WHAT IS A THOUGHT? My take: a thought is a decision to change the vectors of our activity, to perform an action, to change a state of mind? If we completely identified ourselves within our human body, thought would be impossible because it implies there is something apart from pure biology that is causing us to take action. We may be alerted via our body 5 senses but what is it that causes us...
Before this wonderful exhibition closes this Saturday we had to go alone take another look and this time there was another explainer (see my previous entry) by the name of Dessanka who started her talk by welcoming us and warning us that we may run over the allotted half hour slot. We did in fact in slightly over the hour and that was because she knew an awful lot about painting and artists. I...
I honestly believe that starting socially or culturally-based organisations is a lost art. We have too many institutions, bureaucracies, political parties, groups whose aim is to make money for the participants or advancing your career but what about cultural groups? They seem quite low down on the scale of priorities. Where I live in Somerset, I can only recall one group that was started and...
THE POSSIBLE BENEFIT OF COPPER Witness the wonderful copper cups that we have bought, The healing powers of copper have been used since time immemorial and I know they claim copper bangles reduce symptoms of rheumatism. I bought these two cups because a friend of mine said that if you drank water from copper containers it tastes better than from enamel or other containers. We have an energy...
This word represents a particularly severe type of criticism. A context is for example "his latest report to received excoriating reviews". The word comes from the Latin excoriatus, which means to flay, strip off the skin of, to break and remove the outer layers of the skin in any manner. So this word gets to the roots of the problem and deals with it appropriately. 'Excoriatory' is not just...
On the occasion of my birthday in June I'm going to have a specialist networking event for those who dwell naturally in the spheres beyond the material level and are focused on the more existential questions such as the development of consciousness. I shall be inviting a cohort of 16 people who probably receive a lot of invitations every week a d are very busy and so I have to have something...
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