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Jan 04 2012

Video: Food & Multiple Sclerosis

Tag: Human Condition,Persephone's Updates,VideosPersephone Arbour @ 8:54 pm

This came into my mail box, just after I had sent my N’Year news letter. I just HAD to post it. My dear Jack (a biologist of some repute) was sitting next to me as we watched and listened. We were both chastened and dumbstruck! Have you ever heard any one reversing their Multiple Sclerosis? [...]

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Dec 29 2011

Guest post: reply to my Avaaz request by James Bonser

Tag: Guest Posts,Human ConditionPersephone Arbour @ 6:35 pm

Thank you for the heads up but I have already committed my own and Ingrid’s name, not only to this particular crisis, but to almost everything since you first sent out an email, bringing my attention to the Avaaz Organisation. I’ve always seen myself as non-political, so it has come as a bit of a [...]

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Nov 02 2011

Video: Charlie Chaplin: The Greatest Speech Ever Made

Tag: VideosPersephone Arbour @ 4:01 pm

Forget the comedian and listen to the man . . . .

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Oct 31 2011

Video: Bunker Roy & Barefoot College, Rajasthan

Tag: VideosPersephone Arbour @ 4:52 pm

Bunker Roy is a rare man, his quiet sense of humour, keen intelligence and determination have worked miracles. As he says, Barefoot College is “a place of learning and unlearning: where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.” Please watch this and think on’t! For me, this talk was inspirational.

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Oct 23 2011

Guest post: How to Reverse the West’s Decline by Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks

Tag: Guest Posts,Persephone's UpdatesPersephone Arbour @ 2:23 pm

This is an unusually long and profound article, triggered by the ever-present memories of 9/11. I thought of editing it, but felt that would have been arrogant and disrespectful towards its wise author. It’s well worth the long read. It is not clear that the West has successfully met the challenge of 9/11. Worse: it [...]

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Oct 23 2011

Poem: Having Come This Far by James Broughton

Tag: Persephone's Updates,PoemsPersephone Arbour @ 2:08 pm

I simply loved this poem – it fitted my life exactly! I hope you enjoy it too. I’ve been through what my through was to be I did what I could and couldn’t I was never sure how I would get there I nourished an ardor for thresholds for stepping stones and for ladders I [...]

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Oct 18 2011

An abject apology . . .from Persephone

Tag: Persephone's UpdatesPersephone Arbour @ 9:48 pm

Please read the letter below, received about ten minutes ago! “Hello Persephone, I’m sorry but I can’t wait any longer, I fully subscribe to the fact that silence is as good as the spoken word, but this has gone beyond all reasonable time frames. Love maybe in the air but that’s about all that is [...]

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Oct 18 2011

My Munich Experience by Persephone

Tag: Articles,Human Condition,Persephone's UpdatesPersephone Arbour @ 9:03 pm

Starting to write this, I am sitting in a beautiful, clear room with a view of the Alps in the distance, revelling in the quiet beauty all around me. I was invited to give a talk on Conscious Aging in Munich on 27th September. Blessedly this has included a visit to a close friend’s mountain [...]

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Jul 30 2011

Amazing instrument – true or false?

Tag: VideosPersephone Arbour @ 10:31 am

A fascinating display of musical wizardry?

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Jul 29 2011

Guest post: The Past Is a Foreign Country By Jo Nesbo – from Norway

I could not let this issue go without some mention of the tragedy that unfolded in front of our eyes in Norway. It came in the form of this brilliant and poignant article, first published in the NYTimes: July 26, 2011. ’nuff said really. A FEW days ago, before the bombing here and the shootings [...]

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