The Sivananda Book of Yoga
The Sivananda Book of Yoga: this milestone guide was first published in 1983, and is no longer in print, having been supplanted by more recent versions. However, in our opinion, this version is the original and best, and remains a classic guide to Yoga to this day.The...
Fortress New Zealand
Fortress New Zealand: this book was written in 2007 by Robin Scott during his time in New Zealand (2006-11). It focuses on the emerging information at that time about global warming and climate change, and its predicted effects on New Zealand.Much of this information...
We all need to reconnect at the Heart level…
“Protect your personal freedoms by buying this T-shirt and, most importantly, wearing it in public often, please, to help get the word out: we all need to reconnect at the Heart level…”At the beginning of June, I wrote a short verse about the Coronavirus lockdown,...
Bliss lies on the other side of your Fear
People sometimes say to me about Cannabis "Oh, but it makes me paranoid, makes me anxious, gives me a panic attack" and so on. I just replied to a young friend who asked me about this: "The anxiety is already there within you; the Cannabis makes you more aware of both...
Shiva the Destroyer
Of the three great Gods of the Hindu Trinity - Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer - I am a long-time devotee of the greatest of the three: Lord Shiva.Shiva is the Supreme Destoyer of Evil. He makes the way for a new rebirth, always...
My new allotment plans
I am extremely grateful to the many good friends who expressed such warm support for my new allotment plans. I was touched and moved by the love. When I left home in my early 20s, nearly fifty years ago now, for some reason I had firmly in mind the goal of...
250,000 Jobs in the US have been created from the legal Cannabis Industry
The legal weed industry is also predicted to grow at a rate of 250 percent from 2018 until 2028, vastly exceeding the expansion rate of any other US industry.Full story and recipe in my new book The Case for Cannabis, available here. Read my book, Grow your own.
How Cannabis Coevolved With Humanity, And Could Save It
To a growing number of experts on history and biology, one forbidden species stands out as our biggest loss, and for likely being the single most useful plant that humans have ever gotten to know (which may even have made us ‘more human’). That plant, of course, is...
Being a devotee of the Hindu god – Shiva the Destroyer
I have become over the years a devotee of the Hindu god Shiva, one of the three great gods of the Hindu Trinity, along with Brahma and Vishnu – Shiva the Destroyer. This is partly because of my thirty plus years practice in the Sivananda school of Yoga, and my...
CORONAVIRUS: CONSPIRACY OR COCK-UP?
I’ve identified at least four possible explanations currently on offer as to the real causes of this surreal Coronavirus global emergency:(1) This was a naturally occurring genetic mutation originating from Chinese bats and somehow finding its way into the human...
Does Cannabis cause Paranoia?
Does Cannabis cause Paranoia? I sometimes get told by people, when I talk to them about Cannabis, ‘Oh, but it makes me paranoid’. This is something that you also see posted in the right-wing press, as an argument against Cannabis. What is the truth? The answer is: Yes...
Prayer: Communion of Souls
Prayer: Communion of SoulsIn the last few years, I have started to spend more time in prayer on a regular basis. I now spend five minutes in prayer three times a day, and find this a most worthwhile activity. This is on top of my hour of Yoga first thing each morning....