Category: Personal

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Personal reflections on Shamanism

Earlier today I sent the following link to a friend:
BOMB Magazine: Margaret de Wys – Black Smoke: A Woman’s Journey of Healing, Wild Love, & Transformation in the Amazon
I won’t detail my friend’s response for privacy reasons, however some people may find my reply helpful:
The vomiting I experienced was dry retching in type and was [...]

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Personal thoughts on health and an allergy.

Earlier this year I developed an allergy which resulted in Hives/Urticaria. Today I have it under control and rarely have to take antihistamines (partly because I have discovered the triggers (food/drink based and Somac – a prescribed medication).
The allergy situation has been a nuisance, and at times very debilitating. At one stage things started to [...]

I completed the quiz "What's your Celtic Zodiac sign?" with the result Rowan - The Thinker.
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I completed the quiz “What’s your Celtic Zodiac sign?” with the result Rowan – The Thinker.

Today I noticed a Facebook quiz:
“What’s your Celtic Zodiac sign?”
The result I received was Rowan – The Thinker.
I quote:
January 1- February 17 Celtic tree astrology recognizes Rowan signs as the philosophical minds within the zodiac. If you were born under the Rowan energy, you are likely a keen-minded visionary, with high ideals. Your thoughts are [...]

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Personal musings…

From time to time I will post personal musings and anecdotes in this category….
Here is the first…
An excerpt from an email to a friend, about whom I had some personal revelations concerning something I had no way of knowing about through other means….
You mentioned that my gift is amazing….
Not really…and I am not being ’super [...]

Remembering and appreciating friends.
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Remembering and appreciating friends.

Today, 3rd June, is the 15th anniversary of the death of a close friend of mine who died in the northern summer of 94. In fact, he was the best friend I ever had.
His name was Peter Vernon Booth (Pete) and he was a very unusual man. Think eccentric English boffin. Highly intelligent (IQ off [...]

Easter - personal recollections.
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Easter – personal recollections.

Easter means different things to many people.
For some of my thoughts on spiritual aspects of Easter you can read an article I wrote earlier today:
Easter – the real meaning.
Currently I am having a quiet weekend getting things done. My wife is away in Melbourne with her family and I have stayed behind to look after [...]

Places I have lived in - Bath, Somerset, England.
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Places I have lived in – Bath, Somerset, England.

The city of Bath, in the county of Somerset, England was where I lived from 1990 until 1997 when I left England for the last time (not long before they turned the lights out it seems).
I lived in a small village just outside Bath called Batheaston, set on the slopes of Solsbury Hill.
All the above [...]