Philosophy was my first
love as an undergraduate, and after taking a
range of first year courses, including
statistics, economics, philosophy and sociology,
I chose philosophy and graduated with a first
from Reading University in 1978. I continued all
the way through Oxford, taking the prestigious
B.Phil. I didn't take to Oxford philosophy
though; seeing it as dry, dull and unoriginal; so
I took my Ph.D. in Warwick. Thereafter, there
were hardly any career opportunities in
philosophy, so I switched to computing in the mid
80s. I think this was a very good move.
First Return in Midlife: the ConversationsI returned in
later life to the subject, but the philosophy
that I wrote was very different from that in
which I had been educated. The first return was
in 2004, when I wrote Conversations
of Taoist Master Fu Hsiang. This was a
short philosophical treatise, written as a
dialogue in the manner of Plato, designed to
teach Taoism. Actually, the Conversations
held strong elements of gnostic Christianity and
neo-Platonism that crept upon me unawares. The Conversations
is therefore a bridge between the Eastern and the
Western mind. You can purchase this book over
Amazon.
Second
Return in Later Life: Bending
the Wyrd
I've
had an unusual life, in that the spirit world has
intruded upon me much more so that with many
others. During a fifteen year period, I had to
battle adepts of the Left Hand Path, who belong
to what is referred to in popular culture as the
Dark Side. The attentions of the Dark Side
changed the way I viewed the universe.
Subsequently
when I came to write my autobiography, Bending
the Wyrd, in 2024, much was written on the
psychosphere and the darker aspects of it. Bending
the Wyrd is full of esoteric philosophy. At
the time of writing, it is being considered for
publication by John Hunt publishers. You can
learn more about it here. Watch this space to
learn more.
I also
opened a philosophy channel on Youtube, but have
been engaged in other matters and have not
pursued it. There is a book of philosophical
essays of which the video on Youtube is the
first, but the book has not yet been released.
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