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The Undefined Stage of Life

So what do we do at this un-named stage of life? Slow down? Count our life’s earnings? Try to stay young, cool and relevant in a youth-orien

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Time for a Revolution
… or a retirement home?

Adam Duncan

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Time for a Revolution … or a retirement home?

Keep proving that you can do the same things as young people and you’ll be alright.

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Adam Duncan

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When all else fails, write a book

I started writing random ideas without thinking about an end product. There were no crossings out. No editing.

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Adam Duncan

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AGEING - A Blessing or a Curse?

Everyone wants to live a long life but no one wants to get any older

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Adam Duncan

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Escaping the Web of Habitual Behaviour

However, my behaviour did not match my intentions. I found myself acting more from habit than from conscious intention. The news, the gossip

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Adam Duncan

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What Connects These People?

You may have more power over where and when you die than you realise. Death has become increasingly medicalised and professionalised but you

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Adam Duncan

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The Death of the Baby-boomers

Some of us have already died. Some of us are still doing marathons. Most of us are struggling with the ups and downs of life and getting ...

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Adam Duncan

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Living it Large for Baby-Boomers

I don't have the money and I don't want to go on a cruise anyway. So where is the stuff that might serve me in the latter half of my life?

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Adam Duncan

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Where there's death, there's life.

sat down and as I ate my sandwich I looked around the canteen and what I saw was quite shocking. The awful reality of our consumer culture

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Adam Duncan

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Ageing, Clutter and Letting Go

I'm using William Morris' instruction; "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"

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Adam Duncan

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After 50 years, we're into extra time!

We're living longer but are we living happier? This extra time we have to live can be both a blessing and a curse.

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Adam Duncan

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Dark Night of the Soul in your 50's?

But in my 60's a miracle happened. I realised that those dark nights of the soul had a purpose. Those agonies had forced a shift in conscio

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The Great Mystery ... and my part in it.

Adam Duncan

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The Great Mystery ... and my part in it.

It’s the same with astronomers and theoretical cosmologists. The more they probe into black holes and the outer reaches of the universe the

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Adam Duncan

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Inter-dependent living.

My ego was on the loose! I was a cocky, arrogant fella who was hiding all kinds of pain.

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Adam Duncan

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Life, Death and Genetic Error.

Once I accepted that my death is a part of life and not a genetic error, I experienced a sense of freedom and joy in a way that I hadn’t bef

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Adam Duncan

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Ageing and the Baby-boomers

It is not so much about living longer and staying fitter, it's about discovering our deep, innate potential in this part of our lives.

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Adam Duncan

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What is Eldering?

In contemporary society we have no elders in the traditional sense. Our link to the ancestors and their wisdom has been broken. Our tribe ha

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