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Can spirituality inform public policy? Yes, no, and maybe.

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29 Sep 2014

Jonathan Rowson

If spirit is a name for the resistant and transcending faculties of the agent, we can spiritualize society. We can diminish the distance between who we are and what we find outside of ourselves. - Roberto Unger, The Self Awakened p38.

Mindfulness: more than a fad, less than a revolution.

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30 Apr 2014

Jonathan Rowson

Meditation is simply about being yourself, and knowing something about who that is. - Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Thinking of the UK as 'post-Christian' is surprisingly helpful.

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28 Apr 2014

Jonathan Rowson

You may have noticed the media have recently been interested in the question of whether Britain is a Christian country. The story went something like this:

Beyond the Bunnies - Why Easter is for Grown Ups

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17 Apr 2014

Jonathan Rowson

Easter, where have you been all my life? I will be 37 on Good Friday, but only today did I get round to inquiring into what the Easter story might mean for those who genuinely wanted to know.

Is good mental health ultimately about looking after your soul?

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01 Apr 2014

Jonathan Rowson

We think more than we can say. We feel more than we can think. We live more than we can feel. And there is much else besides (Eugene Gendlin). Perhaps the soul is what we mean when we reflect on that 'much else besides'. - Iain McGilchrist

What Happened to the Soul?

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31 Mar 2014

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and author.

The Inner Power to Create

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24 Mar 2014

Jonathan Rowson

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Science and Spirituality: 'Effing the Ineffable'

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10 Feb 2014

Jonathan Rowson

What is glimpsed is a world in which there is greater trust and less worry; in which mystery or uncertainty do not need to constantly explained and understood, but can simply be met as they appear....

The Spiritual and the Political: Beyond Russell Brand

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26 Jan 2014

Jonathan Rowson

For me, the solution has to be primarily spiritual and secondarily political.