qualia and other wildlife: haiku

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FIRE IN THE HEAD
writing courses & retreats website:
www.roselle-angwin.co.uk

THE WILD WAYS
ecopsychology/ecosoul courses & retreats:

http://thewildways.co.uk

In the 1970s I studied Celtic and early mediaeval French myths and legends in their original languages at Cambridge. In the 1980s I began a counselling training in Transpersonal Psychology, with an emphasis on archetypes and the psychology of myth. From this grew my first workshops in 1991: 'Myth as Metaphor', out of which was commissioned my first book. Riding the Dragon – myth & the inner journey was published by Element Books in 1994.

I'm also a poet in the bardic tradition, with my roots deep in the natural world, essayist and novelist.

More importantly, perhaps, I'm immersed in an ecocentric worldview, and feel very strongly that we need to adopt this approach fast, as a species.

For thirty years now I've designed and led courses that bring together creativity, attention to our inner world as well as anima mundi, and a deepening of our relationships with the rest of the natural world through outdoor experience, poetry, story and myth. My courses and writings reflect all this.

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Welcome to these words, friends, and I hope you find something of interest here. I'd love it if you signed up to follow (bottom), told others about and/or linked to this blog, commented or of course bought a book! If you know of a blog I might like to check out, do please tell me.

I'm passionate about many things, but I'm increasingly realising that one way or another they're all about relationship: our interconnectedness, and finding ways to make conscious and wise our relationship to self and other (in which I include all species and the planet). Something to do with being earthstuff and starstuff both, all of us, and learning how to cherish. See my 2 websites, above.

And 'qualia'? Well, loosely, the quality of individual subjective conscious experience; eg the perception of a colour, or experience of a journey; our experience of person-ness. (G defines it neatly: 'Qualia are what save us from being machines.') Sits nicely, in my imagination, with quanta. Quanta & qualia. Like bookends. Or pillars of the temple. Or cats – heaven forbid...

qualia and other wildlife

from BARDO

Monday 10 December 2012

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