Having read Douglas Rushkoff’s excellent appraisal of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I felt I would like to add some thoughts. There is a new consciousness crystallising, and Rushkoff said something which (as usual) was very insightful, in that the mainstream media are having trouble getting to grips with the (r)evolution because they can’t see [...]
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Thanks People!
Hey all, this is Guy James – I just wanted to post something personal here to let you know there is a human being behind the possibly automatic-seeming-streaming stuff that appears here most daze. And also to say ‘Thank You’ if you subscribe to the blog or regularly check back here to see what’s new. [...]
Kill Your Practice
Buddhists call what they do when they sit down to meditate ‘practice’. Of course all words are imperfect when we enter the tricky realm of the non-dual but I really feel this term is misleading if we are wanting to enter the Absolute in our meditation. The idea of meditation being something one practices and [...]
Art
What is the purpose of language? To communicate. What is the purpose of art? To communicate that which language cannot.
Humility
Be thankful for your imperfect human body, because if our bodies were as beautiful as our soul, we would be insufferably conceited.
Just BEING is a Revolutionary Act
By which I mean, just ‘being’ without doing anything, thinking anything in particular, or trying to be anyone special. In this way we are not ‘productive’, we are not caught in the trap of ‘becoming’, we are not placing hope in an illusory ‘future’ which acts as a drug to stop us seeing the reality [...]
Resonance of Place
How much does location play a part in your sound? “I am fascinated by the resonance certain places can have, which invests them with almost heroic proportions. The very name of a place itself can inspire awe and credibility. There are countless examples of this in American folk and pop music and beyond and I [...]
This is the News
I just realised what ‘The News’ is – it is not primarily a record of the day’s most important events but is actually a presentation of a point of view about a single subject. That subject is Death and the opinion you are invited to have is that it is a Bad Thing. Look at [...]
Musical Dissonance
Just pondering how rubbish it is when you meet someone new and they look through your cds or iTunes or whatever and say ‘oh wow, you’ve got this’, referring to the one song or album you absolutely hate which has somehow remained within your collection due to your being too lazy to get rid of [...]
Democratic capitalism?
“Democratic capitalism” cannot exist……because capitalism beats democracy every time, like scissors beats paper or stone beats scissors. photo credit: Brainless Angel Incoming search terms:democratic capitalism
