I have occasional chats with my friend who’s busy writing a book on the effect of the soul on the body from the analytical and scientific viewpoint but of course the cell cannot be adequately contained under the remit of science and the way the word is used.

Friend : Many people present themselves to us during the course of a day. The problem is we don’t have the entire background story of the people we meet. Trying to figure people out is a bit like watching a pantomime.  I’m trying to figure out what people’s lives really are.

Such activity is a waste of time if you’ve got something that you really have to concentrate on such as writing a book.  If we study technical things such as ‘how can the soul influence the body’ it needs our 100% focus as we have a dozen references which we need to incorporate into a stanza..

Everything such as humans, animals, plants, rocks is giving off vibes and they all form interference patterns which follow conduits or paths for thoughts to be carried from one person to another or indeed to nature itself.

Launch of a new writing venture in Midsomer

Brian: I recently invited a group of people to discuss how they could become more effective writers and diarists and in a group of eight people three withdrew after the first meeting. I could not find anything wrong with the meeting which was full of facts and information and encouragement,

To give due credit to them they may have been misinformed or got the wrong idea about the nature of the meeting in spite of a page of careful writing on the website but I have to remember that not everyone reads a website.

I tried to emphasize to them that it was a new organisation and they through their input would steer the course of it and it would be built around their needs. They would also have the support and company of other writers.

I do not know whether they heard this. Sometimes you can say something and you think it’s understood because people are looking in your direction but I’m afraid if the mind is full of distractions and noise that counts for nothing.

My theory is unfortunately that people have become reprogrammed away from the community and have been influenced by the cumulative effect of expecting only a little bit of nutrition because no one is prepared to invest in the community anymore.
Friend : It is less likely that people know who they are and what their purpose is these days.

Have the population been reprogrammed?

I think that people were programmed during the covid era by such things as the six foot distancing and the idea of killing your grandmother. These memes have gotten into the subconscious and convince people that community meetings are actually dangerous.

We gave them at the first meeting exactly what they wanted.  it was a very pleasant front room and yet there was this change of mind when people stepped out of the door. Maybe I’m too optimistic or realisticly under optimistic.

Friend:  We can try and accommodate ourselves to everyone and everything but we’re getting to so much trouble not being able to do everything that I have to whittle it down to make myself happy enough to do it least one thing correctly.

Brian: I love time for creativity on my own there’s nothing I love more than an empty diary which may be an age thing I don’t know. Brian: speaking generally, I’ve got myself into a position when I cannot not write. Come to think about it, that’s a double negative so ….. try again ….I’ve got myself into a position when I cannot help myself to write.

It took me a long time to get to that position and I think it was the realization that I am a unique being, I got it just by training the mind really, and I wouldn’t be the same without it.

Socially if I could be understood once a month by one person that would be brilliant.

I now in this post community age have low expectations of humanity. They are ‘busy’, what are they doing? What we both have is our provenance of our 40 years experience growing together so most of the time we might as well be on a desert island. At least it would be hot.

What is the point in engaging with people?

Brian: Every time I expose myself to this type of new idea I learn and I get stronger. OK occasionally my pride is hurt but I can live with that.  My remit is different to yours.. I understand it but for me, networking and community building is what I love doing.
I can tell if I’m doing the right thing because my body doesn’t weigh anything anymore. The alternative is also true. If I’ve done something dishonorable but body weighs a ton and it’s not a nice feeling.

A lovely surprise