Process and Personality Fixation (A re-write of what was first issued in September 2008) I’ve been inside the Enneagram (roughly) for twenty years on and off. As I think we’ve discovered it works—never mind the how? and the why? of it—it’s a model that just seems to make sense experientially. Going along with the NLP […]
The Right Work of Centres (Reprint from February 2008) In February 2008, I was in correspondence with a person who is in 4th Way Studies in Holland who said that she was in a bit of state because she was overwhelmed by having to write so many papers for her degree—Political Philosophy. I more […]
In the rush of everyday life we forget ourselves; we forget who we are; on waking in the morning we get into the habitual comfortable position that we adopt towards what we anticipate are going to be the events of the day and promptly fall asleep into them as we identify with all the outstanding […]
I’m no brain-surgeon either. Or a spaceman. How many other things are you not? That’s a diversion that could take us days, weeks, months, years to unpack—the uncharted waters of non-being. Not such a short short story… What I came here to say this morning is that I’m no ornithologist. I can easily recognise a […]
as when you might read some adventure story for the sake of the plot or watch telly because there’s nothing else to do and you know that consciousness becomes flat like a bottle of lemonade left open for a day but oh the hissing champagne-quality of consciousness when you are excited by ideas or moved […]
to weigh an anchor was once a matter of pushing a capstan & singing a song while on top of it sat a man playing the fiddle or the flute or some other instrument of music you & I have seen it in pictures; our sons will say that they wish they had seen it […]
The question is: How do we really enter into another person’s position, child, parent, work colleague, friend in need, being able to set aside the contamination that comes from our mechanical reliance on our own point of view? …When you really remember yourself you understand that others are machines just like you are. And you […]
Flow A couple of weeks ago I delivered a sort of entertainment to the British Haiku Society’s AGM Festival in which I argued that writing haiku was akin to ‘taking your mind for a walk’ in much the same way as Paul Klee advocated ‘taking your pencil for a walk’ in order to make drawings. […]
As it’s currently organised Capitalism is failing humanity… It does not have to be like that… I was on a train the other day reading an old book published in 1913 (@ 1/- net—a shilling in proper money—5p to younger UK readers—1/5th of a dollar exchange in 1950) that’s been in my library waiting to […]
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