Four-Fold Way I was pointed to this site from Dave Pollard’s blog (How to save the world – see the list of sites to the right). Angeles Arrien has developed the Four-Fold Way. It sets out four ways – the way of the warrior, the way of the healer, the way of the teacher and … Read more
Treasures in full: Shakespeare’s plays, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg’s Bible This is well worth a visit. I have to confess to being a bit of a library geek. I love looking at books. When I was a student (many years ago!) I used to spend hours in the special collection in the University Library looking … Read more
One of the key things about Gurdjieff (I posted about him a couple of days ago, here) is that at the core of his writings is esoteric knowledge. Is it any wonder then, that I should be sitting at breakfast the next morning reading, and came across an interesting fact? I was browsing through an … Read more
I have been interested in the work of G I Gurdjieff for a few years now. I first came across the name when reading the biography of Robert Fripp written by Eric Tamm (available for free download here – well worth reading). I then discovered that Keith Jarrett was also heavily influenced by Gurjieff’s work. … Read more
I’ve been reading Bob Dylan’s first volume of autobiography recently. I have just a few pages to go. Dylan is an artist who I have better understood as I got older. I remember first hearing so many songs that I thought were preferable as cover versions by other people – ‘All Along the Watchtower’ by … Read more
I am reading a book by Nick Owen called “The magic of metaphor”. It is a collection of stories designed to engage, inspire and transform the listener and the reader. He looks at the whole idea of story-telling and pulls out the power of the story-teller when giving a story from memory rather than reading … Read more
These five key questions were suggested to me by Ben Shoshan, who is a mind set / executive coach working for Si Group. They are meant to be used when something negative happens, to reframe the situation, and change the usual reaction: 1. What could be good about this?2. What’s not perfect, yet?3. Who can … Read more
Stefan Beyst has been in contact with me. He has a webpage which sets out some of the shortcomings of Freud’s work on Leonardo da Vinci. It is a beautiful page, with lovely illustrations, and a well-argued set of points. Stefan is one of a large number of people who have been looking at this … Read more
I regularly read the weblog of Greg Perry. Today he posted a quote from Henry David Thoreau which drew me across to his weblog where does regular posts of extracts from the journals of Thoreau. Today’s quote is great – go and have a look. This quote resonates with me, because I am just lifting … Read more
I recently finished reading a book of poems by Douglas Barbour called “Fragmenting Body etc”. Douglas is from Canada. The book is published by Salt which is a joint UK / Australia press (read an excerpt here) – the output from Salt over the last few years has been impressive. I really enjoyed reading this … Read more