Gaia: Connect. Grow. Inspire. Empower.
When was the last time you really listened to someone?
Jon
I have my ear pressed to a metaphorical glass tumbler pressed in turn against the Kosmic wall and I try oh so hard to hear what is going on on the other side of it.... More »
What's on your mind?
Jon
Nothing's on it...there's a lot in it.... Holidays!!!.....after all those exams and work and stuff I really need a break and have not had a week off since xmas.....Tam and Lewis and I are doing... More »
When were you last suprised by joy?
Jon
Well Joy Billingsgate who lives down our street actually got herself a job...and, I'll tell ya, I had to take a magnet to me pacemaker I wuz so shocked. There's a poem by, I think,... More »
What have you learned from other animals?
Jon
They inform me with the utmost sincerity that Dr Doolittle is having you all on...the guy doesn't even know any of the gorilla swear words. I used to dislike Tam's first dog Rosie...she was just... More »
What constitutes true communication?
Jon
To my mind, true communication occurs when the commnicator thinks s/he said what the recipient thought s/he heard. Facilitated with clarity, directness, honesty, respect and compatible worldviews. Jon x
What has your experience been of loss or grief?
Jon
The deepest losses suck the energy out of me like reverse footage of a car exhaust....the ache in the sad, heavy occlusion of mental clarity monsoons into a primal gash of a wail and few... More »
Do you believe in the evolution of human consciousness?
Jon
Well I understand that we only use a third of our brains. I wonder what we do with the other third.
What gets in the way of being fully present?
Jon
There's only one moment, one breath and it is Now.....this is the only breath you will ever take. The ones which apparently came before it are memories in the Now and the ones you anticipate... More »
What would engage more people in creating a positive future?
Jon
You take one planetary ecosystem in all of its intricate dynamically homeostatic blueskyed splendour...you evolve a neocortex in a simian enabling it to gradually achieve dominion over that system.... and then you don't bother endowing... More »
How can we stay connected?
Jon
Try this experiment....starting right now. ....every time you encounter another human being, however familiar they are to you, register whether your knee-jerk response is predicated from experiencing how different you are from that other or... More »
QaR
July 2008