Why I don’t meditate
Even the hardest-nosed sceptic would find it difficult to deny that meditation brings a number of significant benefits. Why then don’t I meditate?
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The feeling of achievement
How a mediocre game of tennis reveals the key to the sense of achievement.
ReadHaving faith is a complex business
How can people really believe this stuff? Rising from the grave isn’t even the most preposterous part of the Easter story. Far more bizarre is the claim that God had to send his son to die for our sins. And if God really wanted all humanity to heed his message, why did the resurrected Christ only reveal himself to a few select people before ascending to heaven?
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When I turned 30, too many years ago to mention, I raised a glass and toasted my entry to middle age. Everyone else was shocked by this, thinking I was being premature. Perhaps the real reason for their recoiling was that if 30 really was middle aged, that made the rest of them either middle-aged themselves, too close to it for comfort or—god forbid—old…
ReadBBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking
FREE THINKING – BBC RADIO 3, 26 MARCH. Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me? Anne McElvoy enlists the help of Diversify author June Sarpong, doctor and medical historian Gavin Francis, performer and transgender activist Emma Frankland and philosopher Julian Baggini to tackle contemporary ideas about the ever changing notions of the self. Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead.
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