Welcome to our first wordbotherer magazine – ‘Inception’.We hope you enjoy our collection of eclectic stories, musings and poems.Please contact us at wordbotherers@gmail.com to provide feedback or if you are interested in any of our work for ongoing creativity.This magazine…
Whilst ‘The Wheel of Sharp Weapons’ might be considered a fairly ‘advanced’ Buddhist scripture, its message is both logical and fairly simple. Let me try to outline its important points as I feel it might offer a valuable perspective on…
Cling not to the debris that is washed by the wave, For this is dead and detached. That which is pushed upward to crest and then splash, Is product and empty, and gone. Seek refuge in depth and find pressure…
Nigredo is the first stage of the transmutation of the philosophers stone.It really isn’t that complicated, yet it takes great suffering, courage, and a profound realisation to get to this stage.Let’s explore this alchemical process which is often represented symbolically…
My Master tells me to look. Look more. Look again. I look. I look with my eyes, then with my mind. I keep looking. I imagine looking at bits and bits of bits. I see their bits. I run out…
Alone with my thoughts. My master says to simply sit, and watch my thoughts. Shadowy monsters cruise the depths. Indistinct, more felt than seen. Their presence driving sleeker juveniles to break forth as worries and concerns. Unsure and uncertain about…
I have been teaching my step daughter to read. It is an education for both of us. I started with the signs we see on familiar routes. Open. Closed. For Sale. Sold. Oblivious at first, she cannot see what I…
Addiction: The Way In, The Way Out by Dr. Simon Robinson offers a compelling and introspective look at the roots of addiction, exploring its deep psychological, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. In this book, Robinson moves beyond the traditional views of…
Anxiety: The Way In. The Way Out. Revised Edition (2025) “I recognise a cold safety in thinking too much. It protects, but it isolates, like sleeping inside armour that never quite comes off.” We are often taught to treat anxiety…
Depression: The Way In. The Way Out. Revised Edition (2025) “The darkness didn’t vanish; it became acknowledged, and that changed its weight.” Depression is often treated as a silence to be broken or a problem to be solved. But in…