Queen Victoria Building

Lauren blowing the pipes on Anzac Day

She plays beautifully. Often practices at Brennan Park where I live.

Milson's Park with Xenia

Botany Bay with Gavin and Srini

It was good to get out for a walk in the midst of Covid.  Swimming was officially forbidden but we had a sneaky swim anyway.

Stroll with Gavin and Srini

Bernardo Kastrup

I learned of Bernardo through Rupert Spira. He is a wonderful philosopher who makes a very convincing argument for  idealism, the theory that reality is mental rather than physical. I read most of his books and listened to many hours of him very eloquently discussing this theories on Youtube.

Books that inspired me

Quotes

• Physics is a science of perception. We start with perception and then start to model the behavior of those perceptions. Bernardo Kastrup
• Science does not say what things are. It only says how they behave. Bernardo Kastrup
• Experience is already mind in motion. Bernardo Kastrup
• All of reality is a phenomenon of, and in, mind. Bernardo Kastrup
• The brain is like a whirlpool in the stream of mind. Bernardo Kastrup
• All reality is in mind, including your body and brain. Bernardo Kastrup
• We are all multiple personalities of a cosmic consciousness.  Bernardo Kastrup
• How can consciousness arise from something truly unconscious. Bernardo Kastrup
• Death causes us to remember all that we already know but cannot recall. Bernardo Kastrup
• Every whirlpool represents the subjective world of its respective human being. Bernardo Kastrup
• If you can be sure of anything at all, it is that your conscious perceptions exist. Bernardo Kastrup
• The whirlpool represents a partial localization of the flow of experiences in the stream. Bernardo Kastrup
• The whirlpool of mind ‘filters out’ of itself most subjective experiences unfolding in nature. Bernardo Kastrup
• The brain is like a whirlpool in the stream of mind that filters in our experience and filters out all else. Bernardo Kastrup
• Localized points-of-view become seemingly amnesic of everything that doesn’t fall within their respective vortices. Bernardo Kastrup
• According to idealism, all of reality – the entire universe – exists in mind, although not all in your egoic mind alone. Bernardo Kastrup
• In a sense, we have been deputized by mind at large to look back at itself and try to make something out of what we see. Bernardo Kastrup

Manly Dam revisit with Sushann

Another nourishing walk enjoying nature's soothing balm.

Event highlights (2020)

Challenges

• Sydney bushfires 
• Living in a time of COVID (lock-downs)

South Africa

• My time in Plett with the Boting family (including the Robberg hike and boating.)
• The Silo for high tea

Going away

• Deva Premal with Shushann, Aimee, Sharon and Lilo.
• Two visits to Carcoar to be with Tina (Settle in, then with Shushann)
• Blue Mountains weekend with Shushann and Lydia

Hikes

• Centennial Glen with Gavin and Srini
• Hike down to river
• Two canyoning trips, the second with snakes!
• Walks with Lydia and Shushann especially Le Perouse. and Manly Dam.

Outings

• The Van Gogh digital exhibition.

• Two photo meet ups: Manly and Newtown Photo Meet Up.

House

• Creating a cover for my air conditioning unit.

Connect

• Supporting Gavin with his Ted Talk.

Wisdom Trove

• Metaphors for God

Gratitude (2020)

Computer and software

• Evernote redesign with great search
• Did not have Google accounts suspended and Google slides deleted
• Found Jilly great computer. Office Work had.
• External hard drive ok (thanks Martin)
• My beautiful new M1 Macbook Pro. So powerful!
• Bought 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, not 2019 intel one.

Finances

• $20000 super payout

Lost and found

• Lost phone on Manly Scenic Walk, got back
• Left phone in cinema. "Find my phone" gave me peace. Got it back.
• Thought I’d lost keys, gave to Lydia

More

• Reissued ticket for plane flight, booked in ahead of airport
• Flu vaccine at Jilly - able to get certificate
• Stove working (tripped)
• Car battery: got started at RNP
• Double booked Marion and Liza: solutions
• Mack glucose ok
• Car crash avoided - such luck
• Airpods Gavin

Progress (2020)

 

General

• Smoothies
• Bathroom ceiling
• My room cabinet, and Heather too
• Airconditioning cabinet
• Lydia and Shushann hiking, The Boys hiking

Spiritual

• Gratitude every morning
• Blessings

Blog

• Random link
• Screensaver shows my photos

Wisdom Trove

General

• Sub menu implemented
• Destination realisation
• Contemporary author connect: (see Deepak)
• Custom title: Deepak Chopra (quotes), Deepak Chopra
• Recent topics list: show curator and time since, right aligned
• Related links like tags
• Delete revisions from database. Search replace super fast.

Curator content management

• Implement Buddyforms and learn
• Choose Formiddable Forms and implement
• Forms, Views
• Publish from Admin to Form
• All updaters set to pending approval
• Not curated gets “Curate this author” promo box with link to form
• Curator admin area. Curate. Edit and Update. Guidelines.
• Curator photos in curation list and filter by curator
• Curator Resource Centre
• Login and registration forms
• Different content viewed by logged in users and not logged in

Templates

• Post types and taxonomies
• Author & Book templates with ACF
• Authors & Books migrated
• Essays migrated

Page reviews

• Topic tags with related books
• Widget links, add (quotes) to title
• Search thesaurus
• Spacing of related

Design

• Topic lists, Types of wisdom, Paths to All with navigation item
• Droid Sans Font
• Underline for authors further down
• Take away link underline

New content

• Tanya books
• Authors Me: Benjamin Franklin, Susan Montag, Ambrose Bierce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anthony de Mello, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David Allen, Napoleon Hill, Samuel Johnson, Aldous Huxley
• Uncurated authors (many)
• Books: Awake, Who is in Charge?, Free will, Awake, No more Mr Nice Guy, Not Nice, Approval Addiction, The Disease to Please
• Aimee: Imperfect, Anne Lammot, Anne Lamott, Shakti Gawain, M. Scott Peck, Anaïs Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many more
• Topics: Journaling, Skepticism, Finetuning, God is everywhere (WIP), God within all (WIP), Great things take time
• Poems: Mindfulness, Free Will, Friendship, Aimee poems
• Life lessons: Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Elon Musk (WIP: Shakespeare)
• Summaries: Values, Purpose
• Questions: Decision making, Free Will
• Humerous topics:  11 topics
• Visuals: Approval seeking, Values, Mindfulness, Free Will, Consciousness, Friendship
• Enhanced quotes:  Approval seeking
• Profound truths (50+)
• Non curated authors: 250

Life is a Movie

• Power of myths
• Life is God’s movie, movie of multiple genres, life is God’s work of art etc.

Metaphors for God

• Metaphors for God (quotes)
• Books read: God Reflected, Wearing God, God the What. Google research.

Quote database

• Export all topic quotes