1st January is a good time to think, especially after the year we’ve just left behind. So many people have been saying we need to get away from the ‘old’ normal, not go back to it (usually people with more than one brain cell to run together). But even if so many of us want a new way to live, with more equity, less poverty and more self-respect, it looks like it’s still an optimistic dream.
At New Year, Charles Eisenstein – a particularly good philosopher/leader – had a meditation. One of the thoughts that sank in was that change has to come from the heart, from the inside out, it can’t be imposed from outside. That, of course, is a lot more difficult (at least on the surface), than taking guns and cannon and rocket launchers, but we’ve had 4 thousand years of that mentalilty and men still think it works. Patently, it doesn’t.
We *have* to change, or we can kiss goodbye to humanity – and to the earth, too. The mess we’ve made of the environment means that the next pandemic will be a lot worse. So surely it makes sense that we start caring for the environment? You’d have thought it would be self-evident, wouldn’t you. But when people trying to save lives in the NHS are attacked and vilified, I am astonished at just how stupid people can be. There’s self-sabotage, and then there’s self-destruction.
The image is a daub about self-sabotage and self-destruction.
Disconnection in Time & Space
The disconnection in time is easy – I haven’t recorded any thoughts for a long time, mainly because I’ve been working on my latest – and last – deck, the Oracle of the Future. I’ve already explained a couple of times why it’s my last deck, but the easiest explanation...
Dark, Violent Forces
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Pip decks
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The SACRED MARRIAGE
I had a dream a couple of nights ago mainly about a set of twins. Not surprising, perhaps, as I am reading a book at present featuring twins (The Alchymist by Michael Scott, which, by the way, I can thoroughly recommend). I don't remember much about the dream apart...
Thoughts on Paradox, Ambiguity and Uncertainty
Humanity has never enjoyed uncertainties, and although we say we like mystery, we don’t, really. We do not deal easily with ambiguity. Things are either black or white (though we can manage grey - as a colour), up or down, dark or light. However, with the...
Working_Backwards
Thoughts on Working Backwards For the last few weeks I've been producing images and copy for my website, which has been created for me by my IT wizard. It's just as well that I finally shouted to him for help, because I can't think logically enough to create a website...