A few audio snippets from Akira Ikemi prior to his upcoming Australian workshops from April 30 to 4 May. Just click on the play arrow on each file in this post to listen. The 5 snippets are: 1. On Meeting Gene Gendlin: 2. The Felt Sense - Experience Beyond Words: 3. The Six Steps - Focusing Short Form: 4. Mindfulness and Focusing - A Good Blend: 5. My Australian Workshops: …
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Reflections on Loneliness
I had to learn the poem below by rote when I was at school and probably, like many of us, I never really stopped to engage with the whole of what Wordsworth was writing about. Loneliness seems so pervasive and mostly experienced as an undesirable state. Existentialists talk about it as one of our ultimate anxieties as manifest in the experience of isolation and separateness. So many times, I’ve heard people talk about dying alone as their greatest fear. "I wandered lonely as a cloud …