Posts tagged with 'consciousness'
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: memory and the autobiographical self 1
10th January 2011
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." Mark Twain I wrote last month about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in his recent book - "Emotions and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 2
3rd January 2011
I wrote an initial blog post last month on "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview". I commented that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 1
20th December 2010
I wrote last week about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and autobiographical self". I mentioned that …
Meeting at relational depth: what intrigued me most
25th October 2010
I've already written a couple of blog posts about the workshop I went to on Saturday - "Meeting at relational depth: outline of a 'research' workshop" and "Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?". However it was the second exercise we were asked to try out that I found …
Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?
24th October 2010
"A consultation is when the room disappears." David Reilly (physician) On Saturday I went to a course called "Meeting at relational depth: a research workshop". I have already written a first post outlining the day. After staying overnight in Glasgow with a friend who was also coming to the course, …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (ninth post)
27th March 2009
Here's a ninth Moroccan post - coming out of the desert - dancing, cold beer, mindfulness & consciousness Here in the civilisation of Hotel Irocha, I woke early and then got up with the first tentative muezzin call from the local village. It's now a bit before 5.00am. I've been …
A couple of interesting, helpful websites
21st February 2009
Here are a couple of very interesting, helpful websites that I've been reminded of recently. They illustrate in a fun way the diversity and possibilities of the internet. The first is http://www.meetup.com/ which calls itself the "World's largest community of local Meetups, clubs and groups" with its strapline "Do something, …