I wonder if the new term will start sometime this month. Hopefully seeing old and new faces. 🙏📿🧎🍁🍂

Just returned from a lovely cruise vacation, during which I enjoyed several meditations using Alistair’s recordings. As I wrapped one session on my stateroom balcony, I found myself immersed in a kind of metaphor for “the big open,” FWIW … I was the cruise ship — an intricate structure of compartmentalized preferences, ideas, thoughts, and a hull loaded with the ballast of my own archived experiences — sailing the waterways of the world. In the evenings, the ship’s lights begin glowing, creating a halo on the sea around the waterline — the fifth field, illuminating all that stuff and providing perspective on it from without. But I also found myself far out in the sea — in the actual big open — watching the ship gliding by, flowing with the flow, doing its thing ... and I felt immeasurably happy seeing it chug along on its way. The USS or HMS Beingfulness? 😁

The book that I mentioned in this morning's session is "The Archeology of Mind" by Jak Panksepp and Lucy Biven. It's quite a tome but well worth looking at if you are interested in this subject matter. https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-archaeology-of-mind-neuroevolutionary-origins-of-human-emotions-jaak-panksepp/2594153?ean=9780393705317