Jun 30 2008
About
About this blog:
This blog contains my essays and thoughts, and the thoughts of others that I want to share. I keep another blog that is my diary. For about 2 years they were the same blog, so I’m slowly trying to pick them apart.
About me:
I grew up in a small town in Cornwall, moving to Plymouth to go to secondary school. My mother was and is a psychotherapist and my father was a civil servant. At school I was utterly useless and deeply depressed. I left with mediocre grades, but after an inspiring lecture from Peter Vardy , I decided to study for a BA in Philosophy, Religion and Ethics. It was the first year that Heythrop College would be running that degree, so even a failing student like myself could get in.
It was never that I was actually stupid, it was simply that I didn’t fit into the school system. At university I proved this. While being very bad at actually turning in work, I quickly built a reputation for fierce classroom debates and excellent presentations. My exam grades were also good, especially if I decided to answer questions I hadn’t revised for. In the end the contrast of my poor coursework, good exam results, and a fiendishly good dissertation on Kierkegaard and Nietzsche led to a lot of debate about my final grade. They gave me a 2:1 in the end.
A degree in philosophy, especially one like mine that is less about pure logic and more about application, does not teach answers. It teaches how to properly ask questions, which is an art in itself. Since leaving college I have studied mythology a great deal, along with various theologies, and later, magic and the esoteric. At the age of 23 I found the thing that I call “the Truth”, and I was given the title of Guardian. With this base of knowledge, and with a passion for social change and a love for everything that lives, I’ve set about trying to explain what I’ve discovered so far, and to find out more.
My professional life has so far encompassed web design and frontline IT support, public speaking, running committees, being a receptionist, and doing freelance IT consultancy and training. I have recently opened a holistic community centre called Star Mountain where I make fantastic coffee, chat to people, and generally try to offer what support I can.
I’m only 26. I’m very young. This website is about giving my path a public face, seeking like minded people, and sharing what I’ve worked out so far. A lot of people hang around, just to see what happens next…
