Talk about freeaky ... (well, the parallel universes doco is amazing timing given LESS than a week ago I was perusing stuff by Michio Kaku and the 'Theory of Everything' that I hadn't perused in ages) ... I plug that osmosis quote into Google and arrive at this site ... and that's NOT the frwaky part ... part of that 'stuff' on my hard drive was a very cute kids drawing (May upload it at some stage - can't recall where it originated) ... well, it looks uncannily similar to this one ... :)

Yes, few people currently would be described as "consciously connected to her Oversoul since birth" :)

Ah, here's a fleeting thought ... email them abt the question of whether people diagnosed with schizophrenia ought to be meditating ... hmmm ...

Another Rufus ... on the 'I am Sam' CD ... plus an interesting version of 'Strawberry Fields' ... {and when you look at those lyrics to 'Nowhere Man', one could say they are quite Zen-like ... 'doesn't have a point-of-view, knows not where he's going to' ... }

I did pop along to Mt Martha and it turned out to be a very atmospheric day ... no photos ... though my dinky camera rarely does justice to such scenes ... but the boardwalk around the estuary could be snapped ... maybe next time ... this time I took along that book again ... and look what was on page 322 :)

Not to mention the tiny but melodious birds that seem to hang out in that area ... and a couple of very inquisitive magpies ...

More on Arthur & the folks around him ...

[  September 3, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "My Mum said I was good and I am always the good person."

From yesterday's little jaunt to the estuary ... they had a poster abt the the mysterious lifecycle of shortfinned eels ...

Wild, WILD weather last night - sounded like the roof was going to be blown clean off.

Updated this collection a tad ... click :)

More movie sounds ... click :)

Ghadames

Some inetrestin emails this morning ... leading to these old & new sites ...

Death clock - this one freaked me right out! I must have visited it b4 and left a cookie as it pops up with my exact date of birth!!! :)

What is death

Afterlife Knowledge - first read abt Bruce in 'Nexus' at good ol' ERMHA :)

Also found this site before heading of to the flicks ...

Listening to my new CD again ... 'Across the Universe' had never been one of my favourite Beatles tracks ... but now I find myself singing it ... excellent lyrics ... {Find a link sometime}

And on the subject of 'cover' versions of famous songs ... it reminded me of that 'Stairways to heaven' - I wonder if that's still available :)

Sarah McLachlan's (spelling) version of 'Blackbird' is excellent as well ...

www.bigcoight.com - a very funny send-up of those 'Croc Hunter' type programs :)

www.austinpowers.com

[  September 4, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Life is the unused portion of your current reality."

{or 'unusual'}

Oh yes, prior to that movie yesterday, read the blurb on the back of a book that sounds like a hell of a read ... I believe it was 'The Bean Patch' by Shirley Painter ... next time I'm online ...

A few interesting emails this morning as I watch the rain fall ...

Across the Universe - ah! It explains the Sanskrit expression they included in the song!
I just thought it was a piece of random gibberish like some of the stuff in 'I am
the walrus'. :)

Ditto

Some Jung

Stairways to heaven :)
{Yes, a fairly unique album! Only ONE song on the album but 22 different versions! }

Ditto

Plus Martin Gardiner ... pnemonics ... oh yes, plus a fascinating episode of 'Outer Limits' about cloning the DNA from the Shroud of Turin! ...

... plus that zen advice to keep one's mind in a CONSTANT state of questioning ... :)

Dali

www.gameshop.com.au

Drumbalaya

Quote of the day: "You can't say anything until you're in my shoes!"
"Okay. Give us your shoes ..."

Random Humour Archive

"Thoughts meander endlessly ... like rain into a paper cup ..."

Where else did we go today ... the Heal Normality Board has a couple of new entries ... oh yes, a defunct link led to some interesting sites :)

Then there's always www.weirdcrap.com ... and the kooks museum ...

[  September 5, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I wanted to be normal but the vioices in my head wouldn't let me. I wanted to be normal but the vioices in my head had other ideas."

Hey, started the first cassette tape in months yesterday avo ... as I've been 'flying' lately ... I keep saying I really oughta get a decent mike ... and if I ever work out how to copy a cassette into Real Audio format for the web ... some 'interesting' stuff right off the top-of-my-proverbial ... :)

{I think listening to 'I am Sam' has helped somewhat ... }

In fact, I may have set a world record for singing the phrase 'Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup' in one day :)

Boredom

Interesting guestbook - esp entry for sep 4 ... click :)

Sadly, www.fitnessfromaliens.com seems defunct ...

And I didn't checkout the one from the kooks list that mentions shape-shifters ... I mean it is the MOST unprovable of 'delusions', isn't it ... that's IF it is just a delusion ... :)

{Though alien abduction & telepathic control of on'e thoughts are also pretty tough to prove either way }

Very pleasant day in the suburbs of this large city ... mainly book hunting ... and actually purchased my very first actual Leunig :) ... but saw so many others ...

Robert Karen - Nessa Algie - Atem (yes, it's the name of an author as well as the name of a Tangerine Dream album) - Van Gogh 'Exercise Yard' - Bradford Keenes - Hakuin Zen (Inexhaustible Lamp) - Kipfer (8,789 words of wisdom?) - Mabey (comfort heal) (interesting anagram that surname!) - Hulton Getty 'Dog Days' is also fabulous but we must stick to our budget - Jeffrey Migdow (on breathing - yes, an entire book about how-to-breath proper) - Karen Linamen? - and a few that I glanced at but the over-worked brain cells inside my scone didn't retain enough information about ... :)

Oh yeah, also picked up Septmber's issue of Living Now ... some interesting stuff ... more details soon ...

One of the other books was heavily reduced and very tempting 'Remarkable Eye' - the photography of Jean-Paul Ferrero and they are gorgeous ... :)

Oh yes, another was a Dr Seuss book that had a line somethin like "Tell a friend how you are feeling today. Sooner or later everyone gets to feeling that way." ... um, I suppose that holds true in general ... but then I thought 'Hey, what about clinical depression that resists all attempts to lift it; or unpredictable and wild mood swings; or the trauma of war etc; or the various brands of religious ecstasy; or hearing voices ... and how futile it is for anyone to even imagine they can get a real sense of what that's really like ... (or being abducted by aliens or telepathic interaction ... or channeling ... which aren't common experiences for most humans JUST yet)

{Hey, Geoff, how did we get from Dr Seuss to aliens altering one's thoughts in ONE sentence? }

Heard a couple of Beatles songs as I meandered around the shops - the original versions ...

There was also a book called 'Initiation of the World' by somebody-or-other (one of my favourite writers)

[  September 6, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I believe in responding to most questions by making various random sounds."

From yesterday ...

Oh yes ... that tiny volume of poems by Henry Lawson ... esp the last two ... What's the Use (not quite what you might expect from the title!) & Down the River {I'm sure they're available online somewhere or other - after all, he was a product of the 19th century}

Here's a few of his efforts

Vera Alder's book

That Van Gogh I mentioned

Atem

Robert Karen

Juliet Mabey

Dog Days

Chalk up the third Rufus for the week - in reading a bit more of Once & Future King on various buses yesterday ... (page

Search for a defunct site? ... click :)

Hmmm ... seems that Lawson poem aint out there after all ... it's actually a good 'un in my book, so I may tap out the four or five verses ... :)

The other one aint there either ... hmmm ...

Just remembered from yesterday - an interesting book abt feng shui & offices & hallways & the placment of desks ... and the shape of rooms ... hmmm - by Lillian Too ?

Dr Seuss :)

Some nice photos

From an email ... this old link ...

Click - here :)

Click for something (else)

Interesting news ... seems like New Paradigm wants to publish that story I wrote
about the robot :)

Phew! I was mowing the backyard on an unexpectedly sunny avo and I noticed that creeper near the rose bush has gone a bit crazy. And so, I started to prune it ... some of the strands had interwoven with the neighbour's lemon tree and when I extracted them, a few were 10 foot long! Shows how long it's been invading the space over the fence ... :)

{Kinda reminded me of Tenzin Palmo and her analogy of the 'roots' of anger, prejudice etc being damned hard to trace ... & uproot :)}

[  September 7, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "One day a man decided that he might like to be famous but the ancient federation told him to be very careful and so he went back to his usual way of doing things."

Here's the Lawson verse I mentioned yeterday ...

Been adding quite a few new {& old} links to this collection lately ... the guru rating service is worth a peek ... :)

Not to mention 'Discordia' etc ... and the dog & cat links ... & the puns ... :)

Quote of the day: "I used to believe that I was the only person in the world capable of thought, and that everyone else were robots." - click here :)

More reading material ...

Breathing Easy

Add this to my Sep 11 lists ... it's damn close to one year and in their usual under-stated way, three of our tv stations plan up to 12 hrs of continuous coverage ... hmmm ...

Cute ... click :)

More e-cards in my Inbox ... click :)

Today's Keno numbers: 15, 34, 20, 35, 79, 19, 69, 70, 28, 3 Good Luck

Picked up a calendar of Aussie landscapes for 49 cents! Okay, it is 2002 and that's 2/3 over but still, the images are very nice ... most were taken by an Ian Bayly {Hmmm ... doesn't have much of a web-presence, and there's nothing wrong with that}

The Tassie shots are lovely - may even scan a couple if I can be bothered ... :)

[  September 8, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Society is a lot like the circus - except for the clowns."

Up very (VERY) early to watch Lleyton vs Agassi ... not quite at his best but credit to the more seasoned player ... and I noticed there's some 'interesting' religious programs at that 'ungodly' hour of a Sunday morning ... one Bible verse said something abt God sending a strong delusion ... hmmm ...

... also somethink from the book of daniel

http://www.ziplink.net/~donna/england/oak.html

Nice spot :)

More fonts

Posted this about 6:15 AM, when ordinarily I'd be faaaast asleep ...

Speaking of which ... :)

In case the link don't work ... click here & scroll down to 'Ranier Maria Rilke'

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Ramanujan.html

Nice spot for a stroll ...

This song is playing in the background as I type up this journal ... :)

Another lovely ecard - for once, I probly prefer the shrunken version rather than the full-size ...

{And click on the 'Australia' category above the image for more pics of this land down under}

This one almost looks too perfect ...

www.kidslikeours.com

Interesting story, especially seeing as how less than 24 hrs ago I was telling one of my email buds about that 'Bedtime Story' I wrote at ERMHA :)

One of those photos I mentioned yesterday was of Mt Killiecrankie

[  September 9, 2002   '




Today's mantra:
"This space is available for advertising."

Up early again ... and again the more 'seasoned' player wins - first time ever a US-Open final between two guys over-30 :)

Not a lot online ... did add a few to this list ... like Gerardus & the Inner Smile & the mystery practice as well as some more humour and embracing anger ... & a couple more random pages ... Zen Scuba ... cat quotes ...

Plus that helicopter game - hadn't played it in awhile ... got 1064! and eventually crashed on a relatively straight-forward section compared to a couple of gaps I really have no idea how I got thru ... :)

Plus a whole bunch of sites with clean jokes! Yes, sadly, a lot of humour does drift into the smut territories ... or into the personal-attack-thinly-disguised-as-humour territory ...

www.linkspider.org - a clever site name, seeing as how the internet is often referred to as a web

[  September 10, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Sometimes I think that I am the subatomic reality of life."

{Sometimes may be altered to 'I like to think I'm'}

Let it out ...

Watched an interesting doco on the mental health system last night & how woefully under-funded it is ... and I had this fleeting thought about how easy it is to criticise & scapegoat ... but these are human beings in the system and what a stressful job it would be even if it were adequately funded ... I mean it would be lovely if we had a fleet of saints & angels standing by to staff the system ... {that all sounded a heck of a LOT better in my head before I sat down here to tap away at the keyboard }

It was on the ABC & they may have a transcript or somethin ...

Followed by what some may say is fairly appropriate viewing ... 'A Very Ozzy Christmas' :)

One classic quote: "Christmas is so stupid. You sit around a table with your whole family and see how long you can last without arguing about stuff."

The review was memorable too - 'By the time it's over, your family christmas will look like something out of a Jimmy Stewart movie' :)

Oh yes, it's funny the things that pop into your head at times (well, my haead actually) - while watching that doco and listening to people recount their horror stories about the existing mental health system and their schizophrenic or depressed relatives ... for some reason, I thought abt reincarnation and I did read somewhere that the MAIN reason that MOST of us don't have any recollection of the details of past lives is that we did things we really don't WANT to remember ... or carry around with us ... hmmm ...

Some free chapters

Brahma Kumaris - www.bkwsu.com - or www.brahmakumaris.com.au

Amusing Global Ideas Bank article :)

Handy sayings :)

Ah, finally found the name of that little video clip which SBS often plays instead of the animated leunigs ... it's 'Lullaby' by Deep Forest and can be downloaded at this page

Speaking of SBS, here's a very ambitiously titled page don't ya think ...

A different kind of 'blind date' :)

Can you handle anothe sep 11 page ... click - quite a piece of art from a 13yo ...

Hey, remind me 2 transcribe some of the 'stuff' off the cassette I've been doing lately ... more thoughts aboout how being uncertain makes us very uncomfortable ... and sliding scales ... and credibility ... and my fascination for certain extreme experiences ... stay tuned ...

Cute little e-card in my email just now ... click & then look for 'Confessions of a cat' :)

{Look in the e-cards section, it's currently in their 'Latest' section, but who knows how long it will remain there ...}

www.confessionsofacatbreeder.com has some art & stories & even a psychic ...

More e-cards at this site {under 'fun stuff'}

www.originalmindonline.org - now defunct?

Oh yes, remind me to tell you about this dream I had last night - about volunteering to go to the moon in a dodgy rocket :)

Added a few more to this growing list ... some humour ... some of the ones I've just mentioned ... some chanting ... some more zen ... cruel site of the day etc ...

{thoughts that pop into your head while shaving}

[  September 11, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Next in our series of random pieces of philosophy ... most people never say what they truly think ... because they're too afraid of risking upsetting the people they have become addicted to ..."

www.roamingyak.org

Interesting piece - the rest of his site is worth a gander ... no index page? so just backspace to '/1719/' ...

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez

"Okay, you're weirder than me"

More emails ... click

These as well ...

Plus these that I've always wondered about ... click ... esp tales from topographic oceans

Oops, those lyrics aren't included ... try clickin here

Was '90125' almost twenty years ago! Hardly seems plausible ... :)

More quotes ... click

This is an interesting list - with his very first album topping the poll ... {I hadn't realised just how MANY albums he has made!}

Also from today's emails ... click :)

Next in our series of random pieces of philosophy ... "You might like to think of your thoughts as being like bubbles in a fizzy drink - they make a lot of noise and are always arising and sometimes they get up your nose."

This article reminded me of my 'Ideal Day Program' ... esp the last paragraph ... :)

Today's keno nos: 3, 14, 21, 26, 40, 41, 54, 58, 67, 77.

[  September 12, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "It would be a much better way to live if everyone would just stop & say hail Mary before they were full of grace."

Scribbled a whole bunch of stuff down walking home from yesterday's shopping ... remind me to stick some of it in here at some stage ... :)

... and remind me also to scan a couple of the bird stamps ... the blue wren like I described a couple of weeks ago on my epic walk ... and the budgies are cute as well ...

"I put my life into a metal bucket, just before a man said ..."

Very devious minds out there ... click ...

Posted this little quote after checking some old files & links ...

Also visited this little page ...

Ah ... the budgie stamp is online! ... click :)

Memorable quote ... from a rather interesting site ... {and of course, that was written before the advent of so many 'mood chemicals' in the 50's ...

Those budgie stamp scans are still a bit on the tiny side ... so ... remind me to upload a larger version when next I'm online ...

Quote of the day: "The universe is a labyrinth so vast & mysterious that those who plumb its depths may wind up lost forever." - from an ep of Outer Limits, giving a vary different slant of the 'Jack the Ripper' story involving aliens.

[  September 13, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "My mind is dividied into two equal parts. One part believes in complete & utter crap. The other part is very fond of taking a nap."

Uploaded the budgie stamp :)

From this morning's emails comes this ...

Oh yes, some very clever & funny stuff on Backberner last night - hopefully some of it will make its way onto their site within the next week or so ... "Don't believe the nonsense unless you hear it from me directly." ... plus a great sketch on scientists in Scotland & beer & perceptions of beauty ... :)

Loads from this afternoon's trip down the peninsula again - 23 degrees! - warmest in months - browsed a few interesting bookshops aswell ...

... kim levin (dog photos) - dombrovskis (trees) - magnificent wilderness (grundsten?) - thousand campfires (aussie bush poetry & ballads) - Sarah Day 'The Wheel' - Terry Denton 'The Wooden Cow' - Ken MacLeod (The Human Front) - plus a DVD called 'Greatest Places' or something like that which had Tibet, Greenland & other spots and it apparently was originally used in IMAX theatres ... (plus a DVD called 'Genesis' which also looked excellent) ... pity I aint got no DVD :)

Oh plus some fabulous sections in Once & Future King - around page 400 or so ... very ironic timing a few of them ... :)

Scribbled quite a few random thoughts down while on various buses or walking along the beach & the cliffs on a glorious day ...

Oh yes, one bookshop had a great idea - a free booklet with brief excerpts from an author's best books to whet the apetite ... the author being Garry Disher and he lives on the peninsula ... from the excerpts I'd say he has talent ... the Bamboo Flute plot sounds intriguing ... nextime I'm online ...

Also www.bolinda.com

Another piece of random philosophy ... "You seem to be suggesting that it's easy for a human being to change. Well, if it is so easy for a person to change, then why don't YOU change yourself into the kind of person who chooses compassion rather than anger? Compassion is always an infinitely better way of responding to any situation. Anger never made ANY situation better ..."

From those Garry Disher excerpts: "I'm prepared to behave like a moron if it'll get me off the hook." :)

www.hha.com.au - for more info on the author & the booklet? - called a 'sampler' ...

Oh yeah, some of the early stuff I scribbled down was about that link earlier today - the one abt coercion etc - and the whole question of rules - and what to do with those who can't or won't abide by them ... Sadam springs 2 mind ... or the prison system ... and we can philosophise till the cows come home ... oops, almost forgot the trickiest minefield of all the 'rules' discussion ... parenting :)

Also on that bus (as I read pages 408 onward) ... a woman opposite me was carrying a copy of 'When bad things happen to good people', which I haven't actually read but it's a question I've often wrestled with ... (without a lot of success in terms of resolving it)

That DVD

Peter Dombrovskis

Ken MacLeod

Kim Levin

Ditto

A Thousand Campfires

Bush poetry - that's poetry from the Aussie bush, not the guy who's currently trying to run the world :)

Oh yes, also heard this little ditty for the first time in ages ... on the bus back to Franskton ...

{Interesting site name }

Madagascar {who's aga?}

911 ... I heard a recitation the other night but not sure if this was it ... it was by Rob Pinsky ...

[  September 14, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "I'm (usually) better than your local medical expert."

Interesting emails again this morning ... esp the stuff by John Landau & others on this page ... and the other 'interesting mental health sites' I have found over the years ... and it seems a few others are looking for similar stuff ... :)

Testing ...

More sites from the morning's meanderinks ...

John Landau & others ...

Excerpt from that chapter I was readin on the bus yesterday

More funny stuff ...

Nice little forum :)

Bit more Frasier :)

Scribbled down a ton of thoughts walking home from the shops on another evry warm day ... so many that I may type them into a sep file ... stay tuned :)

Sweating too! And the first day in months I've stepped outside wearing only a T-shirt!

(PLus trousers and shoes)

Okay, here's a small sample of those thoughts I mentioned ... click

[  September 15, 2002   '




Today's mantra: "Hmmm ... I forgot to include a mantra this morning - can you invent your own - or just sing a few word from the next song you happen to hear ..."

ADDTV - quite amusing lyrics on the ep I saw - like that Bob Dylan song where he flips large pieces of cardboard with the song lyrics ... "AHOY, AHOY ... SISSY SUFFERED ... SOLDIERS ... JUICY MEN EMBALMED ... LUNG NEARLY GONE ..." - probably a send-up of pretentious lyrics or soemthing like that ... :)

Some more wisdom from the lads - click

Why do we exist at all? Where we created by a kind and lonely God? Did our minds pop up from magic matter? Maybe we were invented by a high-tech civilization from deep space which like the gods remains hidden? Could there be Another explanation to it all?

- click {send 2 insp peak?}

Another interesting search from that phrase ... click

Also kinda ties in with last evening's ep of South Park :)

Why the solitary life? - a whole bunch of excellent stuff at this site ...
found it via a search for this memorable phrase ...

Added several recent links 2 this vast, ever-expanding list ... kaleidoscope eyes ... some quotes ... poems etc ... making of a shaman ...

An old favurite - seems there's some dud links over at my angelfire site ... well, it is a free web host, so I can't complain 2 loudly, can I ... :)

What's this? Third warm day in a row and Monday promises to be a vast contrats to just seven days ago - last monday was brisk & chilly till well after noon ... with this strong northerly the overnight ought to be quite warm and probably several degrees higher than last Monday's top temp ...

{Update: Yes, indeed - the forecast is for it not to drop below 20 overnight, whereas last Monday it struggled all day to creep above ten!}

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