The Chosen
Book 2 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
The Standing Dead
Book 3 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
The Mirror Breaks
Book 6 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
The Darkness Under The Trees
Book 4 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
The Third God
Book 7 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
The Masters
Book 1 of The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
Website upgrade and the new SDC Companion
During a major upgrade to this Website, I took the opportunity to create a new, much more interactive, reader-focused SDC Companion
Lobsang Rampa and what we choose to believe
When I was perhaps 14, I was intrigued with books by Lobsang Rampa, but I could only afford to buy very few books with my pocket money, and so I would buy another Asimov. Leafing through one of those Lobsang Rampa books, I recall reading about the mummified bodies of giants hidden under the Potala Palace in Lhasa. I don’t know whether I knew anything much about Tibet then, or whether, indeed, it was this …
force majeur
Snow has fallen heavily along the coast of the British Isles – 60cm, perhaps. With our maritime climate, this kind of weather is unusual enough that it has never been worthwhile investing vast resources in proofing our infrastructure against it: but common enough that when it happens it brings chaos. From the midst of this chaos rises the usual outcry: why can’t they do something about it? The same voices would be the first to …
clenching…
Something that I have observed in my body is how I react to stress by ‘clenching’ – not just in the obvious places such as the stomach – but in different parts of my body according to what it is that is getting to me. This can be a very subtle ‘tightening’ and can occur when I hear something about myself I don’t like, or about someone or something else. Or someone singing whose voice …