I haven’t written a blog post for a while, so this will be a long one! So far, this year has been an incredible ending to what I can only describe as the first chapter of my true life. By ‘true life’, I mean my life now, standing up for what I believe in, after […]
The Gifting Economy
By February 12, 2016 5 Comments
One of the most spectacular things I have seen in my lifetime is a gifting economy in wide-scale operation, at the outlier festival Burning Man. Over 60,000 people manage to thrive in a makeshift city in the desert for a week, largely without money. The model works on mutual kindness rather than financial exchange. Although […]
Real Time Democracy
By February 3, 2016 5 Comments
If you think of platforms like Google, Facebook, Slack, and Wikipedia and the ways in which they have made the world so much more productive, collaborative and knowledgeable, it seems a shame that we have not used any of the lessons inherent within them to improve our societies. Our democracies are archaic. Really archaic. I […]
Telepathy and World Peace
By January 27, 2016 17 Comments
I often tell people that it only takes 50 coffees to solve any problem. Meeting people over coffee, discussing ideas and creating solutions is what I love doing. I usually joke that I have not got around to creating world peace through coffee yet, but it is something I plan to do. Especially now that […]
The Self Love Algorythm (Beta)
By January 20, 2016 11 Comments
Last week, I returned home after the most powerful week of my life. I visited the biofeedback meditation skunk works that is Biocybernaut for the third time, for 7 days of intensive biofeedback meditation. I woke up on Day 7 of that training and felt flat. The previous day, I’d had the biggest breakthrough of […]
Shades of Grey
By January 13, 2016 4 Comments
I used to have a very black and white view of the world. I used to think things were right or wrong, and answers were either yes or no. Thankfully – and sometimes harshly – life has taught me that things are not always as simple as that. The more I learn, the less I […]
The Minister of the Future
By January 6, 2016 2 Comments
A little while ago, I saw an article about Sweden’s Minister of the Future. It triggered something in me, because it is precisely the approach I wish more governments would adopt. Now, more than ever, it is becoming really important that governments adopt long-term thinking. Looking at governments and major organisations around the world, the […]
Raising the State
By December 30, 2015 3 Comments
Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post on forgiveness – which proved to receive quite a bit of feedback. Most of it has been overwhelmingly positive, but there have been a couple of questions worth further consideration. Some people asked: ‘What if I can’t forgive?’ Some of you find it an impossible task to […]
Forgiveness
By December 16, 2015 17 Comments
If there is one word that has made the biggest difference to my life in 2015, it is ‘forgiveness’. Earlier in the year, I started a deliberate process to discover all of the areas of my life and past that I have not truly and deeply come to terms with. Each day, I discover new […]
Imaginal Cells
By December 9, 2015 21 Comments
Have you heard of imaginal cells? Although they are associated with insect life-cycles – for me, they are a great metaphor for the way the world is undergoing transformation at the moment. Imaginal cells are the ones that create the incredible process of metamorphosis that occurs when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. These cells […]