Here’s a wee (disclaimer: it’s not at all wee) report from the six and a half weeks.
In short: the second Black Fast has been really incredible. I have been counting the days until I could drink coffee, masala chai and tea again on a daily basis. It is every bit as good as I hoped.
I began with my own ceremony. I fasted all day on Ash Wednesday (as I do every Wednesday). I entered the house after the five hour drive back from work and put on the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ by Peter Gabriel, which, as well as setting the mood is just a corker […]
I have been fasting as part of my regular practice now for over four months. I have done this before for much longer historically, and I find the process very valuable.
This year I am doing Lent, not only that, but, I plan to try and undertake a Black Fast.
I have taken to saying very little online of late. I am dismayed by the quality and tone of much of the exchange. I think it is overly simplistic to accuse masses of people of merely virtue signalling, nevertheless, when I was young I used to look around my environment and wonder, in a world […]
Why fungi may be a powerful key to reversing the onset of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) For those of you who don’t know about Paul Stamets he is a world leading mycologist and has been a real success story for psychedelic thinking within the scientific community. He has given a number of wonderful talks and […]
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it. — Nietzsche,‘Why I Am So Clever’, in […]
If at first you don’t succeed… …you should probably realise that you have made a basic logical error in assuming it could ever be otherwise, given that the definition of succession is that of one thing following another, whereas conversely, at first is the position of being before all other things. When one has succeeded. […]
I probably don’t need a preface for my particular brand of ramblings any more. I offered this to my brother to read and he deemed it: “Exactly the sort of thing you tend to write, but you know, developed a bit.” So I have a signature in my quirky writing it would seem. These things […]
Sweet oblivion brings tender kisses and promises of peace. Beautiful lies to protect us from the truth. Peace dwells not in the heart of darkness; Nor darkness neither. Nothing lies in the heart of darkness, No thing but that Which thou art. It is said the truth sets us free. And so it shall, so […]
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