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This was the first of a series of lectures delivered before the Truth-Seekers' free debating society on May 28, 1863 by my 2nd great grandfather Dr Th. Berigny. I've been transcribing it with the help

From Yapa: Before you hear our story, Before you hear your story, Or the writing of the language, Of the country of our ancestors, And the country of your ancestors, Or the name of a spirit or ancestor,

To this image I wrote this on social media: "Supporting people based on misplaced loyalty to some intangible ideals that hardly ever eventuate and then coming up with all kinds of rationalisations

Is this where both left and right politics agree, that exalting the “common good” is how societies improve? For example, these could be quotes from Hitler or Che Guevara (they are): “We do assert, however,

Definitions are fluid and once facism meant big business and big government working together for a centralised monopoly over anyone else not interested in coming to the party. Swap big business for big

It's worth realising the importance of us all paying our debts. Societies and communities won't function if most people don't honour their promises to pay for services they are provided and use. It's worth

When it comes to our knowing our lawful position in Australia it's worth looking at trust structures. Value is what is held in a trust, that is the point of why any trust exists. Experiencing our peaceful

Was part of a short project using EEG and VR. The idea was at least conceptually, that people could dynamically learn to train their brains, with a really high definition of feedback available - so all

What makes designers super.... updated and revised from a variety of sources. For me, humility is often overlooked. I know when I feel afraid of being judged or fear of failure, I often immediately take

For babies learning to walk, the suffering of falling isn't so great to not want to keep trying to walk. Maybe the pain of a fall is just trumped by the desire to learn, to walk around, gain competence

I just read Paul Craig Roberts recent post along the same lines about how close we are to a nuclear holocaust: After reading Caitlin Johnstone's piece of a similar nature: I'm an avid reader of both history

Summary - the Value Growth Model This model focuses on growth in value, why and how it occurs in succinct and effective ways. It's based on a model for growth that’s been adhered to since life

Two years ago I was involved in a project that was about creating a way to enable a gift economy. This is an economy that runs on faith. Faith is like trust but it's more like being and doing things as

If you take a pure break down of the words Ab-original and In-digenous, it looks like these words are very different in meaning in respect of property ownership than most people would like acknowledge.

What does it mean to be Australian? I was born on this land and that ties me to it. By the Preamble to the Constitution, this makes me an heir to the people of the Commonwealth. "The Commonwealth"

There are many emotions and we have thousands of names for them. There are as many reasons about what they are and why they exist too. So I want to simplify it for everyone. I’m not saying that this

There are people who believe they have a divine right to rule over you. Those people believe so because they're under an impression that this right is passed down to them. They also refer to what's in

When I was younger I used to go out in big surf, partly to face the fear, partly to impress my mates, and well a big part was riding those monster waves and the rush of it too. It would mean though that

I don't know everything and you probably don't either. But when I'm sure I know something, I don't often put it through this test. Let's say I know TRON which I'm invested in will "moon" eventually.

Could it be we always move between various realities all the time but doesn't feel like that because we experience each and every shift as one continuous journey? So maybe reality is a series of our own