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Pierz Newton-John

Pierz Newton-John

The Enlightened Plumber: Grounding the Spiritual

An aeon ago, at the start of my adult life, I dropped out of a science-law degree and entered a tumultuous period of spiritual seeking.

7 min read1 day ago

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The Enlightened Plumber: Grounding the Spiritual

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Tender or Tough: Revisiting an Old Dichotomy in the Age of Polarisation

The great American psychologist and philosopher William James, in his 1907 book Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking…

8 min read6 days ago

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Tender or Tough: Revisiting an Old Dichotomy in the Age of Polarisation

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Something for Nothing

There was a time when I was about nineteen or twenty when my older brother Jeremy and I became close again after years of…

7 min readMay 24, 2024

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Something for Nothing

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How Long Will the Human Race Last? Reframing the Doomsday Argument

There’s a strange argument in philosophy called the Doomsday Argument. It attempts make a probabilistic prediction of the total number of…

5 min readMay 22, 2024

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How Long Will the Human Race Last? Reframing the Doomsday Argument

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Is There Only One Mind in the Universe?

When René Descartes, in an attempt to establish a solid foundation for knowledge, meditated on what it is possible to doubt, he famously…

7 min readMay 16, 2024

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Is There Only One Mind in the Universe?

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What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? An Answer.

The Zen koan which asks, “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” has become a cliche. For most people it is just a piece of Eastern…

9 min readMay 12, 2024

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The Day I Spoke to a Child Killer: What I Learned About Evil Working in the Australian Prison…

Human evil is a subject of eternal fascination. True crime remains among the most popular of genres, and our entertainment is full of…

8 min readMay 9, 2024

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The Day I Spoke to a Child Killer: What I Learned About Evil Working in the Australian Prison…

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No, we’re not living in a simulation. Here’s why.

The idea that we might be living inside the simulation of some more advanced future civilisation sounds like something a stoner might dream…

11 min readApr 20, 2024

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The Philosophical Gardener

Or, the lessons of dirt

12 min readJul 24, 2023

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The Philosophical Gardener

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Grow up, Elon Musk: our future is not in space

One of my first memories is of the night when my parents woke me and my brother up to watch the moon landing. I remember the air of…

7 min readMay 21, 2022

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Grow up, Elon Musk: our future is not in space

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Pierz Newton-John

Pierz Newton-John

Writer, software developer, former psychotherapist, founding member of The School Of Life Melbourne. Essayist for Dumbo Feather magazine, author of Fault Lines.

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