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Travels in North Devon

We left last Friday to see a group of kindred spirits living in a communal house in North Devon. I was able to do some psychic readings on Saturday and Sunday and a talk on the Saturday night which was apparently well received. The talk was about attitudes to one to one counselling and I was suggesting that the environment plays a very important part in the reach of trust towards the therapist...

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Holdstone Down – EX34 0PF – where George King of the Aetherius Society conducted a ceremony

Up quite a mysterious and misty hill where our hosts for the weekend come regularly and pray and beam peace to the world. Weather at the top can vary from still fog (as it was today) and a raging tempest, which will blow you off your feet. This was where George King performed a ceremony in July of 1958. North Cornwall has a different feel to the more populated south, maybe because it is more...

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Combe Martin Beach

We went for a walk from the town to the beach. We always on arrival at a new place go for a walk. We just beat the sunset. This small town of 2000 pop is essentially one long street in a valley. The rocks are extraordinarily interesting as can be seen from the examples enclosed. There were very few people around. Most people who passed us were walking their dogs. Shops and cafes and pubs were...

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Dark days, darker nights

Off to the garage to take my car and see if anything can be done to improve the performance. My auto was not changing gear without complaint. The garage changed the gear oil (at 60k you could say that it was due) and it now goes smoother. I saw this car parked in the front garden of a house when I was returning from dropping off my car.It needs a prize of some sort for sheer stubbornness of the...

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A new year – the second day

I watched briefly for two minutes BBC1 TV hoping to see something more than Jules Holland. Instead there was a firework display and God help us even this had been turned into a propaganda exercise for the Government. Blazoned across the sky was talk of the wonderful NHS, how we are 'in this together' and probably more had I not chosen to switch off. I hear a new strain is staled to appear in...

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List of words you might not know

I love words. Here are a few that I had not been aware of anomalistic - adjective. Departing from the normal: aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, atypic, atypical, deviant, divergent, irregular, preternatural, unnatural. Catatonic - psychomotor disorder, meaning it involves the connection between mental function and movement. daemonic -  An evil supernatural being; a devil.  2. A persistently...

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