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Girl finds precious gem in fishing village

It wasn’t the fish

 

 

So much focus on 

• attaining book knowledge 
  • and being newspaper savvy. 
• Heads full of facts. 
• Attention to the tiny signs and signals, 
  • not so much. 
• Those tiny signals, 
  • detectable only if we prime our 
  • minds, psyches and bodies 
  • to receive them, 
  • drowned out by overdoses of modern tech and education.

 

Wisdom, 

• carried in action 
  • carries a simplicity that speaks volumes. 
• Sometimes 
  • we don’t need so many words. 
• Words can confound what is real,
  •  deep inside.
• We know this, 
  • deep inside.

 

I stepped off the bus 

• at El Palo 
  • wielding a piece of paper. 
  •  
• All I had at my disposal was a basic Nokia 
  • and a meagre handful of Spanish words 
  • to find my potential next home.
•  

 

 

This fishing village 

• east of Malaga 
  • was no-frills kind of place.
• The small handful of people around 
  • were dispersing faster than
  • my ability to weigh up 
    • whether or not I wanted to approach them.

 

Huelva 

• (pronounced Welba), 
  • had been my last home. 
  •  
• One school term has been enough there.
• Here
  • in El Palo 
  • the squares were not so neatly tiled. 
• Red bricked arches did not decorate the patios 
  • but I hoped the welcome would be warmer.
•  

 

Columbus himself 

• had set sail from Huelva. 
  •  
• The word ‘himself’
  • indicating that somewhere we might a expect a statue put up for all to revere. 
• And indeed 
  • there I had found him in black, 
  • in the tiled market square 
  • pointing grandly towards the port. 
• Throughout Spain 
  • schools and workplaces close every 12th October, 
  • a public holiday to honour him.

 

$Sure, 

• Christopher Columbus 
  • had leadership qualities: 
• A strong will, 
  • certainty of direction, 
  • big ambitions, 
  • courage and fortitude. 
• The Church had issued 
  • the Doctrine of Discovery. 
• This justified Christian empires 
  • colonizing non-Christian lands, 
  • displacing Indigenous peoples, and 
  • seizing their territories. 
• He had permission and funding 
  • so off he went.

 

His methods: 

• enslavement, 
• torture, 
  • and brutal mistreatment of indigenous populations 
  • and horrific tyranny over his own European settlers. 
• All of this
  •  overshadowed by the excitement of ship loads of gold and spices 
  • docking in Andalucia, 
  • the promise of new trade routes.

Don’t worry, 

• I’m not going to persuade you to reject money or your religion. 
• Please read on.

 

Incoherence: 

• So much stuff going on in our heads, 
  • sometimes loudly, 
  • sometimes through 
    • very very subtle signals 
  • that live inside of us. 
• All bumping together. 
• How to navigate it all? 
• Where to begin?

 

We remain mostly unaware of 

• how inequalities ripple out through the things 
• that lie quietly at the centre. 

 

The petrodollar 

• is an example of this. 
  •  
• Who 
  • right now 
  • is highlighting the ways in which 
  • it is causing war and global insecurity?

 

Property Law 

• is another example. 
  •  
• The Doctrine of Discovery 
  • arose from papal bulls 
  • issued before it 
  • and it is already embedded in all kinds of ways
  • through US federal law, 
  • the commonwealth and beyond. 
• Who is raising awareness of 
  • how it is working against natural law? 
• Who here even has a concept of natural law?

 

The centre ceases to exist in our education 

• and in our consciousness. 
  •  
• That impacts how we make meaning. 
  •  
• Certainty born of newspapers and education 
  • rarely takes us towards the source of the contamination 
  • or how it could be tackled.

 

There is no formula. 

• Just setting an intention to dial down on certainty 
  • can make for more openness to the different ways 
    • hierarchy is hardwired into 
      • our psyches, 
      • our public services and 
      • our whole lives. 
• We operate around ideologies and legislation 
  • that squeezed the human out long ago 
  • and its grip is getting tighter.

 

Instead of delving into what lies at the centre 

• and what ripples out together, 
• people find themselves divided into 
  • left and right, 
  • refugees and state nationals, 
  • vaccines and no vaccines. 
• What ripples out is an incoherent mess of opinions and ideologies.

 

Opinions  -

• which side you take and why, 
• opinions are your sword.

 

Ideology - 

• your political and religious persuasion 
  • or the latest model of change,
•  ideology is your defence.

 

Our conscious evolution 

• begins with joy 
• not judgment. 
  •  
• The conviction that we are one. 

 

 

A gentleman with a white beard approaches my bus stop 

• carrying a pile of books. 
  •  
• Acting swiftly, 
  • I present him with with my piece of paper and a question. 
• No, he doesn’t speak English. 
• Yes, he understands what I’m asking. 
• He signals to wait, 
  • then disappears inside a nearby corner shop. 
• A two-way dialogue can be heard concerning my piece of paper.

 

He emerges. 

• It’s along this same route he indicates with a sweep of his arm. 
• With the most imperceptible of signals, I am invited to join.

 

His name is Felix. 

• The books are on Philosophy. 
• Now there is a subject that invites you 
  • to get to the centre 
  • of what really matters.

 

Science holds on to the belief 

• that energy and matter 
  • are to be treated as separate entities. 
  •  
• The divinity that is present in the living intelligence of nature 
  • or the universe is rejected as unscientific.

 

Normality: 

The need for certainty is a one way street 

• where the potholes are never filled
  • and property law is a minefield. 
• We yearn for a beautiful hillock 
  • where we can breathe lung fulls of oxygen and see for miles.

 

Normality is the 

• avuncular uncle 
  • who you go to for advice
    • because he is well read and well meaning. 
  • He will give clear answers grounded in his experience. 
  • But what experience does he have of the middle ground? 
  • It may feel relational to him but finding the centre 
    • has never really been ‘a thing’ in his universe.

 

The advice from avuncular uncle 

• is born of 
  • newspapers and 
  • history books, 
  • science journals, 
  • Wikipedia, 
  • possibly AI. 
• These contain information that does not attempt to find the centre, 
  • the starting point, 
  • the pivot. 
• He continues along his well paved street 
  • while others may gravitate towards the hillock.

 

$ There isn’t even a name

• for beginning such an inquiry, 
• one that orientates towards coherence and wholeness.

 

School shrugs its shoulders because it’s not in the curriculum.

 

Science refuses to fund it.

 

$ Our hearts and souls 

• are left to fend for themselves. 
•  
• But when things get really messy, 
  • the heart and soul will cry out. 
• That is when our learning can be transformative 
  • because we are open to what we don’t know yet.

 

$ That is what transitioning is all about.

 

$ Sometimes it is good to keep those little insights 

• that ‘don’t fit’ in a special place protected for a time 
  • from all the ‘expert’ analysis and opinion 
  • swapping around you. 
•  
• Further down the line, 
  • you may realise with surprise 
  • that it is that very place that holds the centre. 
• It is the stuff of life.

 

$ What signals can look and feel like 

• and how to work with them 
  • is a big part of what is surfacing as part of the transition. 
• It is what has been lost 
  • and is part of our relearning to be nature in nature.

 

$ We are orientating to 

• how we are meant to live. 
•  
• Learning to sense into the living world, 
  • refining our natural capacities to heal and expand our consciousness. 
•  
• If this is missed out of what we learn 
  • and how we learn, 
  • our education remains impoverished.

 

$ Surprising and wonderful synergies 

• are made possible 
  • when we tune in to ourselves, 
  • to one another and to the living world around us.

 

$ Wholeness will value the other point of view, 

• the thing that unites the big and the small. 
•  
• The place between now and next 
  • that holds the potential for the evolving that we need to do. 
• The heart, 
  • the compass or 
  • signpost 
    • for the thing that matters.
• Get the starting point right,
  • the rest follows.

 

$ If you ask to put stickers on your window saying 

• which side of the war you back, 
• continue with a vaccine or not, 
  • what appears uppermost in your mind?

 

$ ‘Which side is right?’ 

• or 
  • ‘How I can place myself so that 
    • I feel the beating heart of the person behind this opinion or ideology?’

 

$ One values certainty. 

• The other values 
  • wholeness and 
  • inclusivity.

 

$ Learning about wholeness is to be found 

• in unexpected places, 
• but only if you are searching.

 

Felix was retired now. He used to teach Philosophy in Madrid. He was just walking back from the library. To my surprise, even with my minimal Spanish vocabulary, I could follow along with everything he was saying. Presently I even found myself pitching in, offering up my own views on Philosophy - In Spanish!

 

We turned the corner and arrived at a block of flats, the location encoded on my piece of paper.

 

A dismal tower of concrete and dark windows stood there, shoulders slouched. The sorriest looking facade on the second floor was my potential next home. Rags hung limply across a tiny balcony. Abandoned bits of bicycles and a broken mirror.

 

“Está sucio” he said. I nodded. It was dirty indeed.

 

$ It was time for Felix and I to part ways.

• He extended his hand. 
•  
• Shaking hands is not a traditional Spanish way to say goodbye 
  • but there was a reason. 
• He pointed to a specific part of his hand. 
•  
• The lines there meant the shaking of hands would bring me luck.
• It was clear to both of us that I was in need of some good fortune.

 

I asked if he’d like to be friends on Facebook. He doesn’t do social media.

 

How about texting? He doesn’t believe in that either.

 

He only communicates in the moment with whoever happens to be around, or if they turn up at his door.

 

For Felix Philosophy was not a ‘subject’ studied in books, 

• used to elevate his status as a man of letters. 
•  
• It was not a list of things to remember to pass an exam or prove your point.

 

Coherence: Felix chose to live a life 

• where attention began at a deeper level of tuning in to himself, 
  • to the other and giving the middle ground his full attention. 
•  
• For Felix being present had become a default state.
• A pathway of choice. 
• That is what made him a master of what it means to be alive and to serve life.

 

I bid goodbye to Felix, 

• the rarest gem amongst men in the tiny fishing village of El Palo.

 

I invite you now 

• to take a moment just to register how this article landed with you. 
•  
• Your body is part of the your learning apparatus 
• - all of it, the feelings and emotions that surge up,
  • the somatic signals. 
• Learning is not just knowledge in your head. 
• It is these invisible signals too.

 

Does practising to respond fully in each moment count as a valid learning activity? 

• If we don’t want AI powered technology 
  • powered to take us the way legislation and ideology has, 
  • but on speed, 
  • we had better start right now, practising the new normal, 
  • making the invisible visible.

 

The hand shake of Felix did bring me luck. 

• I secured a beautiful flat in Malaga, 
  • better than I could have dreamed possible with my modest teaching salary. 
•  
• Just a few minutes walk to the beach, 
  • shiny promenades, beach bars, cafes and ice cream parlours.

 

This was to be my next home.

 

 

what landed

Metaphors and Poetry

• I lived by
  • in my youth,
  • seeking pointers flashes of recognition to live by
• There is one that says: A piece of writing that lands deeply makes me sigh
  • with sorrow , why am I not a poet
• Years ago I read a piece by Parmjit that moved me very much
  • so I approached this piece with anticipation, and it has been most reqarding
• Thank You.

 

Took he opportunity of working with a text

• that  is rewarding and deserving of deep attention and revision
  • to practice deep change of text flow to bring out
  • and highlight the rhyme and reason of what lands and worth reflecting on
• Working on the assumption that
  • if there is a good text
  • how it can be imporved just by formatting
  • to be more accessible and comprehendable

As I finished re-formatting the text

• i noticed that after over 50 years of using computers for text processing
  • and over Four decades or more after WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing
  • we are still sharing ideas in the form of texts that is
  • optimized for minimizing the number of pages it would take 
  • when we GET IT Prined
• Since physical paper and printing does have cost that make sense if the
  • primary medium is paper.
• However, the primary medium of not only composing, but cosuming text,
  • had been digital for at leat for the past three decades
• The Web, online sharing of text have been around for over a decade
  • and handheld mobile devices themselves were invented 42 years ago
  • and the term PDA (Personal digital Assistant
•