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Christopher Titmuss, a former Buddhist monk in Thailand and India, teaches Awakening and Insight Meditation around the world. He is the founder and director of the Dharma Facilitators Programme and the Living Dharma programme, an online mentor programme for Dharma practitioners. He gives retreats, participates in pilgrimages (yatras) and leads Dharma gatherings. Christopher has been teaching annual retreats in Bodh Gaya, India since 1975 and leads an annual Dharma Gathering in Sarnath since 1999. A senior Dharma teacher in the West, he is the author of numerous books including Light on Enlightenment, An Awakened Life and Transforming Our Terror. A campaigner for peace and other global issues, Christopher is a member of the international advisory council of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. . Poet and writer, he is the co-founder of Gaia House, an international retreat centre in Devon, England. He lives in Totnes, Devon, England.

ManHole or ManWhole? A Red Card from Football. Addressing men’s abuse, violence and racism in England and elsewhere.

Business, Science Critiques / /

We witness in England increasing levels of nationalism, racism and violence. England’s defeat in last Sunday’s European Cup Final exposed the dark side of the personality among a minority of English men engaged in rage against defeat. Men can descend to a dark hole bringing out the worst and have no idea how to develop a sense of wholeness.

More and more people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland may well wish to distance themselves from association with the unresolved shadows in England of those who advocate prejudice and display forms of xenophobia. …

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ManHole or ManWhole? A Red Card from Football. Addressing men’s abuse, violence and racism in England and elsewhere. Read More »

A Crisis in Belief – secular, religious and spiritual. A talk in St. Mary’s Church, Totnes, Devon. 6 pm-6.45 pm Thursday 15 July, 2021.

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St. Mary’s Church in Totnes high street dates back around 1000 years with the current Anglican church built in the 15th century.
More than a 1000 years of Christian prayer have filled this sacred area.

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A Crisis in Belief – secular, religious and spiritual. A talk in St. Mary’s Church, Totnes, Devon. 6 pm-6.45 pm Thursday 15 July, 2021.Read More »

A Crisis in Belief – secular, religious and spiritual. A talk in St. Mary’s Church, Totnes, Devon. 6 pm-6.45 pm Thursday 15 July, 2021. Read More »

Sixteen Reasons why Vaccinations and Human Behaviour cannot offer Full Protection against Covid-19. The global pandemic will haunt most countries, perhaps all, on this Earth for years to come.

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Medical scientists and the pharmaceutical industry tell us week after week of the importance of getting a vaccination against Covid-19 and its variants. Research shows that the jab proves to be 90% effective or more. That is to be truly welcomed.

That amounts to nine out of 10 people. That still leaves in the UK with a population of more than 60 million some six million people for whom the vaccination does not work so well – if all adults in the country had the jab. …

Sixteen Reasons why Vaccinations and Human Behaviour cannot offer Full Protection against Covid-19. The global pandemic will haunt most countries, perhaps all, on this Earth for years to come.Read More »

Sixteen Reasons why Vaccinations and Human Behaviour cannot offer Full Protection against Covid-19. The global pandemic will haunt most countries, perhaps all, on this Earth for years to come. Read More »

Obituary of Khantipalo, (1932 to 5 July 2021), a former Theravada monk, Buddhist author/scholar from the UK.

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A well-respected former Theravada monk, Phra Khantipalo  originally from Norfolk, England, died aged 89 in a care home in Melbourne, Australia on 5 July 2021,

In his early 20s, he joined the British Army referred to as national conscription. In 1956, soldiers in the British, French and Israel army attacked Egypt to regain control over the Suez Canal.

During this period, Lawrence Mills (later Venerable Khantipalo), a tall, gaunt figure, read a book on Buddhism. The book changed his life. …

Obituary of Khantipalo, (1932 to 5 July 2021), a former Theravada monk, Buddhist author/scholar from the UK.Read More »

Obituary of Khantipalo, (1932 to 5 July 2021), a former Theravada monk, Buddhist author/scholar from the UK. Read More »

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