Glass Houses

There are also some others I group, partly because of their stone tones, also because of the shapes. Distinctive iPhone finger painting. I came up with the name glass houses, linking the stones and the finger pointing.

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Net Works

I have been working on the iPhone making images for a while now. There is a swag of them on Flickr. It is fascinating how different apps (and I think I have them all!) lead me to create different styles. Here are two that I spotted today that I can imagine in a larger series, I am not sue how I made them now, I don’t think the “series” would be dependant on the methods used anyway.

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Blog on iPhone

For some reason the iphone friendly plugin did not work on this blog
so I disabeled it.

Then I discovered that if I went to the blog via the Google reader the
whole thing was formatted for the phone.

Google everything. Scary how so many cloud computing works best
through Google. Email, RSS reader, all hard to beat. An American
advertising corporation. I can feel resistance coming on.

Later:

Not so good though, links don’t work as expected.

Rankism

Wikipedia

Rankism Knol article Robert Fuller

Biblography

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

New Dimensions Interview

Reading & listening to Robert Fuller got me thinking how he connects to the Marshall Rosenberg NVC, and all the dialogue material. I want to integrate!

Fear of banishment, need to be included, primal, we need to belong to the trib or we die.

Fuller is an expert on this major human need. Understanding needs is vital, and he seems to get this one. Needs are the missing link in psychotherapy – Maslows contribution is major – but it seemed the last word, and was not integrated into any modality that I know of.

Blue pill or Red pill psychotherapy

Perhaps you are almost falling out of the consensus world, and becoming more conscious, challenging those around you in ways they don’t like. Maybe you are getting closer to the underlying truth of your life. You don’t need to obey, and nor do you need to harm others to be who you really are. But you may need to *develop new roles*, it could be hard, unpleasant. Maybe you are not very good yet at getting around in the place where you are more real.

How will therapy help you?

Ease you back into the matrix? Help you into the more authentic world where you will feel more vulnerable?

Which way do you want to go?

I think most psychotherapists will ask you that question – after all sometimes the easier more pleasant path is all you can manage for now. For now… inauthentic life is not really an option is it?

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How do the social scientists measure the effectiveness of psychotherapy? Or more to the point how do insurance people measure it?

Wastes of Asphodel

I like the sound of it: Wastes of Asphodel in the poem in the last post. It is a deep dark place somewhere that I think of as cyberspace, removed yet connected to the world. As more and more people do their banking and blog about their day and so on, as cyberspace becomes more mundane with blinking banners urging us to buy, will these wastes become malls?

Sort of. But not quite. Land is land and dreams are dreams. For all the pixilated neon, it remains virtual. There is a dream world. In Dreams in Late Antiquity By Patricia Cox Miller (Google Amazon) shows how it is the other world, the world of dreams.

A passage from the book follows.

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