Allow me to present to you Chuck Feeney, another inspiration in the field of non-attachment. One of the themes behind this Blog is the F.I.R.E. movement, which essentially boils down to the idea that any one can actually have more freedom if one is willing to spend drastically less than one earns. Mr Feeney apparently lived this idea well before it became the subject of so many blogs… before there were blogs… or the internet for that matter…

Let me tell you about an English performance artist, Michael Landy. I was interested in the idea of “non-attachment” so I read (most of) Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley — especially because Ends and Means was cited as a source of inspiration for one of my favourite modern Christian Mystics, Thomas Merton. In Ends and Means Huxley surmises on the ideal society, and as its basis, the ideal person. Huxley frequently returns to the idea of non-attachment…