Delusions of Divinity?Delusions of Divinity?Have a lurk on my spiritual journey. They are pragmatic, earthy and mystical musings or rants on life, love and the Big E Articles
Delhi Belly
2008-11-02 19:18:00 Sunday 2: Still suffering from Delhi Belly as well as pinched nerve in left arm. It?s very debilitating. Even eating and drinking is a chore so it is easier not to bother. Found myself returning to Bernard?s Thought Bricks Teaching Course this morning. That triggered off a wave of recollections (from 1980), some pleasant, others less ...
adding form to the formless
2008-11-01 22:01:00 Saturday 1: Happy Birthday M In one of my art magazines, an artist wrote that she was running out of space to store her artworks, which, if I recall aright, ran into the thousands. No chance of that happening with me as I destroyed four pieces last night and a further two today. With board, you ... More About: Form
unwanted visitors
2008-10-31 18:54:00 Friday 31: Why has the BBC got money and creative talent muddled up? Jonathan Ross does have a lot of energy and confidence, but I am sure there are quite a few really talented people who 6,000,000 per annum could fund. Why just ONE person? As a licence payer, I would like to spread the ... More About: Visitors
have a good scream
2008-10-30 21:35:00 Thursday 30: Staying buoyant when there are moments when you want to panic is a real art ? or science. Yes faith plays a part, but when God seems distant, I fall back into what worked before. So it is the science of faith for me especially when internal chaos can be quite appalling. God ... More About: Scream , Good
kleptocratic Britain
2008-10-29 15:27:00 Wednesday 29: (Written last night) The best things about most articles these days are the comments. So thanks to Mr T for the chuckle on a piece about specific cells responding or firing to images of particular celebrities or people in the public eye: ?i bet that no one has a Gordon Brown one.? Haha. Meanwhile, ... More About: Britain
wine therapy
2008-10-28 19:24:00 Tuesday 28: One of the difficulties in knowing what is best to do for Ma is that one moment she really seems at death?s door, and, the next, rallies quite spectacularly. The emotional yo-yoing is quite hard for all of us to deal with. Today, for example, when I rang, she sounded quite poorly. She asked ... More About: Wine , Therapy
deflated
2008-10-27 18:58:00 Monday 27: Being rejected is all part of ?being an artist?, I gather. Although mine were in the middle of 1,102 other rejections (only 117 were accepted), and I firmly subscribe to the ?never give up? life principle, I will not be submitting to this particular show again. Among last year?s offerings was one called ...
the earth after us
2008-10-26 19:36:00 Sunday 26: It is wonderful having a creative purpose and even being an evangelist for self-expression. They should be reward enough, but are not. Leaving aside the mundane human need for reward and recognition, there is also an existential need: what is the point of work, of art or any other form of creativity, if ... More About: Earth
mixed priorities
2008-10-25 21:44:00 Saturday 25: My priorities must have got jumbled today as I spent 7 on food and 21.50 on eye cream. I don?t normally use creams under my eyes or on my neck. If I buy them it is because they tend to be lighter than face moisturisers. But, the other day, I used one of ... More About: Mixed
love is the answer
2008-10-24 21:27:00 Friday 24: I feel rather sorry for atheists. Richard Dawkins is not ideal material for their cause, being emotional rather than passionate, which rather negates his scientific stance. Now it seems he may also be evolving spiritually (“a serious case could be made for a deistic god”) in Ickian fashion – meaning in the public eye ... More About: Love , Answer
predicting the future
2008-10-23 15:40:00 Thursday 23: Would I ever have my cards read again or visit a psychic? I refused a Tarot reading the other day, and the subject cropped up again today for someone else. Yet I have been to many over the years, so what?s the problem now? Some have been extraordinarily perceptive, one without even meeting ... More About: Future , The Future
burning in hell
2008-10-22 20:55:00 Wednesday 22: Burning in hell… do people really take that literally? The poor sods who are suffering in this current financial climate are in a kind of hell, as were the Lloyds? names of a few years back. Divorce is a kind of hell. The ?burning? element is how much emotional pain one endures ? ... More About: Hell
delays and obstacles
2008-10-21 13:57:00 Tuesday 21: Happy Birthday to a very special little person today. I have clients visiting today but am going over later to to share cake and hugs with him in Ma?s room. Happily, I slept very well indeed, although I did wake up briefly at around 4am. Less happily, I still have this head cold. ... More About: Delays
no accounting for taste
2008-10-20 18:55:00 Monday 20: Parts of Sussex still operate as if business is to be tolerated. Three have just lost trade because of perpetual voicemail ? and they are hotels as well as restaurants! Six others are not open for lunch. One has ceased trading. The pub restaurants will not be discreet enough for the client and ... More About: Accounting , Taste
positively conking out
2008-10-19 19:01:00 Sunday 19: The gospel of positive thinking has, for the most part, been built on elements of the New Testament. ?As you believe..? ?On Earth as it is in Heaven..? And so on. Yet, even though I am a believer in this aspect of spiritual metaphysics, I question why no-one questions the obviously missing elements ...
therapy of cleaning
2008-10-18 22:21:00 Saturday 18: The number 18 has always been rather challenging for me and today is no different. It is nearly 3pm and all I have had so far today is one cup of coffee. I was up relatively early cleaning out umpteen vacuum cleaners, one dumping its load all over the carpet. I then vacuumed ... More About: Cleaning , Therapy
indian spiritual journey
2008-10-17 18:54:00 Friday 17: Physician, heal thyself is a good rule to adopt ? especially as doctors love to didactically proclaim and then, once we have built a habit on their advice, they come out with quite the reverse. Read the current views on taking aspirin. Or red wine. While I am not that brilliant about taking any ... More About: Indian , Journey , Spiritual
three down more to go
2008-10-16 17:55:00 Thursday 16: Happy Birthday Sarah ? and H Well guys and gals, especially gals, it seems, I will not be shaking hands with y?all any more! It will be Namaste and that?s it. Just remember, cleanliness is next to godliness, folks. Note to flat-earthers: More success with magnet therapy (transcranial magnetic stimulation) or TMS cf New Scientist. ...
Blog Action Day: poverty consciousness part 2
2008-10-15 14:01:00 Wednesday 15: Blog Action Day - Does obsession with power and control kill off the cells responsible for commonsense and vision? Perhaps they cannot have both turned on at the same time? How else to explain the supremely daft things ?they? do or want to do with public money. Instead of spending money on yachts ... More About: Poverty , Part , Consciousness
poverty consciousness
2008-10-14 21:34:00 Tuesday 14: Best plans to get the proposal done and dusted, as well as a first article for a new contact, went to pot as, at very short notice, the psychiatrist came to see Ma… Obviously the guy could not commit himself, but she did herself no favours whatsoever, not only in how she presented ... More About: Poverty , Consciousness
more days like these
2008-10-13 21:34:00 Monday 13: Apart from having a very slight fever right now, I would definitely like more days like today. Of course it was not pleasant seeing Ma go from looking half-dead to upset ? although at least the latter is a sign of vibrancy. But there has been some progress, and it was good to ... More About: Days
illustrative Sunday
2008-10-12 19:56:00 Sunday 12: Affirmations can be difficult. They have to be constantly amended to suit the circumstances, so one part of your mind doesn?t argue with the affirming part. And especially when some hefty bills come in. Next best task is to distract attention ? which I did with this illustration for a fun competition (what ... More About: Sunday
handling shifting winds
2008-10-11 16:17:00 Saturday 11: The discipline of all those years of spiritual and mind exercises have been kicking in recently, to counteract the effects of the economic storm clouds. (Even a hermit would not be immune at the moment!) It does work, certainly in providing mental equilibrium, and definitely in keeping fear thoughts at bay. But I would ... More About: Winds
21c slavery
2008-10-10 21:22:00 Friday 10: It does seem rather odd that with the country (and indeed a lot of the world) in financial turmoil, our Prime Minister actually looks happy for the first time since winning power. His solution to anything is to spend taxpayers? money. When the pot runs out, get the taxpayer to fill it up ... More About: Slavery
when self help gurus lose the plot
2008-10-09 16:12:00 Thursday 9: Thank God I have finished that awful book. The woman was absolutely barking ? God rest her soul. Yes I know that can be perceived as a derogatory statement about someone who was patently mentally unwell (an addictive personality, alcoholic, desiring assisted suicide, hearing and listening to voices, allowing them to run her ... More About: Gurus , Plot
things can only get better
2008-10-08 20:17:00 Wednesday 8: Ignorance is definitely bliss. There ? another foolproof technique for achieving the unlimited. A day trip to London, no newspaper nor other newsfeed, and no emails or ?phone calls re family. My mind went on a pleasure trip which worked wellbeing wonders, and I was practically high on enthusiasm and positive vibes. And ... More About: Things
being needled
2008-10-07 22:22:00 Tuesday 7: Humping a heavy printer the day after lugging in four big bags of sand, and then putting together a printer trolley (over 100 pieces inc screws and washers), I needed today?s trip to the acupuncturist. After umpteen needles, cupping, electrical stimulation and muscle manipulation, I am still not yet out of the woods ...
dream reality
2008-10-05 22:20:00 Sunday 5: To remember dreams, is definitely a day?s highlight. This morning, I had to mentally pinch myself to flip back into this reality. Naturally, like most dreams, I can barely recall it now but made some notes when I awoke… Start of dream: Smartly suited, I found myself in an art gallery (not invited), although ... More About: Reality , Dream
repressed energies
2008-10-04 21:15:00 Saturday 4: The plan to get the cold frame up and secure again was half fulfilled: I bought four heavy bags of sand and carted them from car boot to back garden, narrowly missing two snails with my bare hands. Yeurk. I know I should love all God?s creatures (and I sort of do) but ...
calling Archangel Michael
More articles from this author:2008-10-03 19:14:00 Friday 3: The best laid plans… Putting the printer together was a doddle. Getting it to turn on was not. I took it back to Brighton this morning to see what was amiss. A faulty on/off button. The replacement is coming on Monday, which gives me scant time for playing with the art marketing stuff ... More About: Michael , Calling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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