Explorations of alternate realities
Mythquake is a book I’ve been trying to write for well over a decade, and I guess it’s time I accepted that I probably never will: I’ve kinda moved on from there onto other things, and my heart just isn’t …
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The headline article in The Independent caught my attention this morning: ‘Head of bomb detector company arrested in fraud investigation‘. “This is an act of terrible betrayal”, wrote the Independent’s defence journalist Kim Sengupta in a parallel piece – clearly …
(Following up on the furore from my previous post – somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course, but with a serious point.) After Dave Snowden started accusing everyone – especially me – of ‘pseudoscience’ and ‘psychobabble’ – I began to worry. What if …
It started, as these things so often do, with a Tweet on Twitter. (This has turned out to be an enormously long post – I’d better put a ‘Read more…’ link in here before continuing.)
Spent part of last weekend at the annual conference of the British Society of Dowsers – the folks who do water-divining (‘water-witching’ in the US) and similar skills. I’ve worked with them at various times over the past thirty or …
It’s both saddening and sobering to reach the age where close friends and colleagues start appearing in the Obituary columns in the national newspapers… A couple of years ago it was Mike Mepham, who worked with me for some years …
A few days ago I had a last-minute request to present at the Metageum conference in London this weekend. (Don’t quite know how to categorise Metageum: kind of an earth-mysteries focus – Stonehenge and that sort of stuff, if you …
At last finished our article for Time & Mind – final title is “‘Spirit of Place’ as process – archaeography, dowsing and perceptual mapping at Belas Knap“, and should be out in their July 2009 issue. (Many thanks also to …
Currently overdue (of course?) with an article for Paul Devereux, for his new formal journal Time & Mind (‘The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture’). Working with my colleague Liz Poraj-Wilczynska, the aim is to present the same general ideas …
Prepared a handout on The Disciplines of Dowsing for the book-launch at the British Society of Dowsers conference this weekend, and realised it would probably be of more general use as well. You’ll find it up on the Tetradian Books …