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Intuition

Posted on March 4, 2022 by garylongden

Intuition involves a paradox. We all make judgements on the basis of available information. Bad judgements may result from flawed information and, or, inadequate or incomplete experience. Our judgement leads us to believe that a sequence of events that happened … Continue reading →

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Heroes of Spiritualism

Posted on March 4, 2022 by garylongden

Whatever happened to the heroes Plato Swedenborg Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan (25 November 1897 – 6 December 1956) was a Scottish medium best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act 1735 for fraudulent claims. She … Continue reading →

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George Heath

Posted on March 4, 2022 by garylongden

George Heath George Heath was born in Gratton near Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands, following his education in the village school he worked on his Father’s Farm and later was apprenticed as a builder. It was around this time that … Continue reading →

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Serendipity

Posted on September 1, 2021 by garylongden

I struggle with contemporary war poetry. It either seems like imagined images from a distance, or trite nonsense. Jack Henry, the American Poet, has written the best contemporary war poem I have read for some time: a short Vietnamese lady … Continue reading →

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Sacred Sites Tarot Cards – Barbara Micklejohn Free and Flavia Kate Peters

Posted on June 30, 2020 by garylongden

  I read Past Lives Tarot cards. My own deck was created by Doreen Virtue and Brian Weiss. I read them intuitively. They have no specific independent meaning. They are simply a bridge between myself and the client. I have … Continue reading →

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The National Front – My Part in Their Downfall

Posted on April 26, 2020 by garylongden

Leeds. 1979. Socially things were grim. The city was rough, tough, but unbowed, following the miners strike of ’72. The football team (Super) Leeds United was in decline, their hooligan firm, The Service Crew, were in their ascendancy. Musically, Leeds … Continue reading →

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My Favourite Musicals

Posted on April 4, 2020 by garylongden

I am fortunate to review theatre professionally. That means that I often see shows that I would not normally have bought a ticket for, and miss shows that I would have liked to have seen because of clashing dates. Here … Continue reading →

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Ben Kane – Eagles in the Storm, Novel Review

Posted on March 12, 2020 by garylongden

My first foray into Kane’s writing had been with “Clash of the Titans” it had been disappointing, with Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell easily better writers and storytellers on that evidence. But I decided to give him another chance. I … Continue reading →

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Clash of Empires- Ben Kane. Novel review

Posted on March 11, 2020 by garylongden

  This was my first introduction to Kane’s work I was disappointed. It was swamped by too much unnecessary detail, diluted by multiple sub plots which either went nowhere or added little, and was careless with character. In one strand … Continue reading →

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Traitors of Rome – Simon Scarrow, Novel Review

Posted on March 11, 2020 by garylongden

  The eighteenth instalment of the “Eagles of the Empire” series takes our leading protagonists to the Eastern edge of the Roman Empire, Parthia, for their latest adventure. Aficionados, of which I am one, will find it fits like a … Continue reading →

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