I'm dipping in for the first time after a recommendation of your work was made to me at a reading I gave last night.
Three years ago, I cast my life away in order to make solutions for myself. After 20 years of writing full-length fiction, my own substack now charts the journey I began towards self-sufficiency.
It's only at the end of things that we can see their meaning.
Looking forward to watching your conversation with Ian. Wish I had the time to engage with you on this next round on Zoom but simply have neither the time nor the mind acreage for the time being. I did share some thoughts when I finally replied last month to an email you sent 'top end' supporters last November (from a gmail account). (I am definitely not a speedy writer! Much more a visual artist.) I suggested that there are larger cultural/historical contexts that appear to be overlooked in this discussion. What I did not go into is the inner ecology/geography/connectiveness of the human consciousness. I hope you got it. If not, let me know with a functioning email address and I'll resend.
Your writing post-DM has had an ongoing impact on my journeys in what are mostly the liminal realms where Nature, myth, history, and dreams converge like unknown oceans of unplumbed depths. It is a challenge figuring out how to fit experiences like those into conversations in forums such as this! 'Ruins' continues to simultaneously simmer and emit enzymes in my psyche. Not many non-fiction books do that for me these days. Cheers!
I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with McGilchrist. I first read 'The Master and His Emissary' in 2014 after Harsha Perera (a bookselling buddy no-less) lent it to me, and often go back to it and quote from it.
It's great that he has an unfashionable opinion about humour, that nothing should be off-limits.
This was awesome Dougald. I’ve been recommended IaIn’s books so many times in the last couple of years, I’ll get stuck into it soon.
It’s always enjoyable seeing someone like Iain get into that groove in an interview or podcast where there’s not much need for questions, he’ll just keep going along his train of thought uninterrupted for minutes. He’s given me much to think about. You both have, thank you.
I'm still listening to the Hine / McGilchrist conversation. Pausing a moment to express my delight in the talk entering into making an important distinction between knowing (a verb which pertains to a present moment process) and knowledge, a noun identifying a quasi-substance that just sort of hangs out in books and in static "minds". This, and other related topics, have really attracted my attention lately. So it's fun to hear folks talking about what I'm contemplating!
Hello Dougald,
I'm dipping in for the first time after a recommendation of your work was made to me at a reading I gave last night.
Three years ago, I cast my life away in order to make solutions for myself. After 20 years of writing full-length fiction, my own substack now charts the journey I began towards self-sufficiency.
It's only at the end of things that we can see their meaning.
Love. Peace. Solidarity.
https://walkingwithgoats.substack.com/p/the-why-that-goes-in-all-directions
Thanks Dougald for doing what you are doing!
Looking forward to watching your conversation with Ian. Wish I had the time to engage with you on this next round on Zoom but simply have neither the time nor the mind acreage for the time being. I did share some thoughts when I finally replied last month to an email you sent 'top end' supporters last November (from a gmail account). (I am definitely not a speedy writer! Much more a visual artist.) I suggested that there are larger cultural/historical contexts that appear to be overlooked in this discussion. What I did not go into is the inner ecology/geography/connectiveness of the human consciousness. I hope you got it. If not, let me know with a functioning email address and I'll resend.
Your writing post-DM has had an ongoing impact on my journeys in what are mostly the liminal realms where Nature, myth, history, and dreams converge like unknown oceans of unplumbed depths. It is a challenge figuring out how to fit experiences like those into conversations in forums such as this! 'Ruins' continues to simultaneously simmer and emit enzymes in my psyche. Not many non-fiction books do that for me these days. Cheers!
I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation with McGilchrist. I first read 'The Master and His Emissary' in 2014 after Harsha Perera (a bookselling buddy no-less) lent it to me, and often go back to it and quote from it.
It's great that he has an unfashionable opinion about humour, that nothing should be off-limits.
This was awesome Dougald. I’ve been recommended IaIn’s books so many times in the last couple of years, I’ll get stuck into it soon.
It’s always enjoyable seeing someone like Iain get into that groove in an interview or podcast where there’s not much need for questions, he’ll just keep going along his train of thought uninterrupted for minutes. He’s given me much to think about. You both have, thank you.
I'm still listening to the Hine / McGilchrist conversation. Pausing a moment to express my delight in the talk entering into making an important distinction between knowing (a verb which pertains to a present moment process) and knowledge, a noun identifying a quasi-substance that just sort of hangs out in books and in static "minds". This, and other related topics, have really attracted my attention lately. So it's fun to hear folks talking about what I'm contemplating!
Very much enjoyed the conversation with Iain, one of those rarer ones which succeeded in putting yet more flesh on Iain’s work.