Well, well, well. There's another blog called 'Adventures close to home', and it's an MP3 blog, and some of those MP3s are kinda good.
Happy to share the name, hello bro!
I think I exceeded my bandwidth, so the blog has not been available for the last few days. Consider this a test.
My, my, that Firefox spellchecker is the real deal!
My, my, that Firefox spellchecker is the real deal!
Life seems very busy at the 'mo, especially at work where I've just finished putting together a 'writing for the web' course and then giving two sessions of training to staff. Wow, training is tiring work, fun but tiring.
I really need to get my sitting practice back together again, it really fell apart after my June retreat and I've not managed to get it sorted again...
Also, feel the need to do something with my body, start running again or a class in Aikido, perhaps there's something I can do in Cambridge?
Still working my way through KW's new book which is inspiring and baffling in equal measures. KW is one of those writers you can go back to a year later and get something completely new from, so I'm not worry about the sections of the book that fly past me.
Off to Bristol this weekend to see Myriam and Brendan. The last time I went to Bristol was to see Fugazi back in the late 80s, and what a fine gig that was!
I really need to get my sitting practice back together again, it really fell apart after my June retreat and I've not managed to get it sorted again...
Also, feel the need to do something with my body, start running again or a class in Aikido, perhaps there's something I can do in Cambridge?
Still working my way through KW's new book which is inspiring and baffling in equal measures. KW is one of those writers you can go back to a year later and get something completely new from, so I'm not worry about the sections of the book that fly past me.
Off to Bristol this weekend to see Myriam and Brendan. The last time I went to Bristol was to see Fugazi back in the late 80s, and what a fine gig that was!
Returning home from London to Ely on the commuter train this evening and it’s great hearing the Viking Youth boys back from Burning Man. And they are talking to Erik Davis and it’s all this wild California grand mystic madness and then onto Philip K Dick, then Burning Man itself and everything in general…psychedelic consciousness in particular.
And I’m listening to all this on my mp3 machine, chuckling way amongst my commuter colleagues and then on the way home, same mp3 machine switches itself over to ‘In and Out of Grace’ by Mudhoney and I’m swept away into this trance-like state of unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll bliss, it’s that red VMeme swinging its hips and grinding down like a young Elvis on the stage in Memphis, or something.
Anyway, I’m walking home with this Mudhoney track, in this kind of trance and somewhere slightly distance from ‘me’ this voice perks up and says ‘oh I hope we don’t meet any Mr/Mrs neighbour right now, cos we are all psyched up and it reminds me of tripping with those mushrooms all that time ago’ and I’m half aware of my trance and half aware of not meeting Mr/Mrs neighbour.
And it’s fine because the sun is setting over the Fens and I round the corner into the home straight and Mudhoney fade away, leaving only the teenagers on the side of the road watching me fumble for my keys.
And I’m listening to all this on my mp3 machine, chuckling way amongst my commuter colleagues and then on the way home, same mp3 machine switches itself over to ‘In and Out of Grace’ by Mudhoney and I’m swept away into this trance-like state of unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll bliss, it’s that red VMeme swinging its hips and grinding down like a young Elvis on the stage in Memphis, or something.
Anyway, I’m walking home with this Mudhoney track, in this kind of trance and somewhere slightly distance from ‘me’ this voice perks up and says ‘oh I hope we don’t meet any Mr/Mrs neighbour right now, cos we are all psyched up and it reminds me of tripping with those mushrooms all that time ago’ and I’m half aware of my trance and half aware of not meeting Mr/Mrs neighbour.
And it’s fine because the sun is setting over the Fens and I round the corner into the home straight and Mudhoney fade away, leaving only the teenagers on the side of the road watching me fumble for my keys.
I'm reading Ken Wilber's new book Integral Spirituality. As usual with KW, it's a challenge, full of ideas both thrilling and (at times) incomprehensible. And yet my experience with his other work is to use whatever is understood not fret to much about what is not.
KW is one of those authors I can go back to again and again, understanding a bit more each time. It's great stuff, I highly recommend diving in.
KW is one of those authors I can go back to again and again, understanding a bit more each time. It's great stuff, I highly recommend diving in.
Zac from Alchemically Braindamaged has started a new series of podcasts ("Systematic for the People 1") based on intentional spiritual practice, very highly recommended. The style is urgent, serious and confrontational, just what we need in times such as these.
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