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The Falsely-Funnelled Olympic Footfall
Ok, first up some declaration of interests. 1) I LOVE the Olympics. I cry non-stop during most sports and definitely when there’s a medal...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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BH: the most civilized place in the world
I was hosting Radio 3’s Breakfast show this weekend – my word! I LOVE radio. It’s so civilized next to TV. Not that TV doesn’t have it’s...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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BOOK REVIEW: Jean Cocteau, Le livre blanc
I actually first came across Le Livre Blanc in Gosport Municipal Library when I was about 15. Since it’s a vivid, sometimes poetic...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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Seamus Heaney climbs back "out of the marvellous as he had known it"
The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Orientalism in the Amazon
I watched Channel 4’s Medicine Men Go Wild last night because they were doing ayahuasca in the jungles of Peru. The show follows two...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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‘Heaven opens inward, chasms yawn/ Vast images in glittering dawn/Half-shewn, are broken and withdra
We did the last session during the day. Traditionally ayahausca is drunk in the night, in the pregnant dark, digging and dealing with...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
HAPPY NEW YEAR The Chinese and the Greeks were arguing as to who were the better artists. The king said, “We’ll settle this matter...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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The Jungle is Calling
In September this year, I’m going to be returning to Brazil to help with another seminar on Ayahuasca , the Shamanic tea that I tried...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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new york new york new york
… so good they named it thrice. I certainly didn’t…. As schedules dictated I arrived in New York on Friday, worked on Saturday and then...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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The Man Who Drank the Universe (again)
Thinking about my upcoming pilgrimage to Brazil, I dug out a master copy of The Man Who Drank the Universe and uploaded it to Vimeo, to...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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tarnation
TARNATION My iPod just did it again. More beautiful New York boys this evening in Jonathan Caouette’s “Tarnation “. Broken, nervy,...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Holy Island: Spring Section
I don’t think I’ve been to Holy Island in that particular slice of Spring before. There seems to be a week just towards the beginning of...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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"peace came upon me and it leaves the weak so sleep silent angel, go to sleep" k.d.lang
Pina Bausch died and I didn’t find out till a week later. Dancer: Julie Anne Stanzak. B?hne von Peter Pabst UA Wuppertal 1982 No creator...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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om aim saraswatiyeh namah om
This was probably the thing I’ve been most proud of in my life. At the end of almost a year’s work on these two pieces for the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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Repeat x 108: “I give myself permission to put myself first”
My therapist gave me this mantra: “I give myself permission to put myself first” – and I’ve been rotating around it for a couple of weeks...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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