What’s The Witness Space about?

There’s a growing interest in spiritual topics, but they’re not taken seriously by the media and are usually relegated to magazines carrying stories about crop circles and alien abductions. There’s room, though, for journalism which looks at the intersection of science and spirituality, both powerful tools for knowledge. That covers the ways in which topics once seen as esoteric - meditation, yoga, consciousness - are being studied.

I’ve been a journalist for three decades, and bring that experience to topics I don’t claim to be an expert on, but am fascinated about. I’ve long felt there was more to reality than the visible world, and this substack is a way of investigating further. Working hypothesis: consciousness is a fundamental force of nature.

As for the name, it’s a distillation of the idea that I am not my body, and I am not my mind. I am the space in which the “I am” sense of beingness and experience unfolds. (It’s easier to meditate about than explain.)

This online witness space hosts the stories: one monthly feature, and shorter weekly stories.

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