ECHOES OF THE ROAD

The hyperlinks don’t always connect with me right away - I have never been quick of mind or sharp of with. So the hyperlinks that resulted in the title of this post go back some way. I like listening to podcasts that are recorded outside the studio - I love the back ground noise over the speaking and recall several episodes of Spiritual Unfoldment where John Butler is speaking in his usual quiet, reflective manner in a cafe with the back ground chatter and noises of the coffee making complementing this. This is common with several podcasts I listen to that are not recorded in a studio s oulcruzer crimbo limbo  and strangers on a bench . I listened last week to Ferns February Found Sounds where Alice Boyd was chatting with Darren Appiagyei a wood worker in London. Alice is really adept at capturing outdoor sounds and incorporating them into her music. A few days later she put a video on YouTube of her going about London collecting sounds for a use in a future date.  As I list...

  I saw a video on YT that featured a short AI generated summary narrative of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance. It gave me insights that I did not appreciate at the time I read it classical thinking is the motorcycle (a logical organised machine) and romantic thinking (the art of riding and being at one with the machine). It was obvious as the story progressed     that separation of the two ways of thinking was a more recent phenomena and bad thing. At a point well into the book Robert introduced a third theme of ‘quality’ this played with my brain and, like space-time,    I could sometime see it but not quite grasp it. I actually finished the book with a bit of confusion that I have pondered since. The AI put it in away that made sense by mentioning spirituality as it described quality.  As I reflect on my life so far, I set out, as a classical thinker. There was a period of time when classical immature attitude had me look down on my student coll...