Man, it's been excellent these last days, but also really intense. I'm managing to do a lot of good things, though there is also a great deal of learning and growth that is ocurring simultaneously.
here is an interesting video about a brain scientist who has a stroke and then gives her person story on how those effects translate to her life and study.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU
20 min long, heart touching.
Hi Folks,
Just a short update to let you all know that I am in Portland now. I've been here just over a week and already in this time much has happened.
Well, I had many other things to post about. Personal developments, leaving Amsterdam and how that felt, further thoughts from the last posts about "Patterns" etc.
But instead I have bad news to tell.
My mother fell this weekend, breaking her her femur above the knee. Hospitalized, minimum recovery time 1.5 months, operation was yesterday and that went well. Hopefully she will regain well, especially her mobility and knee flexibility.
The stimulation of awareness is, in my belief, the single most fundamentally important aspect of ourselves we need to develop.
Through awareness we ask questions, we learn, we develop our own thoughts, we become educated - wise even. The lack of awareness is the root from which all problems arise. War, environmental problems, disease, suffering, fear... all of these negative aspects of our existence can all be solved, resolved or at least understood [and thus accepted and healed] through the knowledge that awareness implies.
hello everyone!
Well, in 3 weeks I'll be moving out of Amsterdam, moving my mother to the south of France - and I will be in Portland Oregon at or around the 15th of April! So now I'm also in a total vortex of rapidly moving water, so much to organize! Crazy times.
In parallel to all this, a good friend of mine [Cory] has organized a showing of my art work at a festival in Canada! You can view the information on the festival here:
For quite some time I have been interested in theories that discuss the balancing between right and left brain thinking, and the translation of ideas from one field to another.
Ken Wilber's book [my review] opened up a new domain of philosophical thinking. Through this interest I have heard a great deal mentioned recently about Steve McIntosh's model of cultural evolution - so I ordered a copy and sat down for a good read.
Just watched an interesting BBC Horizon program on rational thought.
Highlights of the program include:
* Loss complex
* Post-decision rationalization
* Priming
* Precognition
* Loss complex:
Hello!
Well, long silence just then from me. Things have either been shifting so quickly, week-to-week to really pin down a blog report, or I've just been very busy working on things!
Because of necessity [mothering invention], I finally got my www.chedal.org website back up!
It's a very simple page, nothing fancy, but it serves my purposes just fine at the moment and gives a good front end to my artwork.
