ON THE DEATH OF DIANA, “QUEEN OF HEARTS”

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments ©Terry Boardman 14 September 1997 This essay first appeared in the German magazine Info3 in October 1997 Quite some time will have to go by before the British people will be able to gain some real clarity about the nature of the truly bizarre, unsettling and moving experience they went through in the week of 31st August to 6th September 1997 following the death of Diana in a car crash in a Paris...
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At the Birth and Death of a Century

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments This article first appeared in the German magazine “Info3″  April 1996 Plus ça change (plus c’est la même chose) is a French expression which we use in English (the more it changes, the more it’s the same thing). “As above, so below”, say the Hermeticists; this would appear to refer to the spatial structure of the world, but in occultism, it also refers to...
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The ‘Third Way’ of 1998 and the ‘New Politics’ of Today

Posted by on Jul 12, 2012 in threefold Society | 0 comments This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 56 July-Sept 2010 Broadly speaking, one could say that the three main historical political parties in Britain – Liberal, Conservative and Labour  – correspond to three key factors that have played a great role in British history since the seventeenth century. Respectively, these three aspects are: the Liberal concern for the...
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Saturn Returns…

Posted by on Jul 11, 2012 in miscellaneous | 0 comments © Terry Boardman This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 57 Oct-Dec 2010 “It’s useful to remember that an organism can have a future and a past only with respect to its organic present, and also that a person cannot have a future and a past unless his or her mental present is viable.” (1) Sitting in the garden gazing at the flowers, the majestic clouds of late...
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Desert Islands – The Three Historical Temptations of England and Japan

Posted by on Jul 10, 2012 in east west issues | 0 comments by Terry Boardman This essay first appeared in New View magazine Summer 2011 In my life, music has been the art that has touched me the most, and music has about it much of the element of dream in that – especially if one is not a trained musician who thinks about music in terms of scores, crotchets, quavers, minims and the aspects of musical technique etc. – one experiences music as it...
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