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Sydney Morning Herald Column
Encounters
Thursday, February 11th, 2016 Sydney Morning Herald Column,‘Civilisation’ is a concept that has changed beyond recognition over the past century. To the pioneering ethnographers of the Victorian era, tribal cultures were merely stages on the way to the civilised state. Viewed as backward, impoverished and superstitious, it was accepted that such communities would wither and die as they fell under the spell […]
Sydney Morning Herald Column
Tim Johnson
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald Column,Tim Johnson once had a vision of the Buddha in his kitchen in Newtown. “The moment after I saw it,” he told an interviewer in 1991, “it somehow took over my thoughts, said ‘Don’t be afraid’, and floated towards me very quickly, merged into my body, and then said ‘I’ll always be here.’” Neither is […]