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"...there is no knowing what will happen next and so you only have the embrace of the present moment, humble submission to its gifts and surprises and trust that everything works out as it should." Facing the Unknown WILLOW MURTON

"A change in the era" – Peter Young speaks to students on the Beshara School visit to Turkey in December 2010 in the setting of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. WATCH

Students talk about their experience of the six-month intensive course at the Beshara School on the final day, March 24th 2010.
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EMERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE

- PETER YIANGOU

Ultimately, both spirituality and science are looking for the truth and meaning of our existence, and if we accept that there is only one reality in existence, then there can't be two opposing versions of it. Although there can be different points of view, there must also be a global view that combines them all. The question is, where is it? When we look at why we are alive with an open and brave mind, although we may start with questions about the nature of God or the universe, they all eventually lead back to ourselves: 'who is it that is asking these questions – who am I, really?'
Extracts from a talk given at Paramedina University, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2010.

ON THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT KNOWING

- IAN RICKETTS

Speak with a polymath of today's world, like Jonathan Miller, and all his scholarship and understanding is brought to the acuity of his attention, to his not knowing. The temptation for most of us is preparation of a reply, battalions of knowledge that will protect us from the charge of ignorance. We gather facts and strategies to marshal a defence or support a technology.