Here's somethin maybe I shouldn't mention ... though it is an interesting observatioon that I haven't quite phrased this way b4 ... anyway, yesterday, while channel surfing, I caught a little bit of 'Beauty & the Beast' and they was discussing a situation where a wife had been diagnosed with PND and the husband was not handling it all that well and had become emotionally unsupportive etc ... and they were saying how 'unacceptable' his behaviour was and other highly colourful, blameful adjectives ... and this morning as I'm laying in bed (listening to 'Rubycon' on CD), it suddenly occurs to me ... WHY the distinction? ... they are both experiencing emotional difficulties which they aren't handling all that well just at the moment ... so why is hers 'acceptable' and his not ... is it simply because her emotional difficulty has been labelled with an official name ... isn't that just a tad arbitrary ...

I guess it's all part of the blame game we're taught to play constantly almost from birth ... even though, ultimately, blame is a most unproductive & divisive emotion ... hmmm ...

{A little later ... if we consider such matters honestly for any length of time we soon find ourselves deep into imponderables that the ordinary mind can never hope to wrap itself around ... one could use that as a daily mantra ...}

A few more emails ... of the lengthy variety ... :)

Plus added a couple more foliage sites ... starting with the 'Nature's Palette' ...

Interesting story on Burke's last night ... click

As well as this one ...

Another nteresting point of view - click :)

Saw these animals on a calendar today ... the Christmas stuff is already out for consumers to consume ... :)

Just when you thought nothing could overtake Iraq as the story-of-the-day ... click

More great photos ... click

In a very funny mood late in the evening (after watching 'Greystoke' & reading a bit more of The New Sins, which mentions The Matrix around page 56 or so) ... "One day a man wanted to be brave and random but his mummy wouldn't let him. So, he walked down to the beach and screamed into the sand. Then the choir in his head started singing that old familiar song as the puddle disappeared ..." {or the choir disappeared as the puddle started to sing ...}

... must transcribe those few pages at some stage ... or just go out & buy the **** book & read it 4 yourself ...

"Then he asked for a voyage with no reason or rhyme."

[  October 20, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Money is almost always the second nightmare of life."

Interesting lyrics heard this morning (just after waking from another epic dream - about a surreal soccer match where the half time score was 8 to 6 and I never did get 2c the second half ) ... click

Found an interesting Siddhartha page ... and I was just reading it the other day ... click

Toying with the idea of a little trip tomorrow to somewhere like here ...

Sprouts

Rubycon

[  October 21 to 23, 2002   '




Today's mantra: Um ... not really in the mood for such things ... though maybe more than ever, this is when I need one ...

Tough few days ... not sure if I'll share the gory details with you all ... hmmm ...

Did visit the Olinda rhodo gardens on Monday and they are something else ... click - though the true colours are only hinted at by my little camera ...

Wrote an abolute tome as I wandered round the gardens ... oh what the heck ... may as well send it off into cyberspace ... click

... and if anything today is tougher ... for family reasons ... probably won't add them to that list ... but some good may (eventually) come out of all this ... one might say that abt the state of the world as a whole ...

Quote of the day: "He's your father ... he's just not very good at ..."
"Living among humans."

[  October 24, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "In the beginning, there was no beginning and then things got a bit more settled and people evolved from sheep."

Click here for a few more ...

Got out of the habit of doing this journal ... maybe that's a sign ... :)

Oh yes, by the by, I'm still on forced meds ... hmmm ... then after all that I flick open Siddhartha and on page 141 is 'The people of the world, the ordinary people, were still alien to him ...' :)

Yes, the review board didn't really buy into my theory that just maybe (some) psychotic experiences are due to telepathic interference from aliens ... I suppose it IS a somewhat scary thought for most people who've never expereinced it ... (but how much comfort is there in the traditional 'explanation' of the causes of schizophrenia, manic-depression etc ...) Hmmm ... (never really thought to mention starseeds etc) ...

Another interesting point-of-view ... click :)

Here's a site I found while typing up a few humorous memories about trying to explain to a Mental health Review Board one of my pet theories that maybe (some) psychotic expereinces are the result of telepathic communication from aliens. May have sealed my fate. :)

Anyways, here's the link - click

Quote of the day: "If you have anything to say, just keep your mouth shut."

[  October 25 to 28, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "This is the middle of the beginning of the end."

Monks in Flinders for Cup week ... click

Off 2 Cowes again ... amy take a few photos ...

Great stuff on CNNNN again last evening ... laughed aloud several times ... angry old man solves crisis in mid-east with letter to the editor ... Let's tilt Australia ... Mega Memory Loss (for corporate execs called to testify) - 'so effective you'll forget you ever used it' ... :)

Plus 'This is something every good parent should constantly worry about' ... :)

Hey, they have a site ... www.cnnnn.com surprisingly :)

Away from this computer for nearly three days ...

Lemme see, what did I scribble down ... well click here & scroll down to several entries beginnin with 'I think we say a lot of things' ...

Also found heaps of sites ... well, a couple anyway ...

www.craterlakes.com.au

Federation Square looks worth a visit or two ...

Cool sites

Couldn't find Saturday's Leunig but this one ... :)

Refuge

Gently Whispered

Zen miracles: Finding peace in an insane world

Plus watched 'Pleasantville' again ... and it occurs to me ... one of the inhabitants mentions the colour red ... ah, but IF you live in a black & white universe, how the heck would you know what red is ... :)

Tripe writing :)

Quote of the day: click & scroll down to 'I've trained myself not to laugh.'

PLus this from the tv guide ...

For goodness sake, people. Please listen up because I don't ever wnat to hear of any of you making the same mistake the dolts on Stargate make. If you are going to induce a supernova by using a trans-dimensional wormhole in the space-time continuum to transfer the mass of a sun into into a black hole so you can wipe out a fleet of Gou'ald batleships, please be aware that the resulting nuclear explosion and sudden expansion of stellar matter may adversely affect the sub-space window created by your hyperdrive. This may corrupt your hyperspace navigational data and you could end up millions of light-years away in a corner of space that is not in your Melways.

Also scribbled down a few thoughts which every much parallel what Kay Jamison says in her excellent book

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[  October 29, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "If somebody is treating you badly, it simply indicates that they are in pain. So, the really, really, really enlightened response is to have compassion for that pain." {at this point inhuman history, few people have even contemplated this option}

Trip to Sherbrooke ... remind me to upload the wildflower images and the other 'stuff' ...

I sure picked the perfect day. It was a very sunny and windless most of the time. I started off in a thick shirt and windcheater but soon got down to just a T-shirt with the effort of climbing up a quite steep track. Then I had milk & cookies in one of the picnic grounds ...

The milk was actually that banana smoothie I told you about. They make it from soy-milk and it's absolutely delicious. The cookies were those choc-chip ones from Churchill Island which somehow managed to survive the long bustrip from Cowes and then another couple of bus trips today without being eaten. :)

There's something about eating outdoors ... and honestly, it was so warm in the sun I could easily have dozed off and I reckon I would have got sunburn if I had. However, I did some yoga stretches right there on the picnic table before walking back into the forest where it felt several degrees cooler.

Saw some lovely blue wildflowers which this photo doesn't really do justice to ... click

Oh yes, almost forgot - I also found that some of the crimson Rosellas are very tame ... near the entrance to Sherbrooke picnic ground they will perch on your head our outstretched arms if you have seed for them ... :)

Quote of the day:
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter."

Click here for more ...

Or here - www.1famousquote.com

From the weekend ... click here for a memorable WAV file ... :)

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[  October 30, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Ripples in the wavelength. No escape from reality. In front of me, I see a nice day."

A few more emails about various things ... I sure slept well last night - nearly ten hours ... and very vivid dreams ... :)

Sanctuaries

A search for the book tosses up this interesting page

Plus this one ... www.calmcentre.com ... :)

www.do-not-zzz.com

Interesting lyrics ... 'from here to there to everywhere' ... click

... plus 'I believe I might be having fun' ... :)

Interesting blog - with links to many others ...

- Tachyon Energy New Paradigm David Wagner

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[  October 31, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Human behaviour is the mystery of mysteries."

Here's one link about tachyon energy ... :)

Another very vivid & surreal dream last night ... I'm on a beach with some eskimos and it's still light late in the night and we're making 'beds' in the sand and I comment on how surprisingly comfy they are ... and then their main source of food is gathered from some filters which collect plankton ... :)

Many more details that seem to have slippped my mind ...

Fabulous episode of Global Village last night - about a place I had never heard of ... Mai San ... and the mysterious cryptic hermit who lived there most of his life ... click {though these images don't quite capture the 'feel' of the place with its temples & caves and the
gravity-defying rock cairns etc ...}

Testing ...

Some black humour - not from Mr Leunig for once - click

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