Why did God create evil? A philosophy professor at the university asked his students the following question: “Is everything that exists created by God?” One student bravely answered: “Yes, created by God.” “So God create everything?” the professor restated. “Yes,…
A Lahaina Feel Good Story We have been on holiday taking a cruise from Sydney to Hawaii. We are staying in Ka’anapali, on the island of Maui, next to Lahaina and the devastation from the fires is still very raw.…
An Argument for the Resurrection It’s Easter and the celebration of the greatest miracle of all time: the resurrection of Jesus. I read the excerpt below many years ago as a teenager and it had big impact on me. I…
Losing Time Part 2 Dissociative alters (parts) are formed to protect you from ever seeing or knowing that the trauma event happened. Their role doesn’t end by simply concealing the originating trauma. Parts can come out and function for the…
Losing Time Part 1 There is a popular misconception that one of the ways you can determine whether you are dissociative is if you recognise that you are losing time. Therapists will ask patients or clients whom they think might…
Each year for the past seven years we have looked at an aspect of the birth of Jesus and challenged readers to consider a fresh perspective: that Dec 25 was not chosen to replace a pagan celebration; the origin of…
The Youth Crime Problem The term “university” is actually a composite of the words “unity” and “diversity.” When the first universities were founded 1000 years and right up until the early 19th century, those attending a university were guided in…
During eight evenings in September, we ran an Active Listening and Conflict Resolution course, on Zoom with attendees from Germany, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Highly interactive and quite challenging, it exposes how egocentric we are at listening and how…
Someone recently asked the main reason behind Anazao’s success. Because I have a tendency to over explain, the person stopped me part way through and said, “Could you summarize it in two or three sentences.” In other words, ‘Cut the…