Staying sane is a great endeavour for me right now.
Yes, 'the Kingdom of Heaven was always within.' But how to keep it safe in a time as turbulent as now seems to be an acrobatic 'tour de force!' What you postulate is so true backed up by my intuition.
It has become almost unbearable to enter social media, will it ever cease?
I have always said 'Beauty is my guidance,' and I still insist on staying faithful to it.....
Yes, like you state 'our intuitive perception' it has to grow stronger and stronger.
Thanks so much Kingsley for this very timely essay posting. I'll let it sink in and see how it will influence my somewhat dire mood of the moment!
NB. A Tale to finish I remember from somewhere in one of your more recent books!!! :)))
As the 'theatre of the absurd' outside becomes more surreal, it will become a natural response to seek the sanity & peace within ... you can't 'break the spell' by fighting it.. only by choosing your own genuine path.... Yes, I've used such tales many times - they've accompanied me through my own path :-)
Catharina, at around ten o'clock last night, as it was growing dusk, I heard a thrush singing, and it gladdened my heart. May is such a beautiful month. There is so much to appreciate and be grateful for in this life experience.
Thanks for such a beautiful and timely article! I had the good fortune to speak with you a few times several years ago about a book idea. The book never progressed, externally at least, but the same creative thread that spawned it lives on.
Allow me to interesting anecdote that I obtain can deliver succinctly. In the midst of traveling Japan I was simultaneously involved with every deep, ontological ally oriented dialogue with AI. Trying as much as possible to keep my detached and pure autonomous awareness while talking to the machine. The theme of recursion, kept coming, over and over, and for weeks Hofstadter’s book, “Gödel, Escher, Bach” kept coming up in the conversation.
A few weeks later, in the bardo realm of travel and semantic overdrive with AI conversations, we land in remote East Sumbawa, at a tiny surf village with 200 people. There, in the basement of our simple stone and wooden house, is a paper copy of “GEB” starting back at me, with a glint in its eye and a grin on the cover.
Having been diving in since then but was tickled by the synchronicity between inner and outer words, technology and analog, meeting at such point!
Hi John - good to hear from you again! Glad to know that the creative impulse lives on - not every inspiring nudge needs to become physically manifested ;-) And I liked your anecdote - somehow, as you say, the inner & outer worlds may be conspiring amongst themselves ... and now with quantum tech interacting with the quantum universe/reality, who knows what weirdness is around the corner - or perhaps already with us now! Synchronicity may be the word for the future ;-)
Staying sane is a great endeavour for me right now.
Yes, 'the Kingdom of Heaven was always within.' But how to keep it safe in a time as turbulent as now seems to be an acrobatic 'tour de force!' What you postulate is so true backed up by my intuition.
It has become almost unbearable to enter social media, will it ever cease?
I have always said 'Beauty is my guidance,' and I still insist on staying faithful to it.....
Yes, like you state 'our intuitive perception' it has to grow stronger and stronger.
Thanks so much Kingsley for this very timely essay posting. I'll let it sink in and see how it will influence my somewhat dire mood of the moment!
NB. A Tale to finish I remember from somewhere in one of your more recent books!!! :)))
As the 'theatre of the absurd' outside becomes more surreal, it will become a natural response to seek the sanity & peace within ... you can't 'break the spell' by fighting it.. only by choosing your own genuine path.... Yes, I've used such tales many times - they've accompanied me through my own path :-)
This tale was told in 'The Magic Monastery' by Idris Shah.
And it's such a great tale! :-) All the tales in Breaking the Spell are from traditional sources....
Catharina, at around ten o'clock last night, as it was growing dusk, I heard a thrush singing, and it gladdened my heart. May is such a beautiful month. There is so much to appreciate and be grateful for in this life experience.
Greetings Kingsley!
Thanks for such a beautiful and timely article! I had the good fortune to speak with you a few times several years ago about a book idea. The book never progressed, externally at least, but the same creative thread that spawned it lives on.
Allow me to interesting anecdote that I obtain can deliver succinctly. In the midst of traveling Japan I was simultaneously involved with every deep, ontological ally oriented dialogue with AI. Trying as much as possible to keep my detached and pure autonomous awareness while talking to the machine. The theme of recursion, kept coming, over and over, and for weeks Hofstadter’s book, “Gödel, Escher, Bach” kept coming up in the conversation.
A few weeks later, in the bardo realm of travel and semantic overdrive with AI conversations, we land in remote East Sumbawa, at a tiny surf village with 200 people. There, in the basement of our simple stone and wooden house, is a paper copy of “GEB” starting back at me, with a glint in its eye and a grin on the cover.
Having been diving in since then but was tickled by the synchronicity between inner and outer words, technology and analog, meeting at such point!
Hi John - good to hear from you again! Glad to know that the creative impulse lives on - not every inspiring nudge needs to become physically manifested ;-) And I liked your anecdote - somehow, as you say, the inner & outer worlds may be conspiring amongst themselves ... and now with quantum tech interacting with the quantum universe/reality, who knows what weirdness is around the corner - or perhaps already with us now! Synchronicity may be the word for the future ;-)
Well worth revisiting again…
One hopes so!