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
Colour therapy,
2011-03-24 16:29:00 meaning splodging and training colour on paper or canvas and letting it talk back to me, is a great way to clear the artistic cobwebs ? for me. Sometimes something really good results. Or not, as was the case with some pieces earlier this week. Then I discovered a Gerhart Richter. One shouldn?t bash a ... More About: Therapy , Colour
I have wept a little
2011-03-17 14:14:00 …every day since the Japanese disaster started. Not enough to send me rushing to the nearest psychiatrist, but enough to remind me why I had turned down my compassion volume. And not enough to soften my stance on an overdue cuckoo cull ? ie all those who have taken appalling advantage of the compassion ...
Karma, unsurprisingly,
2011-03-15 15:25:00 …has cropped up several times in relation to the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. While I do believe in the principle of cause and effect, what these critics have failed to understand is that we are one organism. When payback comes, it is usually in the weakest parts of the whole and Japan lies ... More About: Karma
Learning is
2011-03-07 22:00:00 …a continuous process, and means trying out things that I would not normally consider. Like drawing or painting cats ? apart from Moggford and Sam, my cartoon characters. And, given the difficulty in getting the colours or fur right with this cat, I can safely say that I will not be taking commissions for painting ... More About: Learning
The Law of Attraction
2011-03-04 17:44:00 …cropped up during the back ?facial? the other day. Like cosmic ordering, it?s marketing-speak, appealing to our basest instincts (me too, btw) rather than allowing us to discover our spiritual provenance. And, forever seeking balance, there are inevitably going to be darker experiences. But the mind body spirit industry is not allowed the luxury of a ... More About: Attraction , Law of Attraction
What creates value?
2011-02-18 15:43:00 From an artist-writer?s viewpoint, quantifying value is even more challenging. The proof of value, to some, is through sales success. For others, it is what you do for others. But value does have its levels. A drone in a large corporation has value but not irreplaceable value. Even middle managers have limited value no matter how ...
Major progress?
2011-02-10 13:20:00 on Kindle books achieved, but now I know why I?ve been putting it off for so long. Enjoyable it may be, but it?s also been a heck of a lot of work. And that?s just the editing. Still, I should have a cartoon book up within four weeks, and one of the Little Books ? ... More About: Progress
Another year older
2011-02-03 16:22:00 …(yesterday) and a couple of health goals have been achieved. My weight is now 9st ? though I have a feeling it will drop a bit lower due to the current elimination diet ? and the vesicles are well on their way to going. Hopefully, forever. The latter are being helped along by said elimination diet, ...
Positive thinking is good.
2011-01-22 17:34:00 But (yup), affirming positive thinking mantra is not meant to block out the realities of the wider world despite many self-help gurus advocating periods of never reading ?negative? energies like newspapers. Spiritually, we are supposed to engage with the rest of the whole, and to attempt to change things for the better ? although ... More About: Good
Physician heal thyself
2011-01-16 23:59:00 …may have a Biblical meaning, but I happen to think we are best at knowing how to cure ourselves, if we not only listened to our inner voice, but acted on it as well. The challenge usually lies in not knowing where a cause orginated, and therefore not being totally sure of what best action ...
A week into the new year
2011-01-07 17:38:00 -and there definitely feels a kind of buoyancy about. Personal needs and wider world issues still provide gnawing moments, but that light doesn?t seem quite so far away. Well not as much as it has been.Meanwhile: Purpose and greatness are concepts mentioned on a page I have been stuck on, in a book I have ... More About: New Year , Week
Last Christmas
2010-12-30 20:28:00 …was spent in Turkey. A fact I seemed to only recall last night, as I failed to drop off to sleep speedily and easily, as usual. In fact, this festive season has been testing, to say the least, for taking ages to get to Nodland ? though heavens knows why trying to remember details of ... More About: Christmas
Greetings to one and all
2010-12-24 11:36:00 With all good wishes to everyone who has ever popped by here. I hope your Christmas and New Year is all you wish for and that 2011 brings you especial good fortune - with someone looking over you to guide you on your way. Euphrosene
Looping thoughts
2010-12-23 15:49:00 …(Ma?s) used to drive me loopy. But public blogging is also afflicted with the same curse. Most of the same things happen, most of the time ? meaning looping (ie repeating again and again) tales of joy or woe (and hardly worth posting).Like misplaced generosity. Mine, that is. Or poor communication ? meaning none ... More About: Thoughts
New Year?s Day
2010-12-15 22:06:00 …is usually when I go through last year?s goals and intentions and revise my business plan. For some reason, I have been reviewing personal wishes as well as business goals for the last fortnight or so. My spiritual purpose remains unchanged but the pragmatic outcomes do have to because I simply do not have the ... More About: New Year
Dad wanted me
2010-12-08 21:43:00 …to be a lawyer, but I got unremarkable O and A levels. I could have re-taken them and gone to university. I think it was a poly in those far off days, when I even visited Hatfield with a view to taking a degree in social sciences. Ah the memory comes back of being an ...
Ma
2010-12-06 18:15:00 , for a time, was obsessed with Therese Neumann. I well remember visiting Konnersreuth, where Dad had taken us, en famille, because Ma so desperately wanted to see her. Despite Therese Neumann?s evident sanctity [cf Yogananda], Konnersreuth remains a slightly dark moment in my life. But there was fun. The long train journey and amusing ...
A woman was yelling
2010-11-28 20:07:00 …at her mother outside Fortnum and Mason. It was just a few steps but the old lady was hesitating. Like toddlers, heights and trying to balance also affect the old, and you could see her confusion so I automatically held out my hand ? which she grabbed onto. I asked the daughter to take her other ... More About: Woman
Life remains eventful
2010-11-21 13:55:00 …even if the events are not exactly life-changing or a great delight. Sharing my shame, as is my wont, I visited a trichologist on Friday. The good news is I have ?beautiful?, ?very lovely?, ?healthy? hair. The bad news is there is thinning on the temples and a hint of a possible problem on the crown. ... More About: Life
My dressmaking skills
2010-11-18 21:22:00 …have long since disappeared. Yet there was a time I could draw an outfit and knock it up in a couple of evenings. And all from my bedsit in East Finchley. For some reason, I thought about it again with this particular Royal wedding. Probably because she is not a virgin, so not a white ... More About: Skills
The Middle Ages
2010-11-17 20:06:00 …have long fascinated me, in a ?thank God I wasn?t around then? kind of way. Barbaric punishments, greedy ?masters?, servitude of one sort or another, mass ignorance and, most of all, a sense of not being in control. For several weeks/ months/ a long time, I have felt regular resonances of those times, with the ... More About: Middle
When did going to university
2010-11-10 19:38:00 …become a right to be funded by the greater whole? I never went to university and have never suffered either academically (subjective opinion, of course!) or in the job market. If I wanted something I went for it ? and it was far less easy then, being both ?ethnic? and female. I didn?t have the ... More About: University
Despite failing
2010-11-07 15:25:00 …to stick to my exercise goals, and treating myself to a cake, as well as sunflower butter on my Ryvita, my weight has dropped to under nine and half stone. Still a little bit more to go, and I overdid the tummy massage, ending up with big bruises, so I?m being a bit more ...
Weight issues
2010-11-02 18:39:00 , despite only being 9lbs heavier than my ideal, is embarrassing. It feels like a failure of mind. Yet I don?t, as a rule, overeat, am flexible, energetic, and otherwise healthy. Admittedly, forced exercise has never appealed ? and doesn?t now, either. I dance when I want or walk when I want. And I can?t ... More About: Weight , Issues
Probably like
2010-10-28 15:49:00 ..a lot of people, I didn?t realise the extent of taxpayers? largesse till relatively recently, thinking the Daily Mail stories were exceptions. Seems not, which is why I am really angry at the waste ? both in monetary terms and also in human/spiritual terms. Unsurprisingly, many social media sites are talking up failure, but failure ...
Prophetic dreams
2010-10-23 16:22:00 …usually occur, from personal experience, at 3am. Later in the dream cycle, especially if you?ve woken and then gone back to sleep, dreams are usually indicative of current issues. So despite the awfulness of the massive lice gorging away under the glove box (ie passenger side) of my car, I wasn?t too bothered. Apart from ... More About: Dreams
Welcome
2010-10-19 21:37:00 …to this world, Isabella Sophia! Glad it wasn?t the 18th!*It might now be a challenging time for adults, but I?m optimistic that current sacrifices will ultimately create a better future for all. Needless to say, there are those who either vehemently or violently disagree. I?d guess the louder ones are those who have had an ...
Goals fulfilled
2010-10-14 14:55:00 …is a goal in itself. Re-discovering Joe Karbo?s The Lazy Man?s Way to Riches, one of the better self-help books, I can see from my my 1981 notes that I achieved almost everything I ?asked for?. .. TEN years? later! Some desires, over time, became less desirable ? and remain unmissed. Reviewing them in 1992, there ... More About: Goals
The welfare state
2010-10-09 22:19:00 …might have started out, with wonderfully good intentions, as a social safety net but, somewhere along the line, it has become a lifestyle choice for some - I?ve lost count of people saying it pays more than work - and clawing back of taxes paid for others. Those who moan and bleat about the loss ... More About: State
Rights.
More articles from this author:2010-10-03 14:48:00 …Everybody has rights nowadays so, unsurprisingly, one person?s rights infringe on those of another. Right to get married; right to live ?in sin?; right to breastfeed in public (am waiting for the right to breastfeed in church); right to wear almost no clothes; right to be covered up from top to toe; right to believe; ... More About: Rights 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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