What do you believe, is it true? I list a couple of mine. The photo above is an old fascination in belief, Sufism, the Whirling Dervishes. For a time I tried to whirl at a local sufi gathering I attended for around 6 months. Quite a belief, whirling to become still. Belief might be religious or opinion. God unquestionably exists in consciousness, as does good and evil. I believe in many things, then there are facts. Human perception is governed by belief. I also believe in good and evil, Christ being the representation of goodness. I believe in something other beyond human perception, belief is central to the human condition.
Having been in coma for 3 months and the subsequent research I now believe consciousness is reality, not just an epiphenomenon of the brain. In the video section below theorists suggest rather than matter consciousness is the universe. Matter is the stage for interaction between conscious agents. Our individuality is altered consciousness of the collective, multiple personality disorder. They question the existence of matter without consciousness. Science too questions the independent existence of matter saying particles require perception to exist. In quantum mechanics entanglement theory, perception is required for particles to actualise a state. Something proven in physics by the double slit experiment.
Music
I played bass and sang in a band, The Silent Reach
- Madradeus
- This Mortal Coil
- Craig Armstrong
- Max Richter
- David Sylvian
- Ryuchi Sakamoto
- Art of fighting
- Tinder Sticks
- Crime and the City Solution
- Joy Division
- Groove Armada
- Died Pretty
- U2
- Bauhaus
- Pete Murphy
- Nick Cave
- PJ Harvey
- The Church
- Steve Kilbey
- Djivian Gasparayn
- Durutti Column
- Michael Nyman
- Low
- Sigur Ros
- Dead can Dance
- Gavin Bryars
- GB3
- Mahler
- Bach
- Handel
- Tan Dun
- Gorecki
- Duraffle
- Faure
Books
- The Trial
- The Castle
- Our Hearts, my Face, Brief as Photos
- To the Wedding
- Here is Where We Meet
- Narcissus and Goldmund
- Siddhartha
- Steppenwolf
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Zorba the Greek
- Nausea
- The Age of Reason
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Fictions
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Space Odyssey
- Eyes Wide Shut
- A Clockwork Orange
- Dr Strangelove
Film
- Space Odyssey 2001
- Solaris
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Nostalgia
- Gattaca
- Prosperous Books
- The Wings of Desire
- Franny and Alexander
- Koyanisquatsi
- In the Mood for Love
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Powaquatsi
- Dogville
- Transcendence
- Babette’s Feast
- Coffee and Cigarettes
- Ex Machina
Travel
- Deutschland
- Singapore
- Australia
- France
- England
- Morocco
- Egypt
- Turkey
- Norway
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- Poland
- India
- Thailand
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Phillipines
- Greece
- Vietnam
- Bali
- Italy
- Japan
- China
- Spain
- Ireland
- Yugoslavia
- Czech Republic
- Croatia
- Scotland
- Taiwan
- New Caledonia
- Myanmar
- USA
- Syria
- Israel
- Palestine