the noose

There really is nothing new under the sun. Despite the waves of new generations of humans - the ideas, beliefs, questions and debates about what it is to be human today are largely the same as found in the earliest oral traditions of the first sentient beings. From the Hindu Upanishads and the earliest sacred texts that founded the all great religions, to the Greek and modern European philosophers, soothsayers, sages, gurus and self help and personal develoment books, the quest for a potent formula that will relieve us of our condition on earth rages on ...

I've read them all only to learn less than I knew before ... and I always return to the painful truth that is before us each day but to which we avert our gaze ...

My favourite quote:

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

That we can laugh nervously at our extinction, and our silly endeavours, and still make jokes on our deathbeds is all the evidence we need that there is still a faint mystic impulse in a crass and accidental world ...

Nevertheless, the formula, like the mythical elixir of life, is the obsession ...there never was a formula, nor ever will be, and that is the formula ... sorry

but there is still that very faint mystic pulse ...