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Achieving success as a writer, and how to avoid false hope

I am writing in preparation for the writers and diarists group that I intend to form on the 22nd of January. We have a handful of people so far but I imagine we will probably get about a dozen or so which is great for a launch. About launches, if we want to be really successful we should follow nature. In nature everything starts small and having a big PR bash with people drinking champagne and...

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Giving effective requested advice 

I have just done a psychic reading this morning which I combine with pendulum dowsing or divining. I very much rely on ideas that pop into my head from nowhere when listening to someone given account of their life and for the most part it seems to work. Sometimes what I say doesn't seem to make any sense at all but it seems to make sense to my client. It is important to keep the subjective side...

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Just plain sadness

GOOD CHRISTIAN VIBES FIRST THING IN THE MORNING A contact of mine, Matt, is making an attempt to revive the Men's Christian group here in Midsomer Norton and suggested that we meet this morning Saturday the 11th of January in our local Wetherspoons. It was a breakfast meeting so started at 8 a.m thus necessitating setting my alarm and rising in the dark I decided to walk instead of taking the...

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What is thought and consciousness and why study it?

WHAT IS A THOUGHT? My take: a thought is a decision to change the vectors of our activity, to perform an action, to change a state of mind? If we completely identified ourselves within our human body, thought would be impossible because it implies there is something apart from pure biology that is causing us to take action. We may be alerted via our body 5 senses  but what is it that causes us...

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A return to The Bath Society of Artists Exhibition

Before this wonderful exhibition closes this Saturday we had to go alone take another look and this time there was another explainer (see my previous entry)  by the name of  Dessanka who started her talk by welcoming us and warning us that we may run over the allotted half hour slot. We did in fact in slightly over the hour and that was because she knew an awful lot about painting and artists. I...

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Guidelines – launching a new cultural venture

I honestly believe that starting socially or culturally-based organisations is a lost art. We have too many institutions, bureaucracies, political parties, groups whose aim is to make money for the participants or advancing your career but what about cultural groups? They seem quite low down on the scale of priorities. Where I live in Somerset, I can only recall one group that was started and...

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