Beginnings

Perhaps like many people, I have always felt a sense of the spiritual in my life. I have always, deep down, been convinced that there is something more to life; that there are ultimate and truthful answers to some very big questions.

I have tried numerous different philosophies and religions in pursuit of these answers: from an atheistic philosophy based on the simple enjoyment of life (to be found, at least in my reading, in the works of the thinker Albert Camus) through buddhism, hinduism and even satanism. In seeking to understand each of these ways of thinking about the world, I feel as if I have gathered many different insights and elements which might come together to provide some answers.

I hope to chronicle my journey towards those answers in this blog. It may not be very enlightening, either for me or for anyone who chooses to read it, but I'm secretly hoping that by putting my thoughts and ideas into written form, I can arrive at something which will give me a coherent picture of the world.

By publishing my thoughts in a blog, I would like to invite whoever may be out there and inclined to read this to comment on my thoughts: my hope is that there may be someone reading this who feels they have the answers to some of the questions I ask or may simply be seeking to answer the same questions and have a different "take" to the one I've presented. Whoever you are, whatever your views, please feel free to share them here with me and I hope that together we can move towards an enlightened understanding of the world.