That got my little grey cells ticking (or tickling) over ... have a look at the results of this Google search ...

I've only just this minute made the search, so make of the result what you will. The top one sounds interesting - www.pumpyouraura.com ... I have heard of Pranic Healing but never really looked into it. I've also heard of 'punctured auras' etc. I wonder what your average shrink would say if you trotted along and said you feel low because your aura has been punctured!

Here's that search from earlier on ...

After yet another email, I followed some of the links on this page ... to here & here ... the quote about 'should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves' ... applicable not JUST to kiddies ... :)

Made my regular daily trip to this little page ... which may of course be defunct in a few weeks ... :)

Tomorrow I may as well send them the Jung ...

Hmmm ... checking those many, many wtc links ... some file locations seem to have been altered ... look for session 902 & 912 over at the Elias site

Yeah, I'd forgotten JUST how many sites is listed in that collection ... well, I suppose it was/is one of the more unforgettable moments in human history so far ...

Some chats - also from those wtc sites ... a few of which needed updating & tweaking ...

... I hadn't heard of 'elder rage' before ...

"Oh ... the visible world ... oh, what can I see ..."

[  June 18, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Sometimes I lay awake at night dreaming of all the wonderful mistakes I will make throughout the rest of my life on this planet."

From yesterday's meanderings -

Missing: Streetscape of a City in Mourning featuring the photography of Martha Cooper

Reaching out for Peace on Earth

More Black Ribbon sites

6 months, a memorial

Photo linx - my online time for Monday expired b4 I could really check these out - the 'Fire & Ice' sounds intriguing as do many others ...

Testing ...

Oh yes, I also found that the Elias site seems to have shifted loaction ... ah, the impermanence of cyberspace ... click

... the DVD of sessions sounds an interesting possibility (for the future) ... :)

How to keep your centredness, calm & inner peace even in the midst of a terrorist bombing

{CHECK that link - I never got a chance to do so late Monday afternoon ... :) }

More emails ... including these images ... fresh from Qld ... I think she likes 2 rub it in, when Brisbane is several degrees warmer than Melbourne at this time of year! I've walked along that very beach a few times myself, so I can't complain (well, if I did, would anyone take any notice?)

Check this link as well next time you're online ...

Nice e-card too ... clcik ... out of this world :)

A few more links ...

Mr Bean Laden :)

[  June 19, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Sometimes I lay awake at night and it really feels like I'm floating towards my own medical statement about life."

Today's cartoon ... click :)

Added a few Greg & Lauren Manning links to the ever-expanding wtc file ...

Here's an interesting article from this morning's paper ... :)

Quote of the day: "Have intelligent life-forms travelled millions of miles to trample on our corn?"

{From a recent little doco on aliens & conspiracies ... also mentioned Colin Andrews book Circular Evidence}

Oh yes, started typing up bits of this last evenin ...

... and quite timely, because speaking of tribalism ... click

The difference between theory & practice ... click :)

Thought for the day: "Given that the vast majority of road surfaces are very dark, why do we allow dark colours on the cars which travel upon these roads? Surely pink should be obligatory ... not to mention the psychological effect of seeing brighter colours might have on people as they go about their daily business ..."

I've heard some amusing anecdotes on the ABC recently ... as part of their 70th birthday ... lemme see if any are online ... there may well be some info at this page ... {I'm in Melbourne, in case you've forgotten ... that's down the south-east corner of the mainland}

More funny stuff ... click        here too

Some powerful art ... click

- Theodore Roethke

... click

www.sportlibrary.com.au

[  June 20, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "The world is nearly always the best place to live."

More sites from yesterday ...

Interesting set of questions --- actually came from this little search ... :)

Otherkin is a word I hadn't heard before {one wonders if it's at all analogous to starseeds etc}

Lyrics I heard the other day ...

... also that osho toons site ... click :)

"Everything is deeply related with everything else that happens ..."

Gallery looks worth a peek ...

More 'quotes' :)

Also this little site ...

Remarkable happenings overnight in England ... click ... to get 429 in 50 overs and LOSE!!!!

{Surrey vs Glamorgan June 19, 2002}

The garden at Esalen ...

... some articles etc worth reading at that site ... like 'Skippy, the Buddha, and Me' ...

Quote of the day: "You're skating on such thin ice, you could get your fingers burnt"

nigger in the ointment - mixed metaphors - abc site ...

[  June 21, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I would have thought that anyone could try and explain their own behaviour in twelve words or less."

Oh yes, from Thursday's emails ... a question from this page ... check out the 13th one down--the one that talks about the universe. I was asked what do I think of that statistic ...

At first I wondered if it was referring to the universe's colour or the percentage of visibla matter? I'll assume it's the one about the matter ... I suppose they have plugged some numbers into their existing equations and the dark matter percentage is a guesstimate to account for why the galaxies etc behave as they do given our present understanding of gravity & matter. Does that make any sense. I'm just sitting here in the computer room with numb fingers - I really should go grab the heater and bring it in here ... :)

Statistics like that always fascinate me - reminds me of one of those episodes of 'Cosmos' where Mr sagan speaks about the likelihood of aliens & habitabel planets. How do you really put a menaingful probability onto such things ... given that this planet and this human species is (so far) the only example of vaguley intelligent life in the cosmos that conventional science has to work with.

Best Leunig ever! ...

Okay, that is a big call & I do realise it's very much in the eye of the beholder and my opinion may change ... but here it is ... {Damn! it doesn't scan all THAT well ... ah ... perhaps I could pop along to the library & photocopy it ... I ave observed that newsprint often does NOT produce 'nice' results when scanned ... so remind me 2 upload an improved version at some stage ...}

{& I almost didn't buy Thursday's 'Age' ... in fact I purchased it this morning ... so you're damn lucky they had some left-over copies ... :)

Click

Here too

Leunig update: Hmmmm ... seems like the photocopy theory has a few holes in it ... yes, photocopies of pages of his books are fine but it seems the photcopies of newsprint aint so great ...

Then again ... it could just be my el cheapo scanner ... :)

Here's a few interestin comments on Mr Leunig ... :)

Just heard on the radio ... www.formoneplanet.com.au ... one 2 add 2 the wtc list? ...

Sometimes a man doesn't even know why his life is so weird ...

Justin case that Leunig page is defunct or altered at the smh site ... click here

[  June 22, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "A person's anger is a precise measure of how desperately they are clinging to whatever they happen to be clinging to (at the time)"

Ah yes also from yessterday's little trip to the library ...

- Sacred Journeys by Jennifer Westwood

- Pamela Meidell Atomic Mirror

- Pope Gregory mind tempts great many useless activities

- Bad Pyrmont (Externsteine)

- Arunchala Mountain

- Shikoku coins

- John Sanford The Kingdom Within

Life is a stimulation of reality.

Quote of the day: "He's entitled to his opinion. He's just wrong, that's all."

Review of 'Sacred Journeys'

Finally finished off typing up that Les Mitchell article ... he hits the nail on the head several times ... click

{or mitch2b.htm IF you want a more 'printer friendly' version}

Here's a few links that seem timely :)

Externsteine

A few more ... {Looks as if this is almost precisely the one in the book?}

How to Irritate People :)

http://www.earthways.org/atomicmirror/

[  June 23, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I've lost track of the number of meals I've eaten ..."

From yesterday ... click on 'Beams of Light' ... that's PRETTY much what Port Phillip Bay looks like ... if I had a decent camera ... :)

This search - include a couple more in the links section? ...

About your immortality - a story by Maril Swan

Quote of the day: "She exhausts easily under the pressure to be interesting."

A search for John Sanford's book tosses up some intresting locations ...

Just heard a very brief report on the radio about a recent near-miss by a large asteroid pasing inside the moon's orbit.

So, I plugged it into Google ... click

Makes one wonder ...

Searches in june23.htm ... francesca fremantle luminous emptiness ... deng ke (poems) ... gleitzman (spelling? - I shoulda bought it - reduced to 3 bucks and a quick flick open seemed quite humorous poke at some of our habits regards the fluoresecent screen in the lounge room ...)

Follow me down through the circles of knowledge,
Soetimes I like to eat cornflakes & porridge,
What kind of porridge do I recommend

www.wpdpi.com

Wow! ... get your very own signed copy ... click ... though the postage is almost as much as the three bucks I saw in the bookshop :)

Quote of the day: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust

Actually, I must confess, the ONLY time I've really heard abt Mr Proust was in a hilarious Monty Python sketch

http://www.thegatheringweb.org/ArtsandCrafts.htm - Karen Scott (mandalas)

Playing in a fountain - guess where I went 2day ... the one INSIDE the building is fabulous as well ...

[  June 24, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "The first man lived in his own forest of dreams."

Also saw this book while browsing yesterday ...

Plus some gorgeous dolphin shots by Francois Gohier

Quote of the day: "If you can't laugh at yourself, something's wrong."
- Bruce Ruxton (on the radio this morning)

This page looks promising ... funny thing is, I found it by plugging 'indoor bee hive' into Google. I saw an amazing little story on the telly the other day about this guy in Australia who has built an indoor hive! Glass on three sides (the other side being the wall of his loungeroom. A pipe leads up through the top of the hive and up out through the ceiling and has an entrance on the roof. So the bees can come and go as they please and the guy can sit and watch them fromt he comfort of his sofa!

I wish he'd come & buiild me one. The show is (supposedly) a kid's program called
'Totally Wild' but I reckon it's better viewing than most 'adult' stuff.

More great e-cards at the cosmiverse site ... click

A little search for Leunig 'Everyday Angels' ... lands me at a page I haven't
read in yonks ... click :)

And a little further down that page ... Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? When we take our opinions so seriously that they bring us discontent, they are not worth defending ...

- Poetics of Michael Leunig

{Menationed on this page}

Uploaded the 'everyday angels' ... oops, zerocatch site is acting up ... try here ... {hopefully, that's correct ... fortune city is also acting up!? ... or maybe it's just me ...}

Going over some old emails {'old' being Jan 2001} ... click & scroll down to 'Finding My True Guru' chapter ... amazing how time files ...

Hey ... is this page linked 2 the other recent Leunigs? ... hmmm ...

Oh yes, another of yesterday's pages ... I had a look at the e-card 'Ezekiel's wheel' ... plugged it into Google ... and arrived at this little page ...

Interesting page - from a quick post at the bb forum ... :)

Lovely e-card ... esp when viewed FULL size!

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[  June 25, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Click"

One more to add 2 the burgeoning wtc list? ... click

A few more Aussie images

The moon was very bright last night as I took my evening stroll by the creek ... like a giant spotlight in the sky ... reminded me of a few old pages ...

http://www.netaxs.com/~mhmyers/moon.tn.html
http://www.sulaco.co.za/photos.htm
http://www.sea-of-tranquility.net/gallery/sky/

{Yet I almost prefer the spookier, darker nights when there's no clestial beacon and I can barely make out the path ... }

Quote of the day: "If I was the kind of person who was impressed by such things, I'd probably be most impressed."

- ceramic garden snail gnome sculpture (smile)

- Bert Flugelman (spelling?) (Blue Mountains)

Here's somethin I scribbled down a few daze ago ... {watching a few video clips early one frosty morning} ... it occurs 2 me that there are 2 HUGE ego-trips common in human relationships (esp the ones people seem 2 sing about) ... (a) You have the ability & ingenuity to change the other person (for the better) - one could call this the messiah complex ... (b) You are so fabulous & wonderful & special that the other person will be so highly motivated to change FOR you ...

"He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy."

had a bit of a listen to an ol' CD ... particularly this track ... :)

More useful quotes :)

Need a laugh?? ... click :)

Ah, one more 2 add 2 the William Ricketts page ... click here ... some interesting angles on
those archways :)

clickhere

I like the one on the top of this page -

Interesting page on Kipling ... click - found it while looking up a Chris Fry quote

On a very busy afternoon online, with the rain tumbling down rather more that the forecast would have led one to expect ... had a look at this old page ...
{that Russian Ricketts page 'translation' kinda reminded me ... what exactly IS an 'exocentric man' }

Finally (?) ... if you need a bit more of a giggle or a chuckle ... click :)

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[  June 26, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Any human being who thinks that anger & criticism are healthy responses is highly confused. Be patient with them."

Here's a few more from yesterday's extensive meanderings ...

I like this shot (well ALL of them are worth viewing FULL size :)

(From this webshots album - webshots does shrink the images but you can click with the right button & get the file location and see it full-size - that is, you click with the right button AFTER you've clicked on the thumbnail in the album. Hope that makes sense )

Another great linx page ...

Well overdue clarification :)

Several on this page look worthy of further exploration, I'd say

That Lid Juarez article has moved again ... wasn't there a PDF version somewhere ...

The time of ingathering - note the date!

Whitefella Dreaming :)

{Note: if you have a slow connection, I'd advise making a cup o' tea (or maybe a five corse meal) while this page loads! It has loads of images but it's worth the wait. IMHO. If some images fail 2 load, you may need to click with the right mouse button and select 'Show Picture'.}

Quote of the day: "Everything seems a better idea when you're drunk"
(from a fabulous SBS comedy 'Life Support' :)

Posted this ... click

Fabulous episode of the new series of Outer Limits last evening ... about aliens & being 'believed' ... and skeptics ... :)

{It even had that quote from Tommy Szasz }

A little search for its themes leads me to this huge page with more alien links than you're likely to need ... {I did click on the 'UFO man' link ...}

Another interesting page - http://originaldo.com/book/index.html - their illustrations page also takes a while 2 load ... {but it's also worth it}

Fixing up some old pages ... found this little link ... click

I like their definition of compassion on this page - click - people DO tend to confuse it with pity etc ... and genuine compassion does require a fairly deep level of insight ... so it's as rare as hen's teeth just at the moment ...

Today's mantra: "Meditation is the answer to all the questions you have ever asked ..."

Click ...

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[  June 27, 2002   '




Today's mantra:

Anger is caused by a tiny virus in the brain,
It eats away cells slowly driving you insane.

Try this??? ... click :)

... you gotta upload it first ... :)

Also from yesterday ... Carla Houle's page ... I love the idea of animal/nature dream cards ... that bird in the photo is highly reminiscent of an Aussie crimson rosella ... :)

Quote of the day:

"Why are you angry at me?"
"If you don't know why I'm angry at you, then that's why I'm angry at you."

More interestin quotes ... click

Also 'but I have grown comfortable with this part of myself. It is the magic that is me ...' :)

Saw an interesting little book by Penelope Sach while in the post office this morning ...

Plus some gorgeous images by Stuart Owen Fox

Yes, Mount Warning is a great spot 2b taking a few happy snaps ...

Some excellent poetry at one of the sites that has Stuart's images ... click

Heard this song for the first time yesterday :)

The article 'Zen and the Art of Banana' on this page sounds great ... but aint online ... the name of the zen priest leads me to this interesting article ...

The other articles sound intriguin as well ... like what's bugging you ... not in the colloquial sense :)

Here's a report on his Sakura Farm

A list of non-running books :)

Yes, who were the authors of that hilarious book I read abt ten years ago ... 'The Non-running book' ... or was it non-runner's book ... hmmm ...

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[  June 28, 2002   '




Today's mantra: ""

Loads of stuff Thursday evenin & Friday morning as our first real arctic cold snap ... can you say the words 'wind chill factor' ... :)

... anyways, so much 'stuff' I decided to make a separate HTM file for it ... a couple of old scans & old printouts ... the usual ... click (assumin I upload it all ...)

Plus heard a fabulous comparison between a termite mound and a skyscraper ... didn't scribble it down fast enuf but basically it would be a one kilometre high skyscraper (I forget the base width they suggested) built by a million workers blindfolded ... plus somethin else I don't quite recall ...

www.pyrouniverse.com

Here's an article on termites :)

... another one ... click :)

- Litchfield National Park termite

Today's cartoon :)

Been busy lately adding quite a few more sites to my random page ... {Up to 560 sites as of this afternoon ...}

Some interesting pages at this site ... the exercises ... and planetary acupuncture ... :)

Not 2 mention the images of the sacred sites, which is the original reason I included it on my main Ricketts page :)

Expect the unexpected :)

Speaking of lovely spots in the land downunder ... click

Cute kittens

page - from a search of gail shumway (photographer)

Today's contemplation :)

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[  June 29, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "No. No. No. That's not the way to live."

A few more from yesterday ...

The difference between tourists & pilgrims - interesting page ... (& site)

The lighter side of Buddhism - esp the first link on the page

Testing ...

Some cat's list of valuable linx - the cartoons are worth a gander as well ... I had a
look at their 'blank page' ... :)

Didn't jot down too many of the sites I visited 2day ...

Quite a few went into this page - plus one of yesterday's ...

An old printout ... :)

More CD's - including one made at Borobudur ...

More Java

anothe

Send PUL to those trapped ... :)

{Could plug that into Google & see what happens ...}

- Mount Ungaran panorama

Also added a comment to this thread - hopefully that link will work ... and it is a deep & perplexing question ... :)

In case that thread does become defunct or whatever, I did include this little link ... {Note: if it does just take you to a huge list of atricles ... click on 'Handling Turbulence' }

I like the 'feel' of this page as well ... click

Many, many others ... if I ever get around 2 checkin the 'history' file before it gets wiped ... ah, impermanence

Plus a couple of intereesting emails & e-cards ... William Ricketts ... Ezekiel & the aliens ... Davd Suzuki (and a quote about insanity?) ... search engines ... hummingbirds ...
... Sacred Places ... psychiatric drugs ... :)

Yeah, speaking of drugs (of the psychiatric persuasion) ... here's something I was reading just the other day on the train into the aquarium ... "No offence, but when somebody is in an abyss like that, you really would have to be Jesus Christ or some other kind of healer to be of ANY real benefit to the person ... which is precisely why modern psychiatry focuses so heavily (almost exclusively) on pills because there are so few true healers in the profession ... sad but true ..."

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[  June 30, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "My life has often been eroded by strange circumstances."

Is it really half the year gone already ... my, my, how time files ...

Seeing as how the weather is on the improve (for June), I might just take myself off to the aquarium and maybe the newly-renovated domed reading-room at the State Library. I heard on the radio the other day that after nearly 3 years, it's opening again and has natural sunlight (not that it's overly sunny on most days in June but still ...)

{Update: Silly me - forgot 2 set the alarm and after a tiring week I kinda slept in ... the room looked great on the news though! And if I heard correctly it aint fully re-opened to the pubic until mid 2003 ... hmmm ... I guess we'll just have 2b patient ...}

A day in the life of a gibbon family ...

Wow ... an astonishing poem on this doco I watched last night ... about Nick Drake ... fabulous but melancholy songwriter & guitarist ... bu the poem was writ by his Mother ... I'll see if it's out there in cyberland ... if not, I'll type it up as I recorded a section of the doco on my trusty VHS ...

{And it was recited by his sister flawlessly ... if you're ever in the neighbourhood, pop over & I'll show you the tape ... the doco was called 'A Skin too few - the Days of Nick Drake'}

Quote of the day: "You don't get me? You don't need to get me. I'm simply a counter example to your point of view."

Listen to the Chanting

Second quote of the day: "You were this close to actually helping me ..."

Cute cartoon

Came from this page - http://www.livejournal.com/users/spacemummy/

Also in today's emails ... somebody kindly sent me this little image :)

Added a few more links to recently-created pages ...

Then suggested a couple more for that huge VICSERV linx page ... including one out of this month's "SHINE' ... click

Yes, the article by Mary Copeland about Supporting a person in crisis is fabulous ... not sure if any of those links give the exact text ... I may type it up at some stage ... {you never know your luck in the big city}

Plus a cute cartoon about emails I may scan ... click ;)

Plus a poem from Oodgeroo Noonunccal

Oh yes, almost forgot ... whata contrast in 24 hrs ... after the Nick Drake doco last evening, SBS has a stroy about laughing clubs in India ... even mentioned a national Laughter Convention ... {kinda reminds me of 'My Ideal Day Program' and that laughing academy ... }

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