously opposed to mechanical devices, owned none. There was no electricity in the house, the cows… A barrel of powder: The power of the flower
When I was a boy – well, much younger than I am now, in the nineteenth century – my family were Rechabites. A poster on our farmhouse wall pictured Jesus with sheep, a family and… The Independent Order of Rechabites