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Updated on the blog now - major Landcraft correspondences for the landscapes and the weather

• Landscapes
  • Dual Landscapes
  • Weather

I may take some time later on to write a meditation specifically for each of them, but you can easily devise your own by reading through these pages, taking notes of the sorts of emotions, weathers and places you might experience, and writing a visualisation to practice embedding them in mind.

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The other problem with Learn To Woodwork books is they all assume you have a billion pounds to spend on machines for your woodwork which you keep in your American-dad scale woodworking garage.

What's really needed is a book where every project is small, and you only need to buy four tools for the first project, and then maybe every few chapters you add a new tool...

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Novice: Reads What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains as a meditation on the sacred necessity of Disconnecting from the internet and getting back to a more ancient mode of thinking and behaving

Book: "The oral world of our distant ancestors may well have had emotional and intuitive depths that we can no longer appreciate. McLuhan believed that preliterate peoples must have enjoyed a particularly intense “sensuous involvement” with the world. When we learned to read, he argued, we suffered a “considerable detachment from the feelings or emotional involvement that a nonliterate man or society would experience...Ong, in his influential 1982 study Orality and Literacy, took a similar view. “Oral cultures,” he observed, could “produce powerful and beautiful verbal performances of high artistic and human worth, which are no longer even possible once writing has taken possession of the psyche.”

Master: Reads What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains as a meditation on the sacred necessity of Disconnecting, and concludes the only way back is to forget how to read.