I started this blog in September 2009 as an outlet for my developing thoughts on topics relating to my study in Peace and Conflict Studies, and in relation to my travels across the world and through life.
Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead’s s book Adventures of Ideas, and other “process thinkers”, this blog shares an adventure with ideas – a journey through time, across countries, exploring beauty, peace, truth, paradoxes and the “random life stuff” that happens along the way. The blog explored those areas that Whitehead considered to be the five qualities of civilised society: Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, and Peace.
I found that keeping a blog was helpful for organising my thoughts and reflections, and I figure if even one person enjoys then it’s worth sharing. In some years I’ve done lots of blogging, in others less so, depending on my other projects and life happenings. If you want to know more about my eclectic life story, this short bio is a good place to start. If you want a more formal bio, my academic bio will be more helpful.
Some aspects of this blog are more of an archive of my past life chapters, for example my portfolio from a short modeling stint and photography & exhibitions. There’s a list of some sources of inspiration (links). My Academia.Edu profile contains links to my theses and some of my publications: https://sydney.academia.edu/JulietBennett/
These are some links to my own favourite posts from over the years:
- Coming to grips with the elephant in the room
- Peace: How do we find it?
- Sex or chess?
- The gap between school and real life
- Big History
- Chocolate slavery and the tragic flaw of humanity in the 21st century
- Empowering women and the role of men
- Good, bad and the thinking that makes it so
- Questioning Christianity: What makes more sense?
- Mapping out the religions
- New year new food pyramid
- Potentialism: My Philosophy of Life
You can also discover some of my adventures with ideas below…
Alan Watts Atheism Big History Bridge Series Central America Chocolate climate change Conflict Transformation Creativism Ecology Europe God Health India India/Nepal inspiration Life in Oz Life philosophy Meaning of life Modeling My Brazilian My Christian Journey Narrative Narratology Occupy optimal trajectory Panentheism peace philosophy Photography Politics population Potentialism poverty religion slavery social construction South America The Pyramid Travel United States War What is God Wikileaks Yoga
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