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Neuroqueer, an offering
There is something about the inbetweeny nature of the kind of experience that is the natural territory of the neurodiverse way of being that lends itself to evolution, as and when the various methodologies of life unlock themselves from all the rules and rigidity of what is already known and familiar to most, to venture into the territory and meet us there. We naturally inhabit the void where new potentials emerge by virtue of the fact we are non-conformers and this leads into new extrapolations of experience…and expression. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Authorship, Consciousness & evolution, Entertainment, Fiction, Films, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged autism, beyond linearity, Blade Runner, cinema, evolution, fantastic autistic, fantasy, felt senses, inventiveness, Literature, multidimensionality, neurdiversity in cinema, neurodiversity, neurodiversity in literature, neuroqueer, new paradigm, non-conformist, non-linearity, sensory experiences, synesthesia, Virginia Woolf
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No time to waste
Its more than possible to halt our our metamophosis with where we direct our minds (our habits and our comfort places). For instance, where is the contempory fiction that looks forwards, not to the topics of war, or cancer, or horror, or divorce, or past-trauma, or dsystopia, or kitchen-sink drama, or fluffy romance? Where is all the optimism, combined with new thinking and the sheer force of imagingation that is fiction?? Never forget that reading is how we sow seeds in the fertile ground of our minds; so, as any gardener knows well, be mindful of the quality of the soil but also of the kind of seeds that you sow. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, History, Life choices, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Writing
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Tagged choosing what to read, chosing what to read, expansion and acceleration, fiction for Asperger's, forward-looking literature, futuristic writers, geting to the point, human evolution, I don't have time to rush, is there any value left in retrospectives, joy of reading, Literature, living in the present moment, metamophosis, new paradigm, no time to waste, optimism, planting seeds in our minds, quantum leap, Ted Chiang, the point of fiction in a transitional era, timelines, transitional generation, writing style compared
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Writing as compared to nest-building
The title says it all…but there’s more to the analogy than I thought, when it occured to me. Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Literature, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged being a writer, birds, compelled to write, constructing a written piece, creative process, how writing influences people, inspiration, nest, nest-building, ostera, poetry, prose, sending our thoughts out into the world, the drive to write, the point of writing, weaving ideas, weaving our thoughts, why do I write?, writing motivation, writing process
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Jane Eyre – nineteenth century Aspie woman
Yesterday, I was at the Blackeyed Theatre stage production of Jane Eyre and, from the front balcony seat looking down onto the stage, I saw something so new yet just so obvious about this well-known character that I had missed … Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Fiction, Life choices, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged asperger's friendships, asperger's traits in literature, Aspergers, autism, being different, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, late-diagnosed Asperger's, masking behaviours, nineteenth centiry asperger's women, owning your differences, pretending to be normal, role models, self-understanding through literature, was Jane Eyre autistic?, why people dislike people with Asperger's
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How we encourage empathy…and not just in women
In a world full of people that are, we are told, less empathic than ever, how do we encourage more empathy? Do women naturally have more empathy than men, as one study suggests, or do they develop this by reading more fiction, something which men are far less inclined to do? If so, how do we plug this gap in our boy’s emotional intelligence? An article (linked) that I read this week set me off on this line of thought and these are some additional thoughts I have to contribute… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Entertainment, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged alternative lifestyles, caring about other people, emotional intelligence, Empathy, heforshe, lifetsyle vloggers, respecting different cultures, teaching kids empathy, who reads fiction anymore, women read more than men, yawning
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Memories from the stones
Sometimes its as though the stones of a place speak to us; sometimes its a feeling of a place that takes us back in time…reminding us of something important, like a memo to ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Holiday destinations, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged ancient civilizations, DH Lawrence, etruscans, Italy, Life Bistro, matriarchy, memories, messages across time, out of sync with the times, past lives, Travel, vegan, Volterra
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To walk visible…at last
Was your fierce teenage femininity woken up and crystallised by Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”? Mine certainly was. I know I’ve thought of re-reading “Wuthering Heights” many times over the years – what stopped me, caused hesitation? Did I fear disappointment with what engaged me so as a girl like when you try to visit the most magical books of childhood and they’re just not the same, am I more squeamish of the dark than I used to be, or was it the thought of comparison…with where I am now…that I most dreaded? For, where is my inner Cathy, where are my wild moors; have I sold my life out to the Lintons, made nice and put wild plaything away? Or am I still promising them to myself “tomorrow”? Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Divine feminine, Fiction, Films, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged Brontës, Cathy, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, freedom, Heathcliffe, holding onto who we really are, impact of a novel, Jane Eyre, novels versus television, rereading classics, sacred feminine, the pitfall of TV adaptations, To Walk Invisible, visibility, wildness, Wuthering Heights
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Curiosity killed the joy
What happens when we start to consider that there can be many truths, all at the same time. After all, life is never a single, simple thread; everything we release into it becomes woven into a dense tapestry of other people and events and yet only we each get to choose which is our still-relatable thread to follow. No one else can come along and unpick or reclaim that thread as more-rightfully theirs, or even snip it out as though it never existed or was “wrong”, which is how we mess-up when we attempt to post-mortem anything that happened “in the past”. As we pull away at “what was”, there is always the risk that unpicking one part of the tapestry to make ourselves feel better will cause other things to fall apart for others…perhaps necessarily so in cases where something continues to be harmfully distorted to this day, but quite unnecessary in others, so this need to be a very conscious and considered choice… Continue reading →
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Tagged allowing many truths, allowing people to be flawed, bad news overload, Christopher Robin, consciously choosing what to watch or read, how much do we need to know?, is all information good for us?, leave the past alone, moving on, should we unpick the past?, stop raking over the past, too much information, what is true history?, why are we addicted to mud raking?, Winnie the Pooh
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1000 stories, a single shared ending
What does Sheherazade have to tell us about where we are now, at the end of “1001 nights” of human history? Are we ready to face a new dawn together or do we throw ourselves back into a perpetual re-run of all those same old stories with their oh-so predictable endings? When this particular story came up for me just so powerfully again, having been such a long-running companion throughout my life, I found myself sitting up and taking note of what it had to tell me about how we are holding a whole new kind of an ending in the palm of our unified hands. Both the masculine and feminine aspects have to be prepared to face up to the fact there are no new endings to the stories they have both already heard; they can only move on by overcoming each of their fears (both equally vaid…yet together, they neutralise) creating a brand new story, together. Continue reading →
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Tagged allegory, arabian nights, end of conflict, evolution, heal the world, human race, masculine and feminine, Rimsky- Korsakov, save the world, Scheherazade, snow white, stories of humanity, unity consciousness, wanting the same things, wholeness, wisdom in ancient stories, yin and yang
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Being the rainbow bridge
When we reach out our arms and embrace the broken aspect of the masculine, we bring it home to ourselves and the feminine values that are so needed by this world in order for us to move on together, intermingled as the best of both masculine and feminine qualities, as one unit. When we do this, we allow the masculine to dare to come home to the ever present embrace of the feminine, not to build up its walls of resistance even stronger against it. It is sad, yes, that so often the masculine has to be broken before it will come home in this way; but let it be broken only because of its own doings, not because the feminine contributed to that (which is not what the feminine is about anyway). As such, we all get to be the rainbow rather than chasing down its mythical ending (something I pondered just a few days ago as I was travelling home along a road arced by a rainbow, wondering which end the pot of gold was meant to be at; surely when we realise it is to be found at both ends, the whole of its bridge, joining one place to another, becomes that long sought-after gold). When we are the rainbow ourselves, rather than seeking it externally, we incorporate the best of both worlds…as ourselves; which makes it less of a destination than a state we get to be in, all of the time.
Rediscovering the much-needed rainbow bridge that I describe as it is so beautifully conveyed in a hundred year old “parable” of our times: E. M Forster’s “Howard’s End”. Continue reading →
Posted in Authorship, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Fiction, History, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, changing the paradigm, eight wave, EM Forster, forgiveness, global mind, healing the masculine, healing the world, Howard's End, left and right hemispheres, Merchant Ivory, Nine Waves of Creation, rainbow bridge, return of sacred feminine, unity consciousness
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