Jim's Secret Thoughts

I have just watched the Avatar movie and really enjoyed it. In spite of the typical American heavy handed approach to “destroy and take” I believe the writer of the story has presented us with a very clear message.
The native Na’vi of the fictional planet, Pandora, are depicted as having a very close bond with [...]

Who murdered Meredith Kercher? This may seem a strange topic for this blog, but this is not so much about the trial and verdicts as about finding out the truth. As in any public tragedy the public want to know the truth. And giving a guilty verdict, although pleasing to the victim’s family, is not always [...]

I want inspiration. I need answers. I want to know the right thing to do. Have you had these and similar questions going through your head? You analyse, you look at the pros and cons, you search for ideas and evidence, yet you still can’t make up your mind if the particular move you have [...]

Have you ever felt like you don’t belong, you don’t fit in? Does your life constantly bang against the wall of conformity and crash against the common perception of life? This is what the authors of Wings of Change, Jim and Katharina Murdoch, were facing when their lives were turned upside down by unexpected events. [...]

In the movie The Matrix, Neo is faced with the truth that the world as he knew it did not exist, but was a virtual reality created by machines to fool the human populace that their world is real and physical. Once Neo had grasped this truth he was able to eventually master the virtual [...]

A Paradigm is a mind-set, or mind pattern, or a set of ideas. For example, a long time ago it was a paradigm that the Earth was flat. That paradigm has changed. Another paradigm could be, “I can never be an artist,” or whatever. This paradigm also can be changed.
Paradigms determine how we think and [...]

I’ve been busy lately with my wife writing our book and haven’t had much time for writing here. So I thought why not add some of the thoughts from our upcoming book. We have just completed the outline on a chapter dealing with intuition. This is a much ignored faculty of the mind and yet [...]