Escape & Evasion!

It's the simple things that serve to liberate us.

Great company, good music, group-consciousness...!

It's wonderful to be "up 'n' around" again, and able to enjoy some top sounds. in the company of friends. System7 @ Hendre Hall, 6th May. A lovely vibe throughout. It was also cwl to NOT be working. It's been a long time since I was part of a crowd at an event like this. Such a situation doesn't happen nearly enough for my liking. I'd forgotten what it's like to go OUT to RELAX!

Mmmm... that looks even wyrder in writing than it did in my head...!

ZONES!

I've just re-read Hakim Bey's inspirational Essay "TAZ". It has brought back memories of magickal summer festivals, and spontaneous tribal gatherings. But I was also reminded about how a Temporary Autonomous Zone can be a state of mind, as well as an event in space/time.

I've been riding this train of thought for a couple of days. Last stop on the trip, is to secure the status of PAZ for my state of mind. Permanent Freedom. Permanent Inner-Peace. Quite a destination, and maybe NOT as far away as it seems, or for that matter, as difficult.

But it's one step at a time, right?

For the moment, my Inner TAZ develops, even when it's dormant. Increasing in complexity all the time. Ready for activation at a moment's notice. No need for it ever to be fully disclosed. No-one else has the correct password anyway. Just as I am not permitted access to anyone else's psychic paradise.

So, I guess a quiet wee revolution has begun...

"The TAZ is 'utopian' in the sense that it envisions an intensification of everyday life, or as the Surrealists might have said, life's penetration by the Marvelous." -Hakim Bey.

Finally...

Progress.

Spring has brought with it a step or two in a positive direction. A little sunshine, good company, great music...!

I'm back on the "O-Team" again!

Finally got to the bottom of my psychological woes. The test has been a broken promise here, a disappointment there, a sprinkling of hypocracy. It's all tried to get me down, but my new techniques are paying off, and I remain... HAPPY....!

I'm feelin' kinda smug about this. There have been recent events that would've had me totally enraged, but I'm seeing things in a very different way now. "Seeing things".... Mmmm...

... Anyway, no more repeating mistakes. No more unrealistic expectations. More Temporary Autonomous Zones...

...More about TAZs soon....

Pain...

What a week...!
A torn muscle has given me some serious back-pain this week! Just as the Spring arrives, and my thoughts move to walking in the hills, I get confined to my home, with little comfort in sight for quite a while.
Moments of relief come through lying flat on the floor, and employing a suitable herbal remedy, but moving around is a pretty grim experience. I'm playing a waiting game...!
Determined to make the best of my current position, I have been catching up on some reading, and generally turning my thoughts to distracting subjects, with limited success though...

So, it's onwards with painkiller cocktails, and intoxicating vapours!