Talking in the head. The things we say to our many selves… The things our many ‘I’s gang up on us to say inside our head, behind our back—what’s called Internal Considering in The Fourth Way. From time to time I find it useful to consult the following list, which I have concocted for myself over […]
Last night, having just finished reading a book that took me quite a long time to read & digest, I pulled a book off the shelves of my library that I knew would be a quick read by contrast. I read it some time ago; I like its style and the style of its companion […]
While reading the prose of some writers, poems seem to leap off the page at you… Hilaire Belloc is one such great writer that does it for me… *** humankind will have pomp & mystery to surround seemingly important things; therefore the historians must (consciously or not) tend to strut to quote solemn authorities in […]
Think for a moment about these words: ambition, anger, fear, love, excitement, enthusiasm, energy, intention, attitude, consolation, desire… Those will do for a start. What do they have in common? Yes, they’re all words that have the appearance at least of referring to things that are supposed to go on in the inner workings of […]
Preamble About thirty years ago I became stuck in this double-bind: while I was spending time reading I had the feeling that I was wasting time when I could have been writing; while I was focussed on writing I developed the trance of feeling that writing was getting in the way of reading. When you’re […]
A few days ago I heard myself making the rather rash statement that if I had done anything right as a parent umpteen years ago it was to help create the conditions for my children to be able to choose to be open-minded. I wonder if they’d accept that they were offered such a choice… […]
somehow nature performs an alchemical feat— it has genes to support this fragile structure of unique experience—emergent property of DNA; it’s the senseless universe’s way of becoming conscious of itself: our eyes exist to help the universe to see just what it looks like in moonlight & in high summer; our ears help it to […]
Recent sample of my home-spun music This was written for the opening of Colchester’s brilliant new cultural centre First Site. It was a brass quintet of the first order!
I often find myself dipping into Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men or watching the brilliant film with Alf Garnett playing the part of Gurdjieff’s dad. Then I start to think about how to make an answer to the question What is a Remarkable Person? And what is it that counts as a meeting with them? […]
Life is an accident waiting to happen; it happens in the only way it can otherwise it would be different… (From My Notebook—13th November 2011) It seems, it feels, as though, in this time long before sunrise, that I am the only person in the universe who might respond to a sentence in Gabriel Garcia […]
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