Dear Je Kan,

"( just cannot use the language..smile)"

Please indulge me!

What I am desperately pleading for (not demanding or imposing) is a form of language that doesn't impose definitive categories upon nature (including human nature), yet allows us to acknowledge distinctive dynamic localities in the flow. Every time someone uses the 'whole' word (and its many derivatives), even and especially with the best of intentions, I feel a stab of pain in the heart of my soul. Such language is not to my mind mindful, but neglectful.

I am pleading for a language of allusion (and a mathematics of allusion, for that matter, see poems below) that allows me and us to breathe in a limitless pool, not suffocate in a stagnant pond. I have given a lot of attention to what that kind of language could be like, and am continually working on it. I am not demanding that others use my language, but inviting them mindfully to reflect on the implications of theirs - and attune this where apt.

And talking about 'survival', I note that the atomistic neglecters are about to start up their fiendish machine (the Large Hadron Collider) again, God help us.


Love

Alan

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A Language of Allusion


We searched the sures of here and there
And everywhere
To find a language of allusion
Which saves us from conclusion
Before the high and mighty
Who dooms us to occlusion
Through unforgiving passion
For what’s been done and done by
All in the name of fashion

A judgement freed from lenience
That saves the inconvenience
Of taking stock of silence
Amidst the ruthless measure
Yet in that absence misses
The flow between the kisses
Which turns what’s marked by crosses

From signs of wrong to right

For when that fine illusion
Of wording’s fixed intrusion
Admits its lacked dimension
Of infinity in tension
The song sounding in its lyrics
Waxes into revelation
Of nakedness trembling with exhilaration
Beneath the harsh lining of its clothes

And in that shivering of hope and fear
All pretension falls from flaw to floor
No longer shrieking dreadful oaths
Against the marriage that it loathes
Between the sweet resistance of response
And what is held in open arms
That seek embrace in gentle warmth
Not that ice-hot war of words that harms


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The Devil In the Definition

The Devil lives in the definition
That place to secure lofty ambition
In a Whole with no Ground
For looking around
At what’s gone missing

From mouths without kissing

No opening space
For lives sunk without trace
In spirit strained free from compassion
Where we’re told it’s in fashion
The bliss of the blessed
To dress with no hole
For suffering soul
To find love in its heart
Whilst falling apart
Transfixed in becoming distressed

Where smile fixes to grin
Above jutting chin
On the face that speaks of the need
To stay wilfully positive
In the face of the weed
Whose cries suck you in
To a place indescribably negative

Where doubt finds out
You’re not wearing a clout
Because in a dress with no hole
There’s no room for your soul
And that’s what’s gone missing

From mouths sealed from kissing

---

Return From Calculus

To differentiate is not to define!
They put the cart before the horse
So that the poor thing got stuck in a rut
Those argumentative back-projectors
Newton and Liebniz
Whose deepest desire
Was to come first
Like Adam before Eve
On the Eve of their Fall

By cutting out space

From within the curve

Leaving the line shattered
Into helpless nonentities
Disguised as identities
By imposing minds

So that to integrate
We need only to add
What they failed to subtract
In their infinite regression

From All down to nought

But not quite

That informing presence
Adrift in our Time
Male without female
A self-negating false positive
With nowhere to hide
That takes us along
For its forgetful ride

Until some One gives notice
He can no longer bear
His harsh isolation

From somewhere to care

And rejoins his partner
In joyful communion
An affair of the heart
Where absence makes fonder
After millennia apart

And in that reunion
We need hardly add
What should never have been put asunder
By defining what’s bad

A place that’s beneath us
As we soar to great heights
Before returning the home
Subtracted from substance
To make solid figures
Meaningless in the absence
Of what needs them to care
For the receptive silence
Of everywhere

No, differentiation isn’t what’s wanted
To look askance
But it is what’s needed
To configure variety
In complex self-dance
Of one within other
Transfigured by chance

Everywhere needs somewhere to love

--On 20 November 2009 11:45 +0900 Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Karen, Thank you for your email which I enjoyed very much. I usually
lurk on this list as the language is often hard for me to get my head
round as I try to see how it can inform my practice. However I do love
the philosophical aspect of the discussions as well. Working in Asia as I
do, I try to imagine how I can make much of what is said understandable
outside of the lists context. I am with Alan on much of his thinking (
just cannot use the language..smile) as it links so deeply with Buddhist
mindfulness. You said : But then why are men more spatially aware than
women, in general, and better at certain tasks which involve detail and
dexterity. I have to question that as I have seen so many women working
in  terrible conditions in Asian countries as factory workers assembling
intricate computer parts, soldering and doing so many tasks for western
consumerism as the labor cost is cheap. I believe that there are
biological difference in the sexes that are just biology, take the
physical constraints out of being a hunter gather and give a women a mode
of transport and a gun, they are  equally as efficient as a man. In terms
of flying women have faster reactions than men and some argue make better
pilots..smile. Much of our perceived difference are just down to social
conditioning and learned behavior. Smile , big hugs..

AS for survival, we are not doing such a good job of it because our
present way of living is unsustainable to the environment.





Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins Ph.D MA  PGCE REMT RN

Associate Professor of Nursing

Health Promotion Centre

Fukuoka Prefectural University

Ita 4395

Tagawa City

Fukuoka prefecture

Japan

8258585





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In the pursuit of learning every day some thing is accuired.

In the pursuit of the Tao, every day some thing is dropped.

Lao Tsu.Tao Te Ching: 48

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From: Practitioner-Researcher
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen
Alexandra Mary Thompson Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The left right brain debate.



Dear Je Kan

I understand that the left /right brain debate, when one applies science
and neuro investigations to it, loses its thread really. Its much more
spiritual than that and you are right about the Buddhist theory of
mindfulness. Perhaps there are other phrases we could use -
masculine/feminine ; inner/outer ; inclusional/occlusional?



But then why are men more spatially aware than women, in general, and
better at certain tasks which involve detail and dexterity  ...,as ever
we raise more questions than answers. Perhaps education didnt 'borrow' it
from science but the reverse is true - think of European medieval
education in philosophy , maths, geometry, poetry...dare I say it -
alchemy!!



I have often imagined what it would be like to for one person to be bale
to speak every language, play every musical instrument known to man, be
able to do gymnastics, climb mountains, sail oceans and be very fit, and
also be capable of reading very fast, being able to perform highly
skilled surgical procedures, recite everything they had ever read. But
then would love compassion, empathy sympathy and so on also be in that
equation?



In terms of sacred geometry, I can reduce it down to one simple thing -
survival!!



Love Karen


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 4:43
Subject: The left right brain debate.



Dear Geisha,



I am somewhat  of a lurker on this list and only post when inspired to do
so. I have listened with  great interest to the debates. Alan?s last
posting is perhaps on the same wavelength as mine. The left and right
brain debate is very dated and  yet another form of separation.
Educational theory is often behind medical research and in the case of
left or right Brain theory they are light years behind. Talbot's
holographic universe is a good book to read and is in keeping with the
new FMRI research which indicates the brain is an object of wholeness
located in the local and non-local . Local as in the whole brain fires up
electrically in patterns of light, some parts of the brain do have higher
readings that others depending of their function but this is not an
indication of left or right brain logic being applied to that of the
control of the body eg, right hemisphere controls the left  side of the
body. Non local in that the brains electrical activity is not separate to
or from its environment. Local wave patterns such as thinking seem to be
placed within the  domain of the mind for want of a better word..smile.
However, your thoughts, love and compassion can start a ripple through
time and space as it moves with all the energy of the originator. So I
guess that Buddhist theory of mindfulness suggests that all our thoughts
have energy and power beyond the local which is one of the concepts of
energy medicine, healing and prayer. I do dislike entering debates on
western and non western thinking but respectfully suggest that right
brain and left brain thinking is a medical  model for science borrowed by
education. The beauty of our mind and brain in an energy sense is that it
has no limitations other than those we place on it. Anyway , I off back
to sleep now.. Hugs from Japan. Je Kan





Dr Je Kan Adler-Collins Ph.D MA  PGCE REMT RN

Associate Professor of Nursing

Health Promotion Centre

Fukuoka Prefectural University

Ita 4395

Tagawa City

Fukuoka prefecture

Japan

8258585





tel:(Direct)  +81 947 42 1367

fax: +81 947 42 6171

http: www.living-action-research.org

msn: [log in to unmask]



In the pursuit of learning every day some thing is accuired.

In the pursuit of the Tao, every day some thing is dropped.

Lao Tsu.Tao Te Ching: 48

.