Encounter
12: Encountering real magic
I'm trying to find a way back to Buber, not because I've left him behind, but because I haven't made the connection explicit for a while. My intention is to cultivate the conditions that make an...
read article15: The first conversation
We had recently moved out of London in order to bring up very young children. I still had a two-hour commute to work each day. I was constantly at the behest of the clock and permanently exhausted. My...
read article17: Look at your hands
Look at your hands awhile. Turn them over and study them, their curves and lines, maybe stretch the fingers open a few times as if receiving a gift and then release them. Look now at one hand, thumb...
read article18: The quality of your desire
Summary We do or we don't want things (actual things, or relationships, or ideas). We desire them, or we avoid them or we fear them. Any which way, we are in a relationship with the thing as we see...
read article19: The ideas room
I'm tired. My list of writing ideas has been emptied out. So I sit at my desk, awaiting inspiration. It's an interesting process – it feels as if possibilities are getting edited out just before they...
read article20: Different voices of head, heart & hara
Summary The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Even so, it helps to locate and listen to the different voices within. Our different parts are intelligent in different ways and, by listening...
read article21: In the beginning was the Word ...
Summary Learn to speak from the whole of you by talking to each part in turn. Take one word Play along. Take a single word – yes or no . Go stand in front of a wall, say it out loud. In order to feel...
read article25: Writing as transmission
If you stop to think about it, writing is a torturous path for passing on knowledge. I have an experience. I reduce it down to a few distinct thoughts about that experience. I write it down,...
read article26: Grokking the world
There's a universe between what you can see and you can't see; there's a multitude of noises between what you can hear and can't hear. What's just out of sight? What's just beyond your...
read article27: The nature of meaning
That turns out to be a better title than I had intended - meaning is something we humans create to connect things not obviously connected, therefore it is a human construct. But I'm interested in...
read article28: Silencing
Last week, a meteorite smashed down on a driveway in rural England. The homeowner thought that someone had thrown a lump of coal on their tarmac. Thankfully, the news that day was full of scientists...
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