Wisdom is essentially a deeper understanding of life and the world – and of ourselves – an outlook which can lead to more intelligent choices, more beautiful relationships, and more peace and happiness, and optimum living. It can promote more harmony amongst all people, leading to a world of peace, love and understanding.

I think wisdom can be very pivotal in bringing about a more enlightened world. After spending almost half my life, focused pretty passionately on life’s fundamental questions and answers, on philosophy and spirituality, I’ve come to see that together with all the other beautiful and powerful healing modalities and practices a lot of us are engaging in, it will benefit us hugely to deepen our understanding of life, and experience more clarity and wisdom,  bringing about a grander experience of life, and a more beautiful world for us all.

To serve this idea, I’m developing www.homeofwisdom.com (not displayed yet) as a home of all things wise and true.

These are some of the key features and offerings on the website:

• • a library of wisdom relating to fundamental aspects of life and the world.

  • a place where people can learn about the principles of life and share their own wisdom

  • a forum where people can discuss life issues and current situations functionality which enables people to rate ideas and theories, and get an idea of what more/most people agree on.

  • various offerings from world teachers in written, audio and video formats

  • an offering of self development, and spiritual growth courses.

Wisdom is not something that is ancient, or dying! It is today. It is here. It is now! Wisdom is alive and well, and growing, and developing.  I believe everybody has wisdom of some sort or the other. Homeofwisdom.com is a space in which to remind us that it is alive, to refine it, share it, and celebrate it. The basic purpose is to help humanity learn how to live enlightened lives and create a better world.

I have a dream… a simple, yet grand dream – Heaven on Earth in our lifetime.

If you’re interested to contribute, have a suggestion, or would like to be informed of the launch, leave your details below and I’ll stay in touch.

Let’s say you’re in Sydney, Australia you wanted to set up a telephone or Skype meeting with me in say Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, you would have to pick a time, say 10am, and then mention whether it is 10am “your time” or 10am “my time”. If you decide it is 10am your time, you would have to calculate what the time will be for me in Atlanta and then communicate this to me. In order to do so, you’ll have to figure out what American time zone Atlanta falls under – U.S. Eastern, Central, Mountain or Pacific Standard times. Then you’d have to make sure that we’re not in daylight-saving part of the year, and what the correct time will be.

Nightmare, I know!

Now imagine you were setting up a conference call with 5 people from 5 different cities across the globe.

Mega-nightmare, I know.

Isn’t it high ‘time’ we started to use a new system of time? Something more universal perhaps.

Well, as I said, it exists, and I’m surprised more of the world isn’t using it yet. I’m talking about Swatch internet time. With this system, there in no need for time zone conversions – because Internet Time is the same everywhere!

Instead of dividing the day into 24 hours and 60 minutes per hour, the Internet Time system divides the day into 1000 “beats”. And the distinctive aspect of Swatch Internet Time is its notation -  @248 would indicate a time 248 beats after midnight.

And off course the absolute genius and beauty of this time is: when it is @681 in Sydney Australia, it is exactly @681 in Atlanta, Georgia, and in fact @681 on every place on earth.

So if you’re setting up a virtual meeting with a friend in Rome,  Helsinki or Chennai, you can simply agree to meet at an “@ time”.

Problem solved!

Now there are certain logistic considerations when moving from our old system of time to this new system, and it will be best for a while to have both time systems displayed side by side. You will find a time converter on the swatch website here, or if you use a RSS reader like iGoogle, you can get a ‘gadget’ for it here,

I’m still on the lookout for software that can display swatch time on the task bar or in its own floating window, and for different ways to use and share this system. If you want to collaborate on how we can encourage more people to use this system, just leave a comment below, and I’ll get in touch.

If I take a while to reply, it’s because I generally check mail only between @375 and @750.

Have you noticed over the last few years that there are more and more inventions aimed at self development and life enhancement actually claiming to bring us spiritual growth and happiness, and even greater enlightenment?

This off course raises the question: is it possible that a machine can actually aid in our peace, happiness or enlightenment? The answer lies in understanding what technology really is, in the greater scheme of things.

If you think about it, technology has been with us for millennia already. When caveman drew figures on the rock as a means to visualize a successful hunt, he created and used a technology. It progressed from there to spears and hunting tools, to shovels and farming tools.
Somewhere along the line we had the abacus and ships, telescopes, wagons, pens, cars, and airplanes. Then we had all manner of manufacturing machines, even calculating machines, which led eventually to the mighty computer. This set the scene for us to get finer and more subtle in our technology – with the advent of software. With new software and hardware technology being released every month, who knows where it will take us next?

Because most of our technology currently takes the form of metal, plastic, glass or liquid crystal – mostly inanimate objects, we see them as something that is essentially separate from who we are, and certainly separate from the spiritual world.

Probably still the dominant belief amongst us, although fast changing, is that we are not as spiritual as God is. We believe that God is Spirit, and all of nature is directly connected with God – the heavenly bodies, trees, rivers and birds. We would thus readily use natural objects – fruit and leaves etc in any spiritual ceremony.

When it come to our own relation to the world of spirit, humans have over many millennia, engaged consciously or unconsciously in the ideas pertaining to who we are, what life is, who God is, and what this ‘whole big story’ is about. Collectively, over time, we’ve come to believe that we are removed from the spiritual world – separate from each other, separate from life, and separate from God. This is a mistaken belief, which does not even stand the test of clear reasoning, but from this we have inferred that anything we create must necessarily be even further removed from spirit.

In fact, if you take the view that we are separate from God, and that our inventions and technology are also separate, then you would conclude that God cannot make computers and man can!! Hence your next conclusion may be that humans are more powerful than God!! Closer to the truth is that God can make computers, and did – through us.

Humans are not separate from the divine creative force, but are beautiful extensions of it. And we reflect the creative nature of the universe in our lives and creations. As above, so below. So too with spears, cars, violins, airplanes, computers and i-pods – they are all extensions of who we are, and they can serve to enhance our abilities.

So, can a machine actually aid in our spiritual growth, happiness or enlightenment? Well it is helpful to remember that you cannot produce enlightenment, peace or self realization. You can only remove the blockages to it. Blockages can take the form of mental blocks (ideas), emotional and energetic blockages, or physical blockages. And this is where technology can certainly help, whether it takes the form of surgery or medicine, massage or magnetic plates; movies or mediation music, light or color therapy; biofeedback or brainwave entrainment.

I think it’s a blessing to have such an abundance of well-honed technology that can help us reach greater states of being with relative ease. And it’s certainly an exciting time to witness our ingenious species create subtler, even more intelligent technology which can produce enormous change in the nature of our experience on the planet, possibly reaching all the way into the subtler, heavenly realms! Perhaps the more important question of the day is not whether technology can help spiritual progress, but whether we will we see it and embrace it for what it is?

Will you?