The animal world seems to have a much greater understanding than we humans do about how their lives work best – in a community. Animals and insects seem to understand where they fit in their tribe and each of them are a significant and intrinsic element - of their tribe. So, what if we learned from these silent teachers and copied their habits? They’re here for a reason!

There’s rarely a conversation I have now where the subject - a dividing of the ways - doesn’t get raised by someone at some point. The reason though appears to be connected with events over the last four years. People seem to have become sensitised in ways that many find difficult to fathom. The question is – other than why is it happening – what are we to do about it?

Friends unfriend one another online – and even in real life – thoughtlessly and carelessly. People in positions of power expect others to support conflicts that kill innocent civilians. That’s not exactly new, of course, but the veneer has gone – it’s right out in the open now! Hating others is society’s new etiquette, it seems. That is – as long as it’s the right people being hated!

The idea of a better way of doing things is not new, of course. Perhaps, however, it’s a matter of timing. From the buzz around the “One Small Town” idea, it looks as if the world may be ready to embrace change. That change being - to release the old way of doing business – big business and the corporate model – and replace it with a new way.

Let’s spin the question around. Let’s not consider whether we have the “right” not to vote as well as the “right” TO vote. Let’s not even discuss it – let alone argue about it. As someone who’s had the “right to vote/right not to vote” argument more than once, I can say - it’s a bit like trying to persuade someone to change the football team they support. It’s pointless!

After all the division our society has suffered – particularly in the last four years –with so many people being separated from their “tribes” this is a painful and difficult time. Just as we’re settling into our new tribes, we’re hearing cracking noises – is it the sound of fault lines forming? The jar of black ants and red ants is being shaken again! Do you know who by?

Now, I don’t pretend to know the answers to any of this stuff. But you, hopefully like me, have an open mind on it all. Are we willing to sit with a thought or two which just might make a tad more sense than we’ve made of it so far? But looking back in through another window can be tough to do in itself – and that can be due to the new challenges it gives us.

The effect must be even more confusing – in a sense – for our children. On one hand they know too little of the world as it should be – but on the other, they either think they’re a boy or a girl - although are being told now by their teachers that they can be anything. This seems to border on cruelty to most of us and if not that – just insanity. But why? Why is any of this happening?

The calendar the Maya people had kept went back in time thousands of years. It also went forward in time – somewhat more than strangely – but ended in 2012 and without explanation. Is this as far as the Maya’s got, or did the Maya’s know something about the future of human population on earth? The 2012 date gained its own gravitas in history circles as a result.

The question we could start with, is simply this one. Can sense BE made of the bonkers state we are all in – a state of bonkers which appears to be getting worse with every day? Or do we believe what’s going on is all a rather odd collection of random events – appearing uncoordinated – but with an agenda behind them - orchestrated by unseen puppet strings?

The year 2020 saw a whole rash of pandemics – no pun intended! One of these conditions has spread to almost every part of our world and infected countless numbers of people - and there’s no sign of a cure for it yet.

One reason is – “What is it good for?” reflects the lyrics of a great song from the 1960s. The other reason is – it’s probably the better question to ask. As I write this, yet another war – or conflict, at least – is taking place. Yet another, that is, in addition to all the many wars and conflicts that were going on around the world a few weeks ago. This “new” war is in the Holy Land.

It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the man who invented the world’s first electronic television lived without electricity until he was 14 years old? But perhaps more ironic still is the United Nations claiming that television could play a role in resolving conflicts, reducing threats to peace and security and sharpen focus on how we deal with social and economic issues.

When I discovered a new trend in thinking, an argument that trees are an enemy, I was immediately concerned. This trend will sound unbelievable to many people – it did to me, too, at first. It’s a trend, however, based on a thought process we all need to be aware of – and to warn others about it before it becomes normalised. Who wants a world without trees?

The truth of the matter – I suggest – is that the horrors of which I speak, are not committed at the command of ordinary innocent people. That is, ordinary innocent children, their fathers and mothers – both Israeli and Palestinian. Instead, these horrors are inflicted on others from a safe bunker - where protected politicians can pull the levers of war with apparent impunity.

In the nineties, I joined a personal development initiative which was signed up to by hundreds around the world – all with big loving hearts and a desire to have a positive effect on people through a more spiritual view of life. It was then I learned that anything which is considered a bit “woo woo” – and this wasn’t, only refreshingly different – gets labelled as a Cult.

Lucy Letby was that nurse and she was found guilty on 7 counts of murder - the victims being babies in her care at the Countess of Chester Hospital. The trial extended for nearly 10mths and during that time there wasn’t one piece of evidence presented that proved her guilt. All the evidence against her was purely circumstantial. Also, certain evidence was excluded – why?

In large part, our personal Credibility Spheres are a function of different factors – including how receptive we are to new or conflicting ideas and particularly what we are prepared to believe – or even just consider – as told to us by others. Those others might be our parents, our teachers, our friends, persons we hold in high regard, our media, our politicians.

Excess deaths are going on in the UK and across a great swathe of the world. One MP, Andrew Bridgen, has – after months of trying – been granted a debate in parliament on this extremely serious issue. The debate - on Trends in Excess Deaths - is scheduled for a Friday afternoon. It’s a good time – if the aim is to keep the number of attending MPs down, that is!

The documentary - directed by Topher Field - shows how Melbourne – “the world's most liveable city” – became a terrifying hell for some of its citizens. At the same time, many other citizens of this city in the Australian state of Victoria were – and no doubt still are – unaware of what has been going on for more than three years. What happened to cause these parallel realities?