Jack Cummins

The understanding which I have of mindfulness of thoughts is not about undue introspection. In meditation generally, there is a focus upon breath and ...

The thing which I find puts me off this site and another one I use is that it often seems to be the most inflammatory statements which get a lot of re...

I think that I need a bit of mindfulness to take the edge off things. Definitely it has a role to play and when getting stressed by online forums it m...

Obviously, people on the forum have a right to express opinions, but the thread on 'changing sex' makes me feel so miserable that I am wondering if I ...

It is interesting to think about mindfulness as a form of pacification. I had thought about that in relation to religious ideas generally, but not in ...

I was not involved in end of life care but I definitely found that ideas of treatment were affected by some religious beliefs. Also, in conjunction wi...

I definitely look to all traditions for ideas that work. What I found when I was working in the helping profession in London, up until a year and a ha...

I looked at the article you linked and I do see what you mean and I am not in favour of being 'happy and clappy'. Some of the kinds of therapies which...

I am glad to hear that practitioners in your part of the world are looking to Eastern wisdom. I think that it is possible that mindfulness was a craze...

Some people who use the term mindfulness seem almost oblivious to the roots of the word and idea. It does seem that this may be related to possible 'e...

I don't know why everyone makes such a big issue out of sex chromosomes. The majority of people have not had chromosome tests and would not even know ...

I have read a few of Castaneda's books. I have come across some suggestions that they are all 'made up'. Even if they are fictitious, they still repre...

When I spoke of opposites, the idea was about them as principles and was not saying how they play out in life. In particular, I am not meaning that re...

There are many opposites: the yin and yang, good and evil, day and night, male and female, mind and body. They are the extremes and it is hard to know...

Psychosis can be an extremely terrifying experience and one of my friends is in psychiatric hospital as a result of a psychotic episode. I have worked...

Do you think Jungian therapy is London oriented. It was not easy to find a Jungian therapist and I was undertaking therapy because it was a requiremen...

The worse experience related to reading about dreams when I was about 16 and first came across Freud's ideas I dreamt that I had a gun and shot my fat...

Strangely, I have experienced less of my inner right eye imagery since starting the thread. It reminds me of when I was having Jungian therapy and was...

I haven't read Monroe in any depth but I may do at some point. I definitely don't think that dreams are meaningless and think that it is a great shame...

We probably all have to be careful of not falling into the role of 'charlatan' and I don't wish to become one by starting this thread. So, for others ...

Your points of clarification are extremely important because blurring of all the aspects may make the topic more confusing. Even though I think that m...

I put this thread into the Lounge because in some ways it is a fairly 'sensitive' area, as if people disclose dream experiences it may be a bit privat...

I have done some research on eyes and one of the mechanisms which is meant to be important is the phosphenes in the eyes. I have a friend who has mult...

There may be various forms of lucid dreams, such as the hypopompic and hypnagogic ones. I have had one strange thing recently though. Since last autum...

Yes, I am glad he is okay. Names and nicknames are significant though. I can remember being called ET when I was school, which was probably because I ...

Part of the problem may be that online we are disembodied characters. Online identity is so different from people meeting. We build and construct our ...

Individual awareness is likely to survive the death of the avatar but our awareness may be affected by it. Both you and I have human names and mine is...

I don't think that the Madfool's spirit is gone. You just need to look for clues, even hidden in this thread. You are almost being a physicalist by th...

I already asked the question about the Madfool and was given a fairly decent answer. You would find that if you look back to pages on this thread, abo...

Yes, it is probably unlikely that time reversal could happen as a real possibility because it would involve the reverse chains of causality. It would ...

One idea of an imaginary possibility which is unlikely but not cannot be ruled out is that of time's arrow reversing. I came across it in ' The Death ...

At first, when I saw your word agnotology I thought that you had made it up. But, I pressed on the word and saw that exist. So, I have learned somethi...

I am wondering if you are thinking of the paranormal, which is often shelved next to philosophy in libraries. Of course, there is parapsychology as a ...

I haven't come across anyone who has said that they feel angry about people believing in life after death, although I am aware that being preached to ...

Your post above is rather surreal.

Twisted and Stuck I am not sure if I am alive or dead. I know that I had too much wine to drink and everything went black. But, this chamber made of a...

I like the prompt of being locked in a crystal cube, so will have a go at it a bit later today or tomorrow. It's a pity that a few more people are not...

I like the story and the idea of a grasshopper therapist. I think that I could do with such a therapist, so perhaps I should look for one in the garde...

It is interesting to compare the approach of the novelist and the scientist making formulas. It is not as if one is more 'real' than the other, althou...

What I have found on psychology courses is that they focus often on the lower scale of needs. Maslow was saying that the basis for moving on to the hi...

I had a go at the second prompt in the post above. Blue Mash I couldn't take it any longer. Since Ray got the sack from the bookshop he had become a c...

Here are couple more prompts from 'The Pocket Muse': 'Write about your earliest superstition. 'Write about an escalating dispute between two normally ...

An interesting comparison between writing and CPR. I have attended training in CPR and don't find it easy. One tutor took me through slowly and showed...

I still want to play, but just haven't been feeling well for a few days, but I will be back with new prompts and I will have a go at more flash fictio...

@Hanover Without going off topic I am afraid that I do get messages saying, 'Data warning' and that I have used too much data, especially when I have ...

I am extremely interested that you have read Alice Bailey's book, 'Glamour'. I have read it as well as some other books by her. The argument in her bo...

Thanks for your useful feedback and I do see the need to reach a climax. I am aware that in various exercises which I did in creative writing groups t...

Prompt: I have come across short story collections which are on the theme of particular groups' songs. I read one based on songs by the theme of songs...

I am extremely interested in Western esoteric thinking and wishing to discuss it rather than have to listen to a podcast. Using podcasts uses up most ...

Here is my attempt for your prompt: The Dying Philosopher King I'm crouched down under my desk in the dark. My chosen place to die, my tomb, with book...