Impermanence (or 'The allure of impermanence' ?)

If 25 doctors cannot tell me my own name
Then my life might as well continue vaguely the same
I can't even work out if my decisions are real
Or if the bones in my leg are now rods of steel

I live each day with only minor emotional damage
And greet each new moment as warmly as I can manage
I like to enjoy this transatlantic voyage
But sometimes I wonder if it's all a mirage

I am a traveling salesman from another cosmic location
This is where I choose to spend my summer vacation
I look at the grass and the trees and the sun
And remember that deep down we are all one

I like to perplex people with my crazy behaviour
They thank me and sometimes regard me as a saviour
In the beginning there were no words for us to say
Then everything changed and evolved into what you see today

I'd like to introduce you to your very own reality
Floating inside your mind is another kind of duality
You think you feel things down in your soul
What else could you possibly need to be whole

Before I even get to those scribbles I mentioned ... ironic because of recent musings on parenting ... I was glancing at those alternative acronyms for ERMHA ... one is 'Every Rule Makes Humans Angry' ... :)

Oh, before I forget ... Goran does it! And I must have been one of very few Aussies who was hoping he would. Mainly because he truly is a WILDcard ... and what's more, he does it after momentarily dropping his bundle and doing his nana ... I can relate to THAT!

And in so doing, proves most of the 'experts' (who will remain nameless) wrong, when they said he couldn't do it and he was basically 'just a serve'. :) I mean, don't people learn? The surest way to look like a dill (especially in the realm of sport) is to say some person or team cannot win ... I mean sporting history is dotted with results which were quite 'unexpected'. In fact! If sport always followed a predictable path, nobody would bother watching it! ... :)

Saw an interestin book on sale today. Almost purchased it. Sophie Amundsen & some other author and a 'Book of Days' ('Sophie's World' ?) ... had some intersting stuff about Socrates and provocation and philosophers and being troubled by how little we know and/or understand ...

Okay, now to the promised scribbles. As always, please feel entirely free to agree or disagree or ignore any or all of the following -

More 'random' dialogue:

"But that's the point. Until people STOP and truly ask themselves these questions, they haven't a hope of healing their own pain or anyone else's."

"If I told you what I really think, it would shatter your tiny little minds. You can't HANDLE the truth. If you could, you wouldn't live as you do."

"We don't really trust each other do we. Maybe it's because deep down we suspect that everyone is a lunatic."

"The major frustration is that my wisdom in ITSELF doesn't help anyone else. It doesn't even help me unless it is consciously lived moment by moment."

"I think deep down we ALL know that what we're doing is ridiculous, but for some strange unknown reason we keep on doing it."

"I feel enormous compassion for you ... anyone who pretends to be satisfied when they aren't must be really, really, really frightened."

"I think that's the major cause of friction between parents & their offspring. Most parents try to defend the status quo. The trouble is, the status quo is so absurd & dysfunctional it is absolutely indefensible."

Or .. "The staus quo is absurd and deep down we all know this but parents seem to feel obliged to defend it, for some strange reason. They see their job as teaching their children how to survive in the world as it is rather than daring to imagine the way the world could be if we ever woke up to ourselves."

{Some of those need tinkering. They just pop into my head without warning at the oddest of times. It's really quite an experience.}

I thought there were also a couple about never having the guts to seriously question the status quo and the conventional nonsense ... oh well ... another time perhaps ...

Plus vested interests versus the 'greater good' ... also a fear-based phenomenon ...

Yet,in the midst of all that, I'm wondering where it was that I read that advice about 'setting aside all attack thoughts' (no matter what the provocation) ...

Sophie's World

Interesting paper on Socrates

Plus another, at a site called ... sophies-world.com ... :) It has a sample of the Book of days & a CD-ROM ...

A search of that earlier phrase tossed up some interesting results - set+aside+all+attack+thoughts

A further refinement? ... here ...

And I believe this is the one I had in mind - The Foundation for the Awakening Mind

The more I listen to it, the more I realise the fabulous lyrics on that album, Magical Mystery Tour

Plus a few more tidbits about the contents of that song, I am the walrus

Hearing another of those discussions of 'what women want' (in a man) ... sparks a curious thought in my little grey matter ... if either or both parties in a relationship are in the mindset of even using the phrase 'I want' ... is real love even possible. Who was it that said that ANY statement thet begins with the words 'I want' is a declaration of spiritual impoverishment ... or something like that ...

... and as some of us have realised, genuine love is a spiritual experience (anything else is a pale shadow and we are current living in the shadows most of the time) ...

A few more random thoughts -

"Revenge is NOT justice. Revenge perpetuates the kind of DARK emotional energy that has made human history the sad tale that it has been." {and one might very well replace the word 'revenge' with punishment}

Some interesting additions recently to the Heal Normality Board. So I post some links & info that may be beneficial to some of the participants ...

[  July 11, 2001   '

Testing ...

Another little trip to the aquarium. No photographic record this time, you'll just have to rely on your imaginations. Though the atmosphere (and the crowds due to school hols) did spark some rather interesting musings, some of whic I scribbled down and shall transfer into this journal sometime soon. If I forget, please feel perfectly free to send me an email ...

All about sharks

Fisheye view cam

Coral Reefs

Okay, here's the stuff I scribbled down at and after the four hours at the aquarium ...

For some reason, recent discussions have reminded me of that stuff i wrote a while back about dysfunctional organisations & human behaviour & assimilation versus resistance ... where was that stuff ... amongs the pile of material from last year's VICSERV conference? ... was that only about 12 months ago? seems like several lifetimes ... :)

click ...

(BTW, if I do supply a link, don't publish this material anyone, okay. It's an interesting read but does not necessarily reflect the view of the staff & mangaement of ERMHA - or anyone else on the planet - though I do feel I make some valid points that are worthy of further exploration anyway)

Yesterday I was doing a bit more reflecting on reputation & behaviour & maintaining an image ... yet, absolutely anyone could conceivably go totally berserk for 'no apparent reason', if they happen to have a microscopic brain tumour growin in a vital region, after a lifetime of behaving perfectly normally :)

If your situation in this life is all just past karma catching up with you, what happens to compassion? We tend to generate compassion for e.g. someone who is a 'wonderful person' but who has a brain tumour or something nasty like that. But if they were really creepy in a past life then that condition may in fact the inevitable result of their past misdeeds ... hmmm

"What people may thing of me merely reflects their own insecurities."

"It has been my experience that you can put a negative spin on absolutely everything, if that's what you want to do."

"The thing you need to remember is that those people who devote an inordinate amount of time & energy to criticisng the behaviour of others are actually deeply insecure about their own place in the universe."

Strollling around and watching all these wonderul underwater marine creatures somehow reminded me of a Buddhist story I read quite some time back about the turtle trying to explain the idea of 'solid gorund' to a fish ... click here & scroll down to the 3rd or 4th paragraph ... or click here for more sites ...

Oh, there was something else that popped into my head on the train ... about subscribing to the policy of loving everybody ... and as long as there are relatively few subscribers it impacts everybody, on way or another ... something along those lines anyway ...

Plus a feww more thoughts on one of my favourites themes of parenting & unconventional behaviour ... :)

{Warning: some of the following ideas may not be suitable reading for those who have conventional or closed minds. You might prefer to click here and have a look at some nice photos ...}

Now, I'll concede some of the following could well be interpreted as attack thoughts, but there's also some interesting ideas & perspectives contained within them, so I thought what the heck, why not write them down ...

... and if, like me, at some primal level a soul has decided it has NO interest in being normal there's nothing on earth you could ever say or do that's going to make the TINIEST shred of difference. And let's face it, you have NO right to seek to impose normality onto our offspring. Desperate attempts to do so (usually by using various kinds of emotional blackmail) are a sign of a very frightened (& probably neurotic) perosn and are absolutely doomed to explode one way or another ...

We sure don't think of children as souls entering into bodies to experience being human. If we did, we'd treat them a whole lot better ...

More on this theme later ... you've been warned ... :)

A few more musings on parent-child relations and whether they are the result of 'mutual consent' ...

Plus some reflections on crowd energy ... and it can be +ve or -ve ...

Standing in a queue ... with each person you encounter, you have the choice to hold +ve or -ve thoughts about them ... there was more on this theme but I never got the chance to write it down ...

I also flashed back to that leunig cartoon about the economy and its 'behaviour' and the 'thin weird smile' ...

The video of the coral reefs and the fishies was nice viewing while we stood in line ...

What are you doing when you choose to criticise someone - you're in effect saying that their mistakes are somehow 'worse' than your own. Now, firstly, this is an opinion based on such limited information that it's laughable. And second, even if what they are doing is a mistake (in your opinion), it's their mistake to make.You have absolutely not the foggiest notion of why that soul would choose to have that particular experience ... {needs work}

{Now, I realise that sentiment might seem incongruous with a couple of the ideas mentioned above. Nobody said this stuff was easy. Especially when you bring into the equation the idea of karma from past lives and if you were intolerant or judgemental towards a certain type of individual ... and who knows, it's entirely conceivable that your parents in this life may have been your offspring in a previous time & place ...}

Back to that earlier theme (some of you may wish to look away for a second or two) ... {click}

The soul that would choose a life characterised by highly unconventional behaviour may have done so for a variety of reasons. One of which may be to provide those around him/her with the opportunity to ask themselves why they are so judgemental or uncomfortable when exposed to extremely unconventional individuals. Now whether they choose to avail themselves of such an opportunity ... {especially if it's behaviour they would routinely ridicule or look down upon if it were a 'stranger' doing it ... NOWHERE near as easy to do if it's a close relative}

And it could just be karma in action ... if you've been judgemental towards such individuals in the past without giving it a moment's thought from their perspective ... then you may get to actually RAISE such an individual ... to get a closer and fuller sense of them ... :)

... and where they are coming from ... so you might just find a way to let go of your prejudices & misconceptions ...

However, most parents would initially react with worry along the lines of 'If he's really weird, he won't make any friends' And this may be true to some extent. He probably won't find too many friends amongst the shallow and the judgemental, so he'll be forced to look elsewhere ... :)

And along with the worry will most likely be attempts of one type or other to persuade the person of the value of modifying their behaviour to conform to what 'everyone else does. But if the soul is sufficiently advanced or determined to experience the unconventional, you might as well ask the rivers to flow uphill (an analogy borrowed from the final episode of '500 Nations) ...

... and he/she will most likely laugh (inwardly) at all such ill-advised attempts, which have their genesis in a deep sense of insecurity ... I mean, after all, when you really look at it honestly, what we call 'normality' is a very arbitrary and constrictive set of behaviours. Some might even call it a starightjacket ...

... the soul may have an agenda that the puny minds around him/her couldn't begin to imagine or understand ...

And on the odd occasion, such a soul may be momentarily frustrated into saying things along the lines of: 'I feel really sorry for you people. Only deeply insecure human beings seek to impose normality onto others. If you require everyone around you to conform to such an arbitrary and suffocating set of behaviours then you're really pathetic."

One can imagine such a soul saying something like thay ... or even worse in the heat-of-the-moment. One might even choose to forgive such lapses if one was truly seeking to understand such a soul and the path it has chosen ...

Andrew & Sarah's Aquarium pictures

Later in the evening, as I relaxed by watching some Star Trek ...

Hopefully without a trace of ego, (I mean can a turtle be proud or arrogant that he has access to an experience that the fish never does), in the past two and a bit years I have often felt like a turtle surrounded by fish ... :)

On the subject of worry ---> "I hope this doesn't sound judgemental in any way, but worry is a clear sign that you have no real idea what you're doing here and subsequently you have no real idea what other souls are doing here either. So, you start to worry about them ..."

So, an interesting day, one way or another ...

[  July 12, 2001   '

Interesting what a differnce a day can make ... mulling over yesterday's stuff, the little voices in my head told me it might be a good idea to point out the following alternate perspectives on such matters. If you find anything useful or beneficial amongst them, a prayer of silent gratitude would be nice -

Click here & scroll down to 'if you encounter people you have difficulty in cherishing, cherish them anyway' - or words to that effect ... :)

Or click here & scroll down to 'soul honing' ... or read the whole piece, f you have the time & the inclination ...

Or lick here and scroll down to the bit about allen ginsberg ... You shouldn't have to scroll down too far I'd say ... :)

Or Gibberish Meditation ... and what it says about the contents of one's mind/thoughts ...

I suppose we would all recognies the value of practising nonjudgement if we really took a good look at the current state of the world. But it becomes tough when we see a situation where it looks as if one being is harming or limiting another ... which reminds me of this file and scroll down to 'victim/perpetrator' & the other stuff about victims and the third & fourth dimensions ... it's a toughie! most people would at first be tempted to regard such talk as crazy! ... :()

Yes, a most interesting episode of 'Voyager' ... when I watch the tape again I'll trancribe a few choice selections of the dialogue ... here's a couple that I jotted down as I was watching. BTW, the episode was called 'The Fight' - I may do a search next time I'm online ...

"MY spirit doesn't want that medicine." (Unbelievably ironic!!! for anyone who's ever had 'treatment' imposed on them by well-meaning workers in the current mental health system)

Something else about 'this way is more interesting' ... and nobody who has yet to undertake such a departure from conventional experience is in a position to make any real comment either way ... but that doesn't seem to stop them ...

"You're not going crazy. They're doing this for a reason. ... something else about trusting the process ..."

""You're not crazy. I believe the aliens are reconfiguring your neural pathways so they can communicate with you." {Also unbelievably ironic }

More to come ... if/when i get around to reviewing the video ...

Also jotted down A couple of thoughts this morning, listening again to 'Magical Mystery Tour' ...

On stress: "Stress is caused by the fact that we don't really know what we're doing in this reality ... and we're too scared to truly STOP and ask the question. So we keep ourselves perpetually busy and distracted. And that works for most people. Okay, it doesn't work fabulously but it keeps them from ever asking those deep and awkward questions about their true nature. One could say that a busy lifestyle is a manifestation of stark, unspoken terror."

That gave me the idea to assemble a few of the thoughts from the past few months of this journal for the 'Murmur', with an intro something like this -

Please feel entirely free to agree or disagree or ignore or modify any or all of the following. I'll let you in on a little secret, I don't even necessarily agree with all these thoughts myself. I simply write them down as they pop into my head from time to time throughout the course of the day. Enjoy.

Speaking of which, as i walked around doing some grocery shopping, and it is school hols, the whole idea of labeling behaviour as obnoxious ... and how arbitrary it is ... I mean if nobody is being actually harmed by it ... yet most adults label it thusly as they are irritated by it, generally reflecting their own uptightness ... (needs work)

Today's mantra: "I used to love the medical and financial arrangements of the world." (or 'my life')

Happened to open Bookshelf 98 and it came up with an interesting quote about Francis of Assissi and human rights ... lemme see if I can find it again ...

Ah yes, it was by Simone Weil, a French philosopher, 1909-43 ... 'One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.'

Another of hers is: 'Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.'

Speaking of Voyager ... boy, it seems we in Australia is way behind ... click to see 'The Fight' is episode 112 of 170 in all ... hmmm

Looking for that Leunig ... didn't find it but here's a couple that did happen to catch my eye - Normailty

I like the 'humanitarian' cartoon & quite a few others ... he is unique ... click

Plus ... Life is a holiday on Earth

Ah yes, also watched a greta little doco called 'The Secret Life of Dogs' ... it spoke of the theories of David Paxton and how human & dog evolution went hand in hand but not necessarily the way we might at first imagine ...

Dogs that Know

Plus this piece from Jonica Newby who was also featured in the doco - here

Click here to here an interview on ABC - click

Plus added a nother message to that discussion board - click

Plus the walrus message for some unknown reason ... :)

Why do I do it ... well, one could say it's all fabulous practice in nonjudgement ... I switched on a 'current affairs' program and can't even recall the details of the heated debate ... but it occurs to me, why do we feel this insatiable need to attach a negative or derogatory label to any behaviour that differs markedly from our own tendencies ... insecurity ... deep, deep, insecurity is the only reason ... one might even call it neurotic insecurity ... and yes, I realise that in even making this point I am to some extent doing likewise ... it's a huge problem ... I mean most people do it automatically - every derogatory adjective like chauvanist, jerk, weirdo, loser, freak, you name it ... these labels are as real as you allow them to be ... it means we're taking in a miniscule amount of info about another being's entire existence and choosing to harbour negative thoughts towards them ... and we wonder why the world is so messed up and people are doin crazy stuff ... our thoughts are energy and if the majority of us are habitually generating more & more of this dark emotional energy, is it any wonder that ... we create our own monsters ... and then we demonise them ... starting the circle over again ... and I gotta admit, at times, it saddens me so deeply I wonder how it can ever be turned around ...

... and there was a time, not so very long ago, where it bubbled over from sadness to rage more often than not ... I figured how can ANYONE look at the world and NOT be angry ... So I've come a long way but the journey is still incomplete ...

After reading the stuff at that 'Heal Normality' board ... and the levels of understandable frustration & anger & despair at the existing system ... and how I used to be myself ... um, what was I trying to say ... oh yes, I wonder how many participants would react favourably to the suggestion that 'nothing happens by accident' and this is all past karma being worked out ... there was a time, if you had suggested that view of reality to me I would have either laughed in your face or exploded or concluded that I must have been a real aerosol in a previous life to deserve the many and varied exquisite tortures of schizophrenia at its worst ... indescribable ...

I decided to plug ' victim perpetrator duality' into google ... click

I like the top result first off, namely www.worldpeace2050.com ...

Plus, the second one is about pets and says, 'Duality always creates tensions, because we are inherently uncomfortable with un-wholeness or fragmentation' ... hmmm :)

Today;s mantra: "I used to walk towards the wednesdays and walk towards the careful wednesdays."

[  July 13, 2001   '

Some rather interesting emails lately. I may transfer the gist of a couple of them into this journal. I hope my correspondents don't mind. They're generally an easy-going bunch and if I merely record my own mental meanderings, there's should be no infringement of privacy. :)

In case I forget and this is just off the top of my head ... there was stuff about wishing people unexpected & unexplained waves of euphoria, the constellation of orion, mood disorders, dogs, trees, Cave In The Snow, buddhist thought, some aphorisms from Voltaire, , Dalai Lama, psychiatric wards, anger, the turtle story, attachment, reprogramming entrenched thought patterns and a whole bunch of stuff like that ... stay tuned ...

betty6c.html

In the meantime, here's some more 'random' dialogue that popped into my head as I walked around the shops. Who knows, maybe it's mental telepathy of some kind -

"I'll make a deal with you, okay. You live your way and I'll live mine. I won't point out the gaping holes in your way of life if you show me the same courtesy. That's fair, isn't it."

"There are any number of indicators that a society is in a sick state. One such indicator is the number of people who either can't or won't participate in the normal hustle and bustle of things. Other indicators include the suicide rate, the divorce rate, the addiction rate ..." [One could use S.A.D. as an acronym for those three rates.]

{The number of faces that have reluctance written all over them is also a pretty fair sign that all is not well ...}

"No. I don't hate anything. Hatred is a very destructive form of energy. It's the energy that has made the world what it is today. By choosing to hate anyhting or anyone, you perpetuate that energy within yourself."

To follow yesterday's doco was one on cats which are very different creatures ... may check out some of the poetry & stuff mentioned in what was a most entertaining and pleasant diversion ... :)

Rudyard Kipling, TS Eliot to name a couple ...

Click here to see a bit more from Bookshelf 98 & Simone Weil ...

A few more mantras, for special occasions (such as the first Monday of the week and so on):

{Note: Some of these mantras may not be suitable for beginners. Please check with a registered mental health professional if you have any doubts. Choose the one which best suits your mood - or the mood you'd rather be experiencing.}

"I think that intergalactic aliens are tampering with my bones on a regular basis"

"I was named by 14 doctors in the weirdness of my life"

"What could I ever expect to learn about the most of twenty"

More to come ... when I get around to it ...

Click here to see a photo of one of the large trees in my backyard. As you can see, it's completely naked at this time of year but you can also see that the sun was out when I took the photo. So we shouldn't complain too much about the winters here in Southern Australia when compared with other parts of the world. :)

Interesting quote (after posting again to the Heal Normality Board) ...

The purpose of using flower essences can be explained on many levels, but to simplify, think of them as "liquid consciousness."

Click for more ...

Discussion group From email abt cruisng bookshops & book covers & titles ... amazingly, given the emails I sent today, it has one discussion on the giza pyramids! (under 'debunkers' or something like that)

Plus ... this

And I like the final paragraph of this contribution

Then ... the Planetary Activation Organisation - click

I like the analogy to a chess champion - because to a novice the moves can seem 'magical' ... :)

It also mentions quantum biology ... and of course ... starseeds :)

... and a technique for activating yourself ... (If you do happen to be a starseed, that is)

I like the glossary - esp Light Chambers - sounds a tad more advanced than the light therapy we've been talkig about ... :) click

[  July 14, 2001   '

About time I did another book 'review' ... so as I was walking past the library, I decided to duck in and see if 'The Visionary Human' is on the shelf ... it was ... so see the scans ... I ought to actually type them up but you know me ... besides which, isn't the idea of copyright a fear-based concept and the book is seeking to liberate people from their fears ...

... and I do make a HTM file for them - The Visionary Human ...

Yes, amazingly, after flicking over the Bob Monroe interview in the appendix, it fell open at 'random' to page 76 which mention Alan Lewis and his book 'When I Die, Will I Be Dead?', which I once saw at a giant sale but didn't purchase and it wasn't to be found the next time I went back due to the vast number of books laid out on the benches ... :)

Meanwhile, here's a few things I've scribbled down over the past few days ...

"If you have never experienced it, your comments are pretty irrelevant. I wouldn't presume to comment on that which i have not experienced and when you look at it, you have not experienced the entirety of another being's existence ..."

(From witnessing some 'irate' customer in the supermarket ... yes, intense & irrational anger does make most of us uncomfortable, doesn't it ... and while the following statement is absolutely correct, it would more than likely make such a person even more angry: "I didn't make you angry. You created your own anger but you don't want to take responsibility for having created it."

Yet, I have known such anger on many occasions and you genuinely DO believe that it's the stupidity of others that is responsible for your anger and your anger would go away if you weren't surrounded by irritatin people ... :)

"I have this little theory that there comes a point in the journey of each soul from lifetime to lifetime when this 'stuff' takes absolute priority. Until that point is reached, there's absolutely nothing you could say or do to persuade the soul to focus in this way. Equally, once that point is reached there is nothing you can say or do to get them to drop it ..."

"You react that way because deep down you'd really like to be a free spirit but you're too afraid of what people might think. So you sit in judgement on those who are free spirits."

Here's something no parent ever expects to hear: "My assessment of normality is that it's an insufficient experience. That's why I chose to come to this planet to experience a highly unorthodox and unconventional existence. There's nothing whatsoever you could have said or done to convince me to be normal."

"That would be beautiful advice. If i was interested in being normal. But I'm not." (matter-of-fact tone)

"I would suggest that your opinion of me is based on an imperfect knowledge of the entirety of my existence. So it's basically guesswork and can be safely ignored."

"Praying for those who are treating you poorly becomes a lot easier once you realise that one human being only treats another human being in such a manner when they are in pain themselves. Truly joyous individuals just don't go around bothering their fellow beings."

(Following on from an earlier thought) "It's a very common phenomenon. Most people impose incredible limitations & restrictions onto their own behaviour simply because they have become addicted to seeking validation through winning or maintaining the approval of other human beings."

"That's why people tend to react with suspicion and mistrust when they encounter unconventional souls. Because it reminds them of what a suffocating self-imposed prison normality really is. It must be dreadful to live like that. I don't know how anyone does it. Naturally, nobody does it for very long. Let's face it, one or two hundred years is like the blink of an eye.""

"Inside that fear is the unspoken and unacknowledged suspicion that extreme unconventionality may ultimately be a doorway to experiences of a profoundly superior nature to that which normal folk encounter." (needs work)

Plus heaps more I never bothered to record. And one could argue even the above ...

Today's mantra: "That's why the human race was designed. We were designed to ask questions in our mind."

Reading over that interview ... some interesting stuff about spirits & discarnate entities & 'possession' ... hmmm :)

Posted a bit more Leunig to the Heal Normality board after the favourable reception ... :)

Added Secrets of Telepathy link to my list of 'Sites for sore minds' ...

That site also has "Return of the Dove", which brings back some interestin memories. STILL have absolutely NO idea why it's listed under a link that says 'Nikola Tesla', which is really the only reason I clicked on the link! And if not for that time spent at ERMHA, I'd have not heard of his name ... or a few other pieces of information & expeerience ... :)

Yearning

[  July 15, 2001   '

Added Altered States of Consciousness Centre to my sites list ... and a couple of others ...

Watched that movie about the 'rescue' of flight 771 again ... truth truly is stranger than fiction - click

Some interesting indigenous poetry as well ... one sounded like 'What can I tell you, son of mine' ...

As I went for a walk on a chilly, windy day ... looking over the past few days 'stuff', it dawns on me that it's a very fine balance between matter-of-factly observing & pointing out what people are doing 'wrong' (in terms of sabotaging their own peace-of-mind & thus their happiness) and drifting ever so subtly into a kind of attack mode. I suppose it's a question of intent ... I mean if you're pointing out people's 'errors' as a way of venting your own personal frustration that's not a healthy activity for a person's mind (this needs work but I trust it makes some amount of sense) ...

Decided to look up the lyrics of that song form the advert about 'dreamer's disease' ...

I also scribbled down a couple of thoughts about 'we create our own monsters ... but we'd never own up to doing it - and that's the problem ...'

Sent Yearning to the Heal Normality crowd ... they can probly relate to it ... though I know how that feeling can easily become darker and angrier given the current 'system' ...

Found reference to that poem in that page at the 'Eternity Mother' site, which takes a little while to load! :) - click ...

There was once an argument among the gods

Aboriginal art & culture

The end of the world

Dreamtime Art Gallery

That came from a page of links at bloorstreet.com as above ...

The Art Site on the World Wide Web

Liquid candles

Wrote an absolute heap of stuff before & after watching a couple of excellent programs on our ABC ... some of which will spill over into tomorrow's journal if that's okay with you ...

Taking the second program first, it was an elegy for the poet Allen Ginsberg. I was familiar with some of his stuff but the program gave me a much better feel for him & his work. Nextime I'm online I may see if I can dredge up a link or two to show you waht I mean ...

I had heard of his most famous 'Howl' befoer but this show really brought it to life. A poem can come alive just by reading it but to hear the poet verbalise his own interpretation or somebody else adds another dimension ...

In case I forget, here's a few phrases you might like to plug into Google ...

- memories of allen ginsberg

- poems written after using drugs

- allen ginsberg howl

- allen ginsberg Kaddish

- elegy for allen ginsberg

- howl sphinx brains moloch

- allen ginsberg poem mother

- allen ginsberg poem meditation

- allen ginsberg with your eyes

- allen ginsberg god included in it all

- allen ginsberg purpose of poetry soul (stir)

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