Mahatma Gandhi said, 'Be the change you want to see in the world'. With these words, I welcome you to my website where planting golden seeds is my business. Be amazed, delighted, entertained, and never disappointed. You may even be informed.
The following page titles have been selected at random from the side menu to give you something of the flavour of a site which has been four years in the making and, like the NHS, free at the point of contact.
Clicking on PUBLISHING will take you to COALMINING and to a unique collection of jokes in PIT TALK. The jokes are in the old Durham dialect and, like the stories, are the result of research by the late Laurie Moran, a Durham miner. Click here for a tour of Durham City.
Please remember, the ultimate aim is the planting of golden seeds. This is something open to all of us - tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief.
'A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.'
- Mahatma Gandhi
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT (2)
Thinking allowed - evolution not revolution.
Re-Establishing Altruism As A Viable Social Norm.
Revolution is defined as 'forcible overthrow of a government or social order'. Altruism is not about forcing anyone to do anything. If it replaces capitalism, it will be because of a lot of small changes, not a few big ones. Those changes will be individual changes of heart and mind, as people make personal transitions into worlds of abundance, not scarcity and a concerted effort to take more and more of their actions out of love, not fear.
The capitalist system certainly has many unwanted consequences for both human society and the natural environment. However it is the system that puts food on many people's plates. Anti-capitalism is a protest movement, not a philosophy in itself - people will not give up capitalism until they can see a better system. People who perceive a world of scarcity, not of abundance will consider talk of sharing to be hopelessly naive. Until they witness others giving things away they may be slow understand that a new world is here at last. Similarly, those who have grown up in socially poor environments may be slow to understand the power of community. However, each one of us, whatever our past, can choose to transcend it and evolve to a higher plane of living and think altruistically.
Material advancement is not as important for the development of altruism as global spiritual progress. The disruption of an old-fashioned revolution hardly seems like a sensible way to bring about either of these. A better way to promote it is through a personal commitment to be a force for good, not just in our own lives, but in the lives of those around us.
People cannot be forced to love others. They will not do so until they are ready. Evolution - a gradual sequence of small changes - is a much more realistic way to arrive at an altruistic society.
Truists International Website
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT (3)
Thinking allowed - let's challenge psychiatric labelling. 
Please sign the petition below received from Dr. Rufus May on Thursday, 10 May 2012.
• It would be great if you could take the time to sign this petition against psychiatric labelling here.
• Also please join the Inquiry into Schizophrenia here, an excellent way to challenge the continued use of this unhelpful and misleading term.
Psychiatric diagnoses mystify people's problems. Instead we need to see each person as unique and understand their distress and confusion in the context of their lives and the social and emotional pressures they have faced.
We need to have social, psychological and cultural understandings given much more of a place in making sense with people about their difficulties.
I think this refusal to categorise difficulties as fixed 'conditions' will lead to a more optimistic and compassionate approach. - Dr. Rufus May.
