New Blogger

Finally had to sign up for the new Blogger. It was mostly painless. Conversion wasn't obligatory so I didn't have to do much work on my six blogs (six!). However I have converted the jayarava rave over, and that necesitated a change of template. Actually I think it looks better now.

For a great dose of artisto-Buddhist weirdness take a look at Gunasara's MySpace - the blue robe he's wearing is his ordination robe :-) Touch of Dada there. A gentle trickle of FWBO people making it onto MySpace - it's an easy way to get a webpresence I suppose, although I'm not convinced that it is any better than having a webpage and a blog (or six). Many of the MySpace layouts - which are created on 3rd party websites - suck terribly. Too wide, can't read the text because of back ground images, and sound files that start whether you want them to or not. Yuck.

The latest rave goes back to Gombrich and the 2006 lecture series - metaphors. Cool stuff and I can only hope that he'll publish them soon. There's an interview with Gombrich on the Ordinary Mind wesbite which is interesting.

I've been relistening to the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures by V. S. Ramachandran on The Emerging Mind. His theory of language, particularly metaphor, involving cross activation in the brain (aka synaesthesia) is very interesting and one that I hope to work into my thesis on mantra.

This looks promising

Newish Buddhist blog: Old Pond. Most recent post is on Buddhism and science. And they link to me, so they can't be all bad :) I don't get much time to read blogs these days. I've been writing a big chunk on Buddhist archetypal psychology which has been a joy. Freed from the leash of references and citations, and simply drawing on my own experience most of the time I have been able to just write and it has been flowing quite freeely. The manuscript is out with a reader at the moment, and I hope to have something finished before the end of the year. A few things have been falling into place in my thinking, and resulting in a few good Raves coming up.