Ghosts and Olympian Gods
Is Your Life Journey Mapped by the Stars or Laws of the Jungle?

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Dec
01
Photo image of figure of goddess Minerva, Bath City Museum.

Olympian Goddesses and Gods. Who Did You Meet Today?

Day to day, face-to-face most people don't include God in their response to a conversation question: "Who did you meet today?" God should do interviews. Or will He let the foolish rich ruin beautiful earth?
5 min read
Nov
27
Image of horde of coins

On What Happened to the Richest Man in History

In ancient times, when people wanted to know what the Gods thought about wishes they consulted an oracle. The richest man in history, King Croesus proved answers work best if you're not stupid.
4 min read
Nov
27
Photo image of crowds of people on a road crossing.

Olympian Gods. Archetypes of the Unconscious. Or Appalled Observers in an AI Age?

Do Olympian Gods move us through the day-to-day of life? Drive our choice of cola? Is life's daily soap their eternal drama? Or are we free to "win big" or screw things up for ourselves?
6 min read
Nov
03
Photo images of Nick Hammond and Margo Williams

Assistant to a Ghost Hunter

“Want to come and release a ghost?” asked Margo Williams. Most days that’s what she did. She pulled on anorak, grabbed bag stuffed with wads of paper, pencils, sharpener and a thermos. Off out in search of the unlucky dead trapped in a haunting.
6 min read
Oct
31
Photo image of people crossing a road.

Ghosts and Olympian Gods

You are the greatest gift you get. No promises your life will be easy. Good days, bad days until your last. Then you come back and do it all again. Or you become a ghost.
6 min read
Oct
30
Photo image of St Boniface Church, Bonchurch. Isle of Wight.

Bonchurch Old Church. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

St Boniface church in Bonchurch is among the smallest in the island. A ghost sometimes is glimpsed, and more unwelcomely felt. From time to time members of the living congregation experience the presence, quite literally hands-on.
9 min read
Oct
29
Photo image of the Longstone, Mottistone, Isle of Wight.

Longstone, Mottistone. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams

The oldest human-made structure on the Isle of Wight, Mottistone's Longstone proves our belief in ghosts dates back to the Age of the Pyramids. And probably long before.
6 min read
Oct
29
Photo image of Swainston manor chapel, Swainston Isle of Wight.

Swainston Manor, Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Science's human origin story, beyond Big Bang locates us somewhere in a Black Hole in maybe a multiverse. White Holes and Wormholes exist. Surprisingly one of which can be found on the Calbourne Road to Carisbrooke.
6 min read
Oct
28
Photo mage of St. Helen's Church tower, St. Helens, Isle of Wight.

St. Helens. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Tall tales of ghosts and legends accrue like mist to this old church tower in St. Helens. A whopper of an untold story features an A-List celebrity Roman resident.
5 min read
Oct
25
Photo image of Old Post Office. Main Road, Brighstone. Isle of Wight.

The Belgae. Ghosts of the Isle of Wight, with Margo Williams.

Old maps identify an area of the island as definitively Celtic. Chances are a rich DNA vein runs through its residents to whom we owe not only our belief in ghosts, but acceptance of religion.
5 min read