Author’s note:

Fancy a tour of a different world view from the electrical man who started in this community going about on his bicycle with a small cardboard box in the guise of a tool box..?

…and including images of delightful small beings who just happened to be passing by,
creations of two of our talented potters… my wife Jacky and daughter Mia,
to complement the throw of words and ideas,

So, would you…?
Well, please enter…
and welcome…..!

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Please forgive me if I talk of things as if they were universally true.
I know those are just my own ideas and not everyone will go along with them.
It’s a quite simplistic view of things.

This concerns the human race, not individuals, because individuals are unique and all have their own various ways of working which can differ greatly from one another,
but the human race, as a species, can be said to work and evolve as one,
in one prevailing manner.

Grateful for the luxury of being able to write and philosophise.

1. The Cause of Things

Ours is not primarily a mechanical life,
not primarily a physical world obeying laws of physics and mechanics,
and surviving by the same.

We, humans, behave as if it were such a world, but really it is not.
In fact nothing in our universe is primarily mechanical or primarily obeying laws of matter;
not the sun,
not the planets, or any celestial objects,
not our bodies,
not the plants and trees and stones
not our earthly atmosphere,
not our ecological system,
not our evolution
and even though we have worked out a lot of how, mechanically, those things work,
they are primarily not mechanical.

But we, humans, for the most, explain things as if they were primarily mechanical.

I mean that a mechanical basis is a cause-and-effect basis,
one that follows laws such as physics or biology or psychological laws,
so not necessarily mechanical in the sense of physical parts working and moving together, but mechanical in the sense that one or more action or occurrence produces a result,
a cause produces an effect,
or, much more interesting to us humans, an effect can be produced by a cause.
How exciting this is…!

And so, we, for the most part, explain things on a cause-and-effect basis,
all things and everything..!
Pretty much all or nearly all of our understanding is contained within this one model of cause-and-effect,
this includes such things as biology,
psychology,
spirituality,
management of all kinds, people and things,
religion,
education (schools, families),
engineering of course,
more…?

The sun emits heat and light because of such and such action and re-action within it.
The planets revolve and travel because of…..a big bang…(?),

We don’t know how life started but we’ve worked out some of its very early mechanics,
and we know for instance that water is essential to it.
We know how plants and animals (including humans) grow and how the various parts of their physical being work and interact.
We know about gravity and we know of its effects.
And we understand about personal relationship and health and the laws which govern them,
cause-and-effect laws.

We know all this because we, humans, have worked it out by means of our mind, and observation too via our mind,
our beautiful minds, that we hold, and rely on so dearly.

And so, a direct result of this mechanical understanding is that we also and mostly tend to reduce things and all to a set format or a system,
a technique or a series of particular actions.
Our way is to basically attempt to break things down to a recipe in order to improve our lives because we can then repeat the process ad infinitum and Bob’s your uncle we’re sorted..!
That’s the aim, that is the desired result: to sort things out for ourselves.

But using mechanics as the one model for living our lives is not really improving our lives at all, or life around us for that matter.
We are in fact depleting things of meaning and sense, depleting them of their unique origin and essence, and by that depleting our lives of meaning.
We attempt to reduce things to a function, a singleness of purpose, a sole reason to be,
to box them in and imprison them, (and imprison ourselves by the same token),
in short, we attempt to control things and control life…!

This is the one way that we as a species comprehend our lives,
and we feel that we have made great progress since our beginning.

But our mind is also our demise, our mind alone is not enough.

Because we have developed this fixation of working things out by mechanical means
we only, and almost solely, stubbornly sink ourselves down into this one-dimensional world.

Mechanics is the basis of our playground, that yes..!
It is the way that we can measure ourselves and survive physically and mentally.
We give our babies and toddlers a playpen and toys
so that they can have the experience of things,
and also be occupied,
they can find out about themselves and their boundaries.

We, “grown-ups“, have been given a universe for that same purpose,
complete with a homeland,
a home planet, fully operational, even if apparently less and less so.
This is our playpen, our practice environment;
what for the most, occupies our mind.
So, for us to think, within this context, that we’ve mastered anything at all is kind of silly,
or just perhaps as endearing as when we see our youngsters discovering their world and measuring themselves against it.

Or,
for us to think, within that context, that we are so powerful and in charge of things, that we could even destroy or alter the course of a planet is kind of preposterous,
preposterous because there is so much more at play than our very limited senses can perceive,
not that I know what is at play, but I just believe there is, or it seems to me obvious that there is more.
And within that context the human species would seem to be at toddler stage if we make the analogy with the evolution of a person.

Thinking that we’ve worked out so many things, that we are so powerful, that the world is ours and that we know so much, and can control so much… is tragically comical.

Just to illustrate how our behaviour is very young:

• We still go to war with each other and kill each other as a way to affirm ourselves,
• we do psychological wars (relationship wars or battles), ie. endeavour to control each other or attempt to protect ourselves from being controlled,
• We try to overcome and overpower each other, out of insecurity,
• we accumulate riches and stamp them as ours, control again,
• we want something, we get it, and that makes us feel powerful and sometimes omnipotent,
• we so-called “invent” super new gadgets, we are very proud of ourselves, and we go on using them regardless, when we should know just by looking back that we don’t really know as much as we like to think we do about consequences.
• regardless of the fact that we’ve been there before, we make very little use of our past experience to inform our present actions,
• we occupy lands and territories and claim them as ours and even oppress (kill..?) the natives
• do we look after what we’ve been given..? (our environment…?)
• one (lucky) part of the world has yet to extend itself and feed and provide decent and healthy living conditions to the other part of the world, instead of perpetuating the inequality of wealth distribution despite the easy means and resources readily available to overcome this painful imbalance,
  and this for a long time now,
  or this could be expressed as: how come one part of the world is starving and afflicted with poor health and poor living conditions while the other part is essentially thriving..?
• is it true that, for the most, and throughout their history, human beings have devised ever new systems and made-up things the main purpose of which is to improve their own lives, but not necessarily the lives of others around them…? and even often to the detriment of other lives around them..?
• there are still oppressed people or groups of people in the world, in the human community and not necessarily very far away from you or me now, oppressed by their fellow human beings, brothers and sisters, for reasons of power.

What else…?

• Ah! yes, we’ve cracked the lock, and we very excitedly have entered Artificial Intelligence technology and we are now opening the door (big time) to it and as very intelligent and responsible people we are also making sure that we provide very solid safety fences indeed by establishing laws and regulations so that it can never be used in a bad way by bad people for bad purposes (and we say this with very straight faces) which is so reassuring to hear…. so that, as a builder friend of mine would say:
  “what could possibly go wrong…?”
  I can only assume that some of us have not seen Terminator…? !

2. An Inspirational Lunch

Once, a long time ago, working in Motorola, lunch break, looking out of a window into a courtyard…
There are very large metal pipes feeding into some underground machinery, and a few very, very large bolts holding things together,
that I am observing, absentmindedly.
Then, in a moment of unknown illumination the thought comes to me that, if it weren’t for God, it would not have been possible for that nut to have travelled in its revolving motion along that bolt, and get it tight, ever..!
That nut would not have been able to make that journey across that very large machine screw, not without the divine input.

I give it the name of “god” or “divine”, likely because of my Christian background, but I am not attached to the name or the form.
I mean that thing that is other than human flesh and bones and matter, other than mechanical cause-and-effect system, outside our causal world,
that realm where life and connection come from, which surrounds us on all sides and through.
Meaning that I am not speaking of a faith or a religion, but speaking of this “other” and “greater” than what the eyes can see.

And so, no matter how clever the human mind,
no matter how precise and accurate the human engineering, and precise and accurate it can be indeed,
without this other world’s input, divine I call it, that we bathe in,
that bolt would never have budged a fraction of a fraction of a millimetre,
so let alone planets going round and round.
Without the divine presence all would be inert and lifeless.
All would instantly stop on the spot.
It would be like having pulled the plug, and all the machineries would come to a sudden stop,
including nature, terrestrial and cosmic, and human machinery,
or even perhaps all would instantly disappear.

3. Deceptive Appearances

Earlier I mentioned that our aim was to sort things out for ourselves,
that is, in the mechanical sense that I have been describing.
But really this mechanical attempt at sorting out is a kind of a distortion of a deeper longing to be re-united with our source, our spiritual selves,
a longing to be saved from this causal-only world.

I believe that what we all want and strive for is to be saved from our human struggle, to stop the suffering, stop the sorrow, and find peace and harmony.
That we strive to be saved, as in spiritually saved.
I believe this to be universal and a built-in part of our human make up.
And I understand that this has a religious tone to it, however it is not meant as religious but as spiritual.

But because we, humans, somehow see life as primarily mechanical, we attempt to be saved by means of mechanics, ie. by science; the science of working things out.. working life out, the cause-and-effect science, which will never ever achieve anything other than creating more mechanical issues (which we will in turn solve by means of more mechanics), promoting more scientific research and discoveries of more wonderful ways to make our lives easier, longer, and as physically painless as possible,
more ways to save our planet (!),
more ways to educate our children and ways to relate with one another,
and ways to be more spiritually or psychologically evolved,
but which also keeps us in our ignorance precisely because we remain in that box of cause-and-effect,
attempting to obtain the desired divine effect from a manufactured cause, a manipulated cause,
and being unaware and oblivious to the fact that the cause, the real cause of things as they are, was neither never manufactured nor mechanical in the first place and is beyond our reach, at present.
The only cause that we, as a humankind, can comprehend is the one that our eyes can see in this narrowly perceived world of ours which to my sense is only a phantom of the real thing.

We basically cannot, not possible, reproduce a divine effect purely from our causal world by following a recipe of cause-and-effect,
but we sure are trying very hard…!

We’ve been given a mind, oh yes,
and we’ve been busy using it, oh yes,
so much so that this is mostly all we’ve used,
to work things out, to find strategies and systems for this and that,
all those strategies and systems that we use in all areas of life.
All those strategies and workings out are all means to an end,
mechanical means, cause-and-effect means, to an elusive end.

All those cause-and-effect laws that we are so addicted to finding out and exploring have a common thread:
they are never ending, literally going on forever and ever to the end of time.
They only lead to more of the same, more cause-and-effect laws, taking us nowhere but to endless sameness, disguised as progress,
cycles of pleasure and suffering followed by pleasure and suffering,
cities of never-ending process of progress and collapse followed by success and failure,
and the wheel is turning round and round.
It’s like the remedy contains its own disease, and we overcome the disease with the same remedy…

What I am saying is that it seems to me that we, humans, are primarily focussed on this cause-and-effect mechanism thinking that this is where the solution to our problems lies;
that if we can just think of the right cause then the “hallelujah” effect will follow, and we’ll have arrived…!
We, as humankind, are focussed on a result-oriented strategy, and we seem to think that technology will save us, material technology, psychological technology, spiritual technology, ie. anything that works according to the principle of cause-and-effect.
We just want results from our actions,
We want..!
Genuinely but childishly thinking that ‘want gets‘…

Obviously, this is a one-sided view of our situation, focusing on one overriding aspect and therefore probably on the unfair side, because there is a lot of good that has been, and is being done by some inspired human beings, or inspired groups of humans, and this talk of mine seems to be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
And we also have our feelings and intuition, it is true, which we use in our relationship and also in our research.
However, it would seem that an overly important attention and emphasis is given to the mechanical side of life.

Yes, mechanical means do work to some extent but they do not work by themselves.
But we believe that they do work by their own merit and through our own merit,
hence why we try to suss out the workings of them all in order to replicate them again and again,
forgetting, or unaware, that mechanics only work with the divine input, and without it there is no functionality, none whatsoever, no matter how high-tech the means are.

Further, this is not to say that our mechanical means are to be discarded.
This is more about the effect of our reliance on those mechanical means, this cause-and-effect system.
So, it is not about the means themselves but about the investment we have on them, the disease within the remedy,
about our dependence and our intrinsic and unquestioned belief that this is the way to go,
and about our blindness to what is staring us in the face, this other side of our world, but which we insist in not acknowledging and welcoming and being open to, as a human race.

So, for instance the source of our fear that our own support structure, the planet eco-system, is crumbling down all around us, would be found in our lust for power, ill and selfish intentions, but not, as we seem to think, in our actions.
But we think that our actions alone generated this seeming collapse,
and so naturally we try to undo our actions with………. more actions, perceived as remedial actions.
The question is: are we recycling because we’re afraid of what’s coming..?
because we’re trying to undo what we’ve done, out of fear..?
or because we’ve truly come to our senses…?
I’m not sure that we actually have come to our senses just quite yet.
I have this feeling that we’re acting out of fear and therefore still in the old model of cause-and-effect,
endeavouring to achieve a last-minute undoing of things by applying more of the same old treatment,
with the same investment in it,
short sighted,
just another turn of the wheel,
but not really realising where our actions came from in the first place.
But by all means let’s keep recycling, re-using and whatever other actions we are now frantically doing,
this can’t do any harm and it shows good will, and good will is always positive.
It’s good in a child’s education..!
Oh my..! This sounds so patronising..!

This is about the fact that our mechanical means are only the tip of an iceberg,
that our world perceived by us as causal-only is really much, much greater than cause-and-effect only.

4. What if..?

What if there are, there is, no human-made result that can bring us peace of mind, peace of being, the ultimate passage to who we are in our depths, that nothing we can do with our hands and mind alone will open the door to what we long for.
What if that peace of mind is not to be found within the boundaries of our mind no matter how far we venture into it,
no matter how far we travel and venture into this physical universe of ours;
that peace of mind lies outside and beyond the working of our minds,
outside our physical universe,
and outside this cause-and-effect perceived world of ours,
that we cannot obtain it by means of devising more and more clever and wonderful devices,
and strategies,
but that we must practice……….……something else.

How about something to do with observation..?
Something to do with observing life around us,
letting ourselves be touched by what we see, hear, touch, smell, taste around us,
observing and seeing or sensing signs,
be alert or be idle, be somnolent or be dreamy,
be receptive or be inconsequential, or just be there casually, but not intervening, and keep observing, and observing, and observing, and observing……..and once we’ve observed for a long, long, long time, we stay put……. and we observe some more,
and more,
and let nature happen, and observe it….
and let nature happen, and observe it…
let the planet and the universe happen, and observe…
be witness…
and observe….

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh……….

It has been said that when you try something new it might feel awkward first, even wrong at times, but one must persist, like go against the flow.
The wisdom lies in persisting with the right kind of thing, and who’s to tell what’s right…?
Ah! well we do have inner senses to guide us so we must practice using them too.

Well, I wonder how our planet is going to react to that kind of attitude;
how nature, including us who are part of nature, is going to fare with that kind of behaviour, the observing behaviour.
It sure will take great courage and craziness to even contemplate contemplation for humankind.
What a crazy idea…!

OK Wake up…!!
we do have a mind and we do have bodies and hands and opposing thumbs and feet and eyes and all the rest,
so, am I talking utter non-sense..?
HELP…!!
I guess I’ve come to the end of my circle and the end of my routine, and no divine touch in sight…!
I can see I’ve got hands and feet and all, and I’ve got plenty common sense too,
so yes those physical things have got to have a purpose and a meaning.
We humans have got to have a purpose and a meaning…outside this endless cycle of pleasure and pain.

5. Break Time..!

Once, could be 30 years ago, I was working in our good old sanctuary where some refurbishing was going on. There was a lady called Muriel, Scottish I believe, who was part of the team, and part of the community.
I was in the loft sorting out some wiring and I could hear that Muriel was down in the main room below.
It was just her there at that moment.
I needed something so instead of going down and ask I thought I would call for Muriel to help me, so I shouted “Muriel…!” “Muriel…!” “Can you hear me….?!”
no answer, so I shouted again: “Muriel..!” “Muriel..!”
and then I heard some kind of hesitant voice responding “yes…!”
and I went on to tell her what I needed and eventually she helped me.
Later on when I came down again Muriel said that she was all freaked out when I called because she didn’t know where it was coming from. She was looking around but there was no one and she could hear her name being called. She could be funny at times, and she said “ I thought it was god calling me..!”

It makes me laugh every time I think of it because I can imagine her looking around in a kind of a panic wondering what the heck was going on :-) :-)

…..alright, back to our story….

6. Meaning Well

Ah! but there is intention, an important component, an essential component.
In fact intention is all.
I would say that intention is more than a major factor in anything that we undertake.
It is paramount, and it contains everything that will follow.
But it may be misunderstood and underrated.
Intention goes hand in hand with outcome, although the former is in the past, at the roots and in the seed, and the latter is in the future, the plant and the flower.

So, this would be how intention defines outcome,
because outcome mainly grows out of intention, and mostly not from the actions in between the two.

Perhaps, I’ll concede that humans may have something to do with the seeming collapse of our eco-system,
but it is not because of our actions.
Not because of our actions because actions themselves do not generate much meaningful outcome.
It would be because of our insatiable thirst for power and control, contained within our intention,
what’s driving us.
Now, that would generate a meaningful outcome; not the expected one though.
So, more actions will not solve the issue unless we come to understand the intention behind the actions.
It is like saying that our actions are a true and direct reflection of our
intentions,
and so, with this in mind, it becomes obvious that simply to change an action without changing our attitude (intention) will not modify the general outcome.
Or, it is like saying that will power only will not (or very little) change the outcome, in the long run.
Therefore, different actions coming from the same untouched intention will not produce different results.

The very fact that we would think ourselves as so powerful to be responsible for the collapse of our eco-system is at the root of the problem.
And regardless of any truth in it, that is pretty much pure self-inflation and that creates or contains its own collapse.

That is where we fall.

For all I know, it would seem that we’ve not understood that fall into grandiosity, 
well, obviously not, or we wouldn’t keep falling..! 
We are not understanding the way we keep stumbling on the same obstacle again and again and again.
It’s a most peculiar obstacle,
perhaps we are not understanding the deep meaning of it,
maybe it’s in our blind spot,
like one we’re not too keen to look at.

…..It’ll get better…..

But yes too, a persistent change of action may in time effect the intention.

What we do (in life) is not all that important,
but how we do it, is major.
How we do things will determine their success or failure,
will determine whether they will bring harmony or suffering.

And how we do things is the same as why we do things,
it is directly and intimately linked to our intention,
in fact it could be said that they are one and the same.

But, and it is a big but, to realise and come to understand what our intention is can be a sizeable task,
and not always all that obvious.
It takes someone with great inner clarity to know what lies inside of them,
that which makes them move, makes them tick.
Or, it takes a lot of inner work to really know “where we come from” in our actions,
and most of the time I personally don’t know, and I may find out later on when I see the results.
I can be very unhappy with a result and blame it on anything but me,
and sometimes it can take me forever, if ever, to see that an unwanted result came from me..!
…or I am very happy with a result and I don’t know how I managed that…!
but I am proud, or I think I’m lucky..! but happy..!

So, intention is a big one.
It is in the depths of our being.
More like unconscious…(?)
Our intention is one of the closest things to the divine that we hold inside of us,
it’s like a door to the divine.

I would say that who we are inside is what determines the outcome of our actions, not our actions per se, and who we are inside also changes with time and age.
Therefore, our actions, ie. the mechanics of our actions, can never bring about a truly deeply positive and lasting result, but only a shallow one.
Only a more or less profound intention can bring about more or less profound results.
Possibly our true intention we never come to know and we just have to trust ourselves(?)

As a human race, and to follow my line of thinking so far, it would seem that our (surface) intention is to control,
be masters of,
have power,
as in the child behaviour and analogy described earlier.
That is possibly not a great place of harmony to start with and really one which can only take us to similar places, or worse, given that one never has enough power and always seeks more.
But obviously this is counting without the divine input,
the divine touch that will descend on our intention now and then,
or the divine touch that we will open ourselves to, rise to and will welcome in once in a while.

7. A Diversion

Very lately I was introduced by a friend to the idea of the “leap”,
the evolutionary leap,
new to me and an interesting concept which I will borrow here, conveniently, but of which there are a few different scientific versions, and this being a non-scientific paper I have adopted a more romanticised take of the scientific forms,

So, what my friend told me goes like that: a super long time ago there were those amoebae and those bacteria (tiny little floating and swimming things) and the amoebae ate the bacteria and digested it to get the goodness from it, and day in day out amoebae was eating up bacteria.
That is the way life was then for those two. It was the order of things, and poor bacteria were just being devoured away in gazillons by the insatiable amoebae…..until one day one amoeba (or more likely a few of them) swallowed a bacterium, as usual, but this time it did not digest the bacterium to get the goodness out of it, but the amoeba instead just kept the bacterium inside itself and made space for its new guest. It did not break it up to pieces, did not incorporate it into its own organism to steal the bacterium’s good juices.
And so, this is how, that day, one amoeba swallowed a bacterium but did not use it up, did not suck it dry.
Why, that day, this amoeba did not digest this bacterium is anybody’s guess and I would myself guess that the amoeba itself does not know why it acted differently that day.
But apparently the fact is that, because of this change of behaviour, the two of them, being two separate entities, even if one within the other, started working together and interacting with each other and apparently,
wait for it,
that is how you and I came to be, after countless further steps for countless millions of years.
(Another version will say that the bacterium infected the amoeba and by that got to remain itself and later interacted with the amoeba for the benefit of both.)
This amoeba offering guest accommodation to a bacterium instead of consuming it, is, what my friend told me, called a leap,
an evolutionary leap.

How extraordinary is that…?!

Obviously, none of us were there some millions of years ago to verify the event but those are deductions made from modern observation of microscopic life.
I would like to add that evolutionary leap is a concept generally accepted in the scientific world as “out of the blue” or unexplained mutations or behavioural changes in living organisms and which are a cornerstone in the evolution process, hence the name of evolutionary leap (my wife, biology teacher, tells me so, and our opposing thumbs mentioned above would be a major one of them).

The only sad part of that story is that those two, amoeba and bacterium, have never known how important and inspired they’d been that day,
but I might never forget them now…!
And it may also be a valuable lesson on not underestimating or not altogether discarding the possibility of co-operation with a perceived enemy.

This was a bit of a long aparté but as mentioned above a welcome and most useful one for my monologue.

We do not know what caused the amoeba to change its routine and not digest the bacterium,
or what made the bacterium unexpectedly decide to infect the amoeba,
but given my train of thoughts today I would like to think that the cause came from somewhere other than our causal world,
perhaps a divine breeze blowing over and caressing them,
because even though there were no humans then, it was still and already this kind of a world where there were causes, and effects from the causes, well, I think so…

So, basically, we go round and round the same routine, getting nowhere, for a long, long time, doing the same things with same results over and over again, and then at some point for some unknown reason something happens, something different, suddenly someone, something changes the routine, out of the blue, caused by no one knows what.
Why did someone or something change the pattern…? moved by what impulse…? no one knows but suddenly the routine is no longer and instead it is shooting at a tangent,
leaving the wheel,
a new effect from cause unknown,
or perhaps or rather a new “out of this world” cause….. divine..?
a “leap”,
the pattern is altered and things take a new turn and a new era starts,
which, yes, will in time become a new routine and a new set of causes and effects…..until the next leap….
I like that “leap” idea…!

Those leaps would not have been generated by the entities of the time and therefore would not be causal-world-made…
I would propose that they originate from outside our causal world.
That is to say that the reason why a being acted differently one day is not to be found within our causal world,
and therefore, trying to replicate a leap by means of a crude copying of what our eyes see from within our causal world would be futile,
or monstrous maybe, (remember Frankenstein…?!)
It would be like trying to replicate that great party we had some time ago by applying the same setting as a recipe (same venue, same people, same music and food, same time of day, etc….) which anyone would agree would not work.

So, this is what I would call the “otherness”, this world which the human race does belong to but does not go by (at least not yet), and which nevertheless has great influence on the destiny of our world, and, yes, great influence on the human destiny,
is essential to it,
is the essence of it.

Could it be that one way forward would be to stop our minds from forever going forward and forever trying better, bigger, healthier, sustainabler, whollier, ecologicaller, spiritualler, grander….?
In a nutshell: more..!
It could be…
…but this is not the human way.
The human way, for the most, is to devise new things, to discover and to experience and experiment,
attempt to become master of things and master of itself, yes like a child.
And the more masterful we, humans, become, the more powerful we tend to think of ourselves.
So once more, to gain control is very much at the centre of most of our efforts.
Gain occupies our mind, and preoccupies us.

8. Is Everything for the Best in the Best of Worlds..?

Meanwhile, on planet earth, at home, and so that we don’t get bored or go insane inside, we should indeed not relinquish altogether our beautiful minds and hands and feet and bodies,
not relinquish our beautiful universe and all its wealth.
Like Candide said [Candide (Voltaire)], after a long story of much non-sense, (well, seemed to me)
“we must cultivate our garden”.
What a refreshing idea after all that..!

Life should really carry on as normal -whatever “normal” is, depending on your location on this planet – but only perhaps with a slight change of perspective, if one feels so inclined.

As for me, I’ll just go and carry on wiring up my sockets and switches, with my opposing thumb, for this Scottish cosmopolite community where some work with angels, many meditate, others talk to plants, where the divine is like a friend, welcomed and evoked daily, and where I have learnt so much about all the above and more for quite some time now.

Nothing New Under The Sun
It’s a Beautiful Universe

Oh! my beautiful mind
so far in time have you taken me.
Oh! my wonderful mind
for so long you’ve been carrying me
yet so little have I understood of life.

Forever a child
here I am
by your side
beside myself and wondering
if there is another world beside you
blindly treading on the edge of you
a step at a time
where there is no going back
yet still very much here, in this world of ours.