Interpersonal Affairs

A study titled 'My Body or My Mind' published by the European Journal of Social Psychology suggest that when women feel objectified by men they internalise this perception, thinking of themselves as a sexual object, their cognitive ability, their...

The Uplift Festival actually has been really amazing. The energy generated IS valuable and IS a ripple that will roll on out. On the beach yesterday morning perhaps 500 people saw in the 'new world' too with our indigenous elders from many cultures,...

We all know that our lives, how we relate to our world, to each other has change dramatically with technology, especially with the advent of the smart phone and social media. How is this impacting on the wiring of our brain, that will be passed down...

The following is a list of links to various articles relating to the various social issues of our times that have been selected from other websites. Please feel free to email links to any articles you have come across you think might be of interest...

It has been written in many esoteric readings that the journey to greater enlightenment for the human has often been accompanied by a sense of loss, a stripping of perceived reality, a very challenging journey/quest whereby the ego undergoes a...

Love is where you are not. It would bomb as a pick up line, but it’s a concept of love worth pondering. They are the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a spiritual teacher who travelled the world in the twentieth century extolling the merits of...

The commercial success in 2008 of 'Longer Lasting Sex' advertising campaigns speaks volumes about society's dissatisfaction with sex, or at least a dissatisfaction with the distance between our sex lives and that which the media tells us is...

In April 2000, I travelled to London to participate in a compelling teaching seminar on Family Systems Therapy. It was led by the internationally acclaimed German psychotherapist and author Bert Hellinger. Somehow that experience has changed the way...

Mark O’Brien reflects upon the trend towards poor behaviour in our daily life and our public discourse and asks where is the virtual world taking...

An article published on the ABC site 13/2/2012 All gore: an inconvenient truth suggests that kids need to confronted with more gore so they can learn that they are fallable and that actions can...