What is it that informs the decisions you make, the reactions you have to your experiences? How do you store the events of your life so that you can create patterns of meaning and begin to learn from them? What is it that creates your internal guide for a coordinated system of responses to people […]
I was fiddling around with the structure of an exercise to do with getting rid of Negative Emotion—the kind of thing that gets in the way of what we want to achieve. Doesn’t happen very often, of course, but it can be pretty debilitating when it does. It could be adapted to help people cope […]
An extract from ROOM FOUR referring to Logical Levels… Combologue 4 There’s a model of analysis that covers the whole of human life in a sequence known as ‘Logical Levels’; the idea in its current form seems to have emanated from Gregory Bateson: we exist in an ENVIRONMENT where we DO various things knowing full […]
I approach 50 entries in this WordPress thing since September 2011 and I’m still asking the question, ‘What am I doing here?’ I wrote down what I thought I was doing and the result was the following diagram. It may help to suggest the range of approaches any human-being can adopt towards Life. It’s suggestive […]
a crow appears to be a peacock a trough of water an inland sea harsh clattering masquerades as music enmity as goodwill insults as loving kindness the demolition of welfare as a caring Big Society and so on and so forth when the chewing of poppy-seeds was forbidden with relentless severity the incidence of chewing […]
what lesson are you playing truant from now? she asks—with your ever-present air of intense superiority— not truancy—he says—but in contemplating the exquisite atmosphere in your tale I am defeated for want of a key— across my vision (there it is again) silhouetted against the blue of the sparkling sea a warm caress… but I […]
Current Tweetable Sound-bite: The Brain begins to decline at 40 Actually the brain begins to decline at birth: neurons start dying as soon as we are born but since there are around 15 million of them at the last count I made it doesn’t really matter for a very long time; unchecked and with the […]
once again I find myself wearily pointing it out (so often in the company of those consumed by the Modern Way into flogging themselves silly for seventy hours a week to line other people’s pockets) that the Ancient Greek root of the word ‘school’ means ‘leisure’— the opportunity to sit around making a slow sense […]
The Enneagram In the gigantic system of systems known as the Enneagram which depicts nine basic personality types and countless sub-types which I prefer to call ‘fixations’ since what is fixated can always be unfixed—which is the object of the system’s dynamic—I settle for the time being on defining myself as a ‘hoarder’; of musical […]
In relation to the Figure of Eight (see 30th November 2011) it might be wondered how we are to keep ourselves at the fertile point of stasis at the centre of the Figure? The place where maximum energy is accumulated… Where self-remembering is at its most intense… What is there in us that is almost […]
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