Allan G. Hunter's Blog, page 79
June 24, 2011
New Consciousness Review Radio interview
This link should take you to my most recent radio interview, with Miriam Knight, of New Consciousness Review. The topic? Synchronicity.
June 23, 2011
Positive World Radio Network
Yesterday I had the delight of being interviewed for The Positive World Radio Network, and I'll be posting the link as soon as it becomes available. What was doubly pleasurable was that I was interviewed by our very own Miriam Knight, the genius behind New Consciousness Review, where I also post my blogs.
All of which perhaps matters very little to the casual observer, until we realize that the conversations we start here, right here on these pages, have a wider effect, and that through the knock-on effects of circumstances and chance we find ourselves bringing our thoughts to a larger public. This is synchronicity in action - and since my latest book is called 'The Path Of Synchronicity" I like that it is finding its way forward in this fashion.
The two lessons that emerge, therefore, are these: first, that no conversation is ever completely closed and private, for good discussions tend to grow in ways we can't imagine; and second, be thoughtful in how you discuss what you discuss, since poor ideas will also spread!
June 22, 2011
Sell Your Soul
A friend alerted me to this site. No, it's not a Faustian bargain of unlimited wealth provided one forfeits one's immortal soul to the devil. Wall Street already has that one covered.
Instead it's a site that urges people to turn their wisdom (their souls) into a paying business proposition, and get rich that way using social media.
In a world where we already have plenty of bogus gurus, should we not be very cautious about this?
June 21, 2011
Love at First Sight
I came out of a movie with a friend of mine, and we talked about the acting for a while over a beer; and then he said of the female lead, "She's delightful. I so fell in love with her in this."
These were words from an intelligent and worldly man, notice.
How could he have fallen in love with a screen image, and done it so readily? Every tabloid proclaimed the actress to be, in real life, decidedly hard to like, let alone love.
The power of Hollywood, I thought.
But several days later I had a different take. It's the absence of real knowledge about a person that allows us to "fall in love" with a fleeting image of someone. And that's always been seen as infatuation or delusion. But what if this situation contains some useful knowledge. Perhaps it tells us that we're very capable of loving people, perhaps most people, right away. It's only when we know them better and realize they have quirks that make them hard to live with that we decide we don't match up well, or that our feelings were mistaken. Then we stop loving them.
Perhaps that idealized first emotion is, in some instances, the moment when we look past the surface differences. We see past the mud and are aware of the diamond caught in it. Experience tells us to focus on the mud, though.
Let's try to re-value that initial moment when we see, perhaps, what is eternal in even the most flawed of human beings. Let the divine in you salute the divine in others, and try to move past anything else.
Then we can re-think 'love at first sight'.
June 20, 2011
The Trouble with the Truth
The trouble is that people have a lot of difficulty accepting the truth about things, and especially about themselves.
Yet there seems no end to the eagerness we all have to swallow the most outrageous untruths about practically everything.
How do we reconcile these two aspects?
June 18, 2011
Bugarach
It's not a word you hear every day. You may be hearing it more often, though, as it's the small village in France that many of the 2012 disaster/apocalypse believers feel will be the only place not destroyed when the Mayan calendar ends. That's where they're congregating.
Real estate prices there are (currently) booming.
Meanwhile people in Syria are fleeing to Turkey; Libyans are fleeing to Egypt; Yemenis are fleeing anywhere they can; Palestinians have no where to flee to; and Chinese people are fleeing the flooding Yangtze.
What do we make of this? Perhaps the desire for safety is the thing we could focus on? Perhaps we in the west have invented a physical crisis so that we can reach a spiritual turning point?
When the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 I do not believe the world will end - although I do think we can use that thought as a call to wake us all up and start to love the lives we could be living, in peace and harmony. It'd be a change from the lives of selfishness and meanness we currently seem to be choosing, at any rate.
June 17, 2011
Cakes and time
My great-grandmother Hayes (according to my father) would always insist on fresh-baked cakes for Sunday High Tea. Appetizing and dusted with powered sugar, they'd appear at table, along side the cream and home-made jam. But they carried one proviso. No one could taste the fresh cakes until the stale ones from last week had been eaten first.
So every week the family would dutifully chew the stale cakes, until finally they were all gone. At this point no one wanted any more cake of any sort.
And so the fresh cakes were put back in the cupboard, to re-emerge the following week, stale and tasteless.
Week after week, no one ever got to eat the fresh cakes. Grandma's generosity, and her love and hard work in baking, were undermined by her sense of what was "right" and by her frugality. No one had a good time.
Generosity is for here and now. Love, also, is for right now.
Eat fresh cakes.
Time and Tide
Every time in my life that I've waited for others to deliver on a promise, every time I've tried to arrange myself around those sorts of events that were in flux and couldn't be decided now, I've wasted my time.
Now, that situation is not uncommon. In fact most of life is spent with uncertainties that are not within our control. But that's not the point. The point is not to stop living, to hold your breath and wait, while the rest of the world makes up its mind whether or not it's going to deliver. The point is to live your life anyway, as joyfully and as exuberantly as possible. Live now.
June 16, 2011
Back On Course
To those of you who noticed a temporary glitch with the website today, many apologies. Updating caused part of it to evaporate — for a while. Now it's all back where it ought to be. I think….
