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Hermann Hesse’s Journey to the East: freedom, individuality or conformity?

It is surprising how many people are happy to conform today with any Government mandate, regardless of whether it is

The phrase Tat Tvam Asi comes from the ancient Indian text, Chandogya Upanishad, and means “That Thou Art”. Hermann Hesse,

Colin Wilson’s 1967 classic psychological novel The Mind Parasites remains essential reading more than fifty years on. Researchers into mind

In George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men (1927), he uses the phrase “the sleep of the mind”, asserting that

What makes a book a “good read”? An obvious answer is that it must be “readable”, and the writings of

The 2014 novel In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman explores the breakdown of a cross-cultural

Does this world offer any freedom or just servitude? Two books written almost a century ago continue to cast a

T S Eliot once wrote: “Where is the Life that we have lost in living”? Many people, in their pursuit

The 2009 film Avatar can be viewed on multiple levels. Simplistically, it can be viewed as a visually-exotic love story.

The nineteenth century British poet Percy Shelley wrote his most famous poem, Ozymandias, in 1819. The short 14-line sonnet is