Introduction (Footnotes are linked to a webpage which also contains a bibliography). This essay is about Money and the Monetary System that functions in the background of our everyday economics. This system is a hegemony throughout the world, almost invisible. It is the water in which we swim. Capitals indicate this hegemonic system, that Jem … More Money Matters
From the Climate Psychology Alliance I receive a journal, with a variety of contributions of many kinds, worth reading. It is called Explorations, and the latest issue has a theme: Widening the Frame. Worth a read. I would like to “widen the frame” to include the hegemony of a money creation economy that starts with … More Every Frame has an Edge
This is a moment observed in a coffee shop that happens to be called “Detour”. Detour The table shakes and laptop listsAn event inspires actionHe’s folding paper, and tucks his body as he bends to reach the footunder which the paper will be put. Wait, no, lift the water glassset aside on nearby shelftipped water … More Each Moment
Inspired by, though not adhering to Iain McGilchrist: The Matter With Things[i]. Rather than getting lost in the myriad twigs of his detail, I find I am more interested in the “unthought knowns” that follow, a take-off from his monumental endeavor. For reference, you might read the book, or see this picture of the contents … More Presencing Practice – aka Process not Things
We are in a mess, a muddle, a great complicated complexity of difficulties [pandemic, climate, inequality, black lives, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, decolonisations, oceans full of plastic, more]. We say the list is all connected, we try to access feelings and thoughts that will allow us to feel OK about what we do next. What … More Causative factor or derivative symptom? What should we do about Money?
Originally this was written to the Climate Psychology Alliance, if that makes aspects unclear, please add a comment and I can reply. The endnotes did not copy and paste, so rather than spend hours on technical adjustments, I have just pasted the references below the text. Money Matters: Economics, Omniscience, and Why? This is intended … More Money Matters, and so does Joy
As uncertainties mount, we, us, people, beings, are all being thrown into more and more awareness of our “raw experience”. I can’t say “we” to speak for they. I say “I’ but want to mean “me”, the part of this whole universe of living force that is in me as I am in it, and … More Raw Experience, Reactions and Responses.
In a previous post, a personal essay, I wrote: What if we truly could feel ourselves as nodes that have emerged in the field of being, consciously aware of the perspective we choose to see, consciously aware that making the choice limits us? Here I take up thoughts, many of which have emerged in Google … More Nodes in the Field of Being
A haiku: Breath of Life. ProprioceptionMarks my breathing silentlyEyes see buttercups. I wrote that just over a year ago on my other blog. In this year of change, I find it becomes easier to allow mind to just fall into body, or whatever it is that is meant by an understanding that is not cognitively … More Sixth Sense, True sensing
This post is a personal essay – comment would be welcome. Out of Sight of the Shore those who seek new land have to spend a long time out of sight of the shore [Andre Gide] This year my thinking has changed, transitioned to something new, a different perspective from which to view what happens. … More To Value Uncertainty in Being
Transitional Space: The In-between of Identity, Culture and Community 