My Umbilical

In the blink of an eye my umbilical to the world is severed. I had a rather slow wireless connection beamed off Sheemore, an enigmatic hill to the northwest of me with 3 megaliths on its summit. Now, I have radio silence and must ride my bike to my neighbours Willie & Natalia’s to log on. They are connected to the same transmitter but run Windows as opposed to my Linux. That seems to be the source of the problem. What to do next is the question.

I feel cut off from the world and am even tongue-tied. This is strange. I love my online connection. I knew when I first heard of the internet that it was a way for me to live in the countryside. This has proved to be the case to the point where I now feel solitary and at a loss for words. Normally I can just glide over to the keyboard and let fly. Now, breathless from the bike ride, I try to think up things to say. Certainly I will be inspired on the homeward run which is all downhill.

I am buzzing from reading Carl Jung’s thoughts on consciousness. He says that raising individual consciousness is the purpose of life. I have a feeling that he is absolutely right. In his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections he also talks about designing and living in his own home. He says of this that he never felt so much himself. I’m inclined to agree. If we put those two things together then perhaps we can increase our understanding of the nature of Living Architecture which seems to offer the possibility of higher consciousness. Clearly this not for everyone but it suits me just fine.

He also goes on a lot about the space-time relationship which I have been mulling over myself. People don’t realise that our concept of time dates from the Industrial Revolution when national or transnational train timetables had to be devised! Before that local time was good enough. With the Internat we now have global time! The good old 24/7 syndrome. This drives me crazy. I like local time. At the moment I am rising at dawn when I wake, ignoring timepieces altogether. I eat when I am hungry and sleep when I am tired. I gauge time from the position of the sun in the sky. Conveniently my computer clock has gone haywire.

Hopefully I will be wired up again shortly and can resume my usual blather. In the meantime we are readying ourselves for the arrival of the EconoSpace wood. This is due to arrive next week. I have also decided to create a pond to drain the site where the building will stand. I will keep you posted on developments and shoot some video to accompany this.