November 24th, 2012 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual) ·
Sam Harris recently released a book on the topic of free will.
I haven’t read the book yet, but watched a presentation he gave of ideas from his book.
Traditionally there are three positions offered…
October 18th, 2012 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual) ·
I haven’t been lucid dreaming for a while now, at least a few months…
August 26th, 2012 in Earth (Literature) and Water (Personal) ·
I’m finally getting around to trying a course with Coursera.
Coursera was founded by a couple of Computer Science professors from Stanford University, and its mission is to make “the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it”.
It launched in April this year, and has already had over a million students…
July 27th, 2012 in Water (Personal) ·
I started to play chess in 1993 vaguely seriously. The trigger was writing a chess program and finding that it could thrash me…
April 15th, 2012 in Water (Personal) ·
It’s been interesting to observe since turning 40 the power of the words “too old” in my mind. Too old, too young, age is just a concept, but still has such power in our society…
September 22nd, 2011 in Metal (Technical) and Water (Personal) ·
I may live at the southern tip of Africa, but I’ve been on Hawaii time for a long time. For years my circadian rhythms have seen me going to sleep in the very early hours of the morning and waking up similarly late…
June 15th, 2011 in Water (Personal) ·
For the past few weeks I’ve been practising Egoscue exercises. Do I want six-pack abs and a tight bun?
No… Well at least not enough to do anything about it. Egoscue is something else entirely.
Since I can remember I’ve been noticeably skew, bent and twisted…
June 14th, 2011 in Fire (Social), Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual) ·
This week Nicole Daedone gave a talk at TEDx San Francisco on orgasmic meditation (embedded below)…
May 1st, 2011 in Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual) ·
I wrote a post for the Ethical Co-op newsletter briefly mentioning gratitude. Since it’s short, I’ll quote it here in full:
Gratitude is a key to happiness…
February 18th, 2011 in Earth (Literature), Fire (Social), Water (Personal) and Wood (Spiritual) ·
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to Bearing Soul, billed as “An enviro-mental Exploration through Song, Music, Story and Heart”. This wasn’t the usual entertainment, a show at a theatre, a film. It was a friend, Dan Tree, doing just what he claimed…
