In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.