The Best is Still to Come Between 1993 and 1999 I lost count of the times I taught a three day workshop described as Stephen Covey’s ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’; I taught it so often, several times with Ed Percival and sometimes with a learning partner, that I even began to become rather […]
…it sometimes seems as if in her work a cat came at us speaking English… (Blackmur) Reality leaves a lot to the imagination… (John Lennon) I Trained to be a Teacher Between 1964 and 1968 They were great years! The first essay we had to write was to be called, without a second thought about […]
So many different parts we play in life; yet at this moment now they all become focussed in this whatever it is that I call ‘I’. The ‘I’ that takes itself forward from this moment now into whatever activity it might have planned for the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year… Different time-scales define […]
‘How foolish is that business man who does not sell out and retire to a small country cottage with his little income of a pound or twenty-five shillings a week, where he could eat, sleep and read in peace and walk abroad admiring Nature. Thousands of businessmen could do this and would if they were […]
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? […]
What’s the point of the Figure of Eight? (See 30th November 2011 and related posts…) It’s a model that sets out to depict the workings of a whole human being, from inchoate other-than-conscious psychic mechanisms operating in the dim interior through to what we might imagine to be ‘waking consciousness’; when we work our way […]
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 […]
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 […]
The dynamic concept of the Figure of Eight was introduced in my Blog ‘Somatic Markers’ dated 16th November. The bottom half of the Figure of Eight represents the ground of our being—core self—that which we can become more aware of in meditative exercises of one kind or another: the rush of blood in the ears, […]
The Figure of Eight When I first read The Feeling of Now by Antonio Damasio, working hard to understand what seemed absorbing but rather dense, I doodled a diagram in order to get things into some perspective. The basic Figure of Eight construction I started with remains, but it’s undergone several changes since I first […]
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