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Thursday September 20, 2007
I arrived back in the UK a couple of days ago, after a very enjoyable ten days by train across Europe, stopping in Bucharest, Budapest and Paris on the way. My last few days in Bulgaria went well, and I have returned with a (very) rough draft of the second novel in hand.
Back here in Birmingham, it is decidedly autumnal: outside the grass is wet with dew and there is that wonderful clear, yellow light that you get at this time of year. Autumn is probably my favourite season, and it’s good to be back home.
I am aware that I have been neglectful of thinkBuddha over the past couple of weeks, but I should be up and running again in a day or two, and I have various things that I am planning to write about here. And as usual, my various courses and classes should provide me with more to reflect upon. I’m teaching a course at Staffordshire University on Philosophy, Life and Existence, and one at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens called An Introduction to Consciousness, which I’m particularly looking forward to. It’s a huge and perplexing field (see, for example, the more than two and a half thousand online papers referenced by David Chalmers), and I don’t think that it is going to get any less perplexing throughout the next ten weeks; but the perplexity, of course, is part of the fun.
An ‘Introduction to Consciousness’ I regard as an honour, same as perhaps being introduced to the Queen/hero/heroine of ones choice. The Course, with such a promising title, certainly puts one in contact with a variety of ‘projected consciousnesses’. We, as a group, are through words, body language, thoughtful pauses and so on…..are on a journey to discover ‘consciousness’.
To know, to feel, to express, to reflect, to observe, to create and just ‘to be’…many dimensions to get lost in or to discover/re-discover ourselves. I look forward to reading Susan B – the suggested Course book. In the meantime, SAT-CHIT-ANANDA [existence-consciousness-bliss].
— pramila · Sep 26, 10:54 PM · #
