I woke this morning (15th April 2022) to the sound of all the chaffinches in the world exchanging pleasantries across the dyke, over the fields and through the forest, and it occurred to me that a model I’ve used to inform my own life would work very well as a way of thinking about Jefferies, […]
‘I believe I’m on a train going to Colchester…’ At the time of writing with a fountain pen that certainly was the case: I could feel the train wheels doing just what they were supposed to do and I felt the periodic jolts, slowings down and gettings faster. But to use the words ‘I believed […]
As a theme for presenting a keynote address to a local poetry group this summer I chose to look back over sixty years of my own making of poems. The result was something like what follows and the presentation of a small book of Selected Poems which is available free to anybody who might choose […]
So often one hears, “I can’t draw…” “I can’t write…” “I can’t figure this out…” Many adherents of the Gurdjieff canon have a general belief that human beings are simply unable to DO anything because there’s a belief that we are asleep, not in control of our lives. Certainly any attempt to DO is futile […]
We are not born ‘free’ to think anything we like; there’s a brain-scrubbing process that starts the moment we are born; well-meaning parents induct us into their thinking about how things should be; they have already been inducted by their education, by their ‘politico-religious’ indoctrination. The pressure is on. How is it that some people […]
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 […]
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