Jeff is a songwriter, guitar player and singer. An impressive achievement is writing a song for Slim Dusty's historic 'Looking Forward, Looking Back' CD. The Song was 'Memories and Dreams' co-written with Michael Fix. The song received much attention and was re-released by Cat Southern in 2006 and was nominated in the People's Choice awards for best heritage song in Tamworth, 2007.

Religion as Technology: Buddhists tell an interesting parable. One needs a raft to cross a river, but once the river is crossed there is no further need to carry the raft.

Religions of all kinds are technologies we use to gain experience of altered states and ecstacies. These altered states are 'natural' parts of the human experience but often seem diificult or out of reach for many of us. Many of us desire the experience of fundamental unity of all things and compassion for all. Religious technology is that which some have found useful in gaining access to these experiences. Theologian Matthew Fox calls them 'tactical ecstacies'.

However, when we have gained these experiences and to some extent made them p...

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