Chapter 26 -"The Way to Nowhere" - preceding chapters may be accessed by clicking in "2015" in the Archives on the right, scrolling down to "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page that opens, then scrolling down every page to click on "Older Posts".

Chapter 26

If you can`t explain it simply, you don`t understand it well enough

                                                                                       Albert Einstein

Civilisation in Decline

We stayed in the Philippines for three years and then moved to the UK in 2006 but it was not the same country as I had left twenty years before. It was not that the country itself had changed but the society within it. It suffered from often ludicrous health and safety regulations, the scourge of political correctness and increased scrutiny and surveillance. It had changed out of all recognition and my Filipina wife was not allowed to stay there for more than six months. We rented an apartment in Exmouth and I joined the staff of the Exmouth Language Academy, where parties of Spanish children came over to England on summer courses..........................................

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                                                    Chapter 25 

Any problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
                                                                           

                                                                                            Albert Einstein

A Change of Direction

In 1995 I decided to resign from Saudia, partly because of the uncompromising attitude of my Saudi supervisor and partly because the time had come to leave, and bought the old presbytery from a French woman, which had a guest cottage and was located 25 kilometres from Paphos in the west of Cyprus, the Island of Love. I did not have any kind of paid employment but worked on restoring the house and garden and lived an idyllic life with my young family for four years. We bought a Mitsubishi 4X4 and I travelled around the countryside picking up building stone with which to build an extension to the house...............

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Chapter 24 - "The Way to Nowhere". Preceding chapters may be accessed from the Archives on the right of the page. Click on "2015", scroll down to the bottom of every page that opens, clicking on "Older Posts."

Chapter 24

There is no reality except the one contained within

                                                                                         Herman Hesse

The Transformation

Nasruddin was pondering greatly. He had been pondering for days, with no resolution to his ponderings. He was even beginning to lose sleep over them, which was most unusual for him. Day after day the questions which arose in his mind assailed his conscious mind without mercy and without respite.

It came down to this. What is the relationship between form and the void, between substance and emptiness, between everything and no-thing? The great Sufi teachers had left him with this impossible conundrum............................

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Chapter 23 -" The Way to Nowhere" - preceding chapters may be accessed by clicking on "2015" in the Archives on the right of the page, then scrolling down every page that opens after clicking on "Older Posts" at the bottom of every page.

                                                   Chapter 23

             

         The goal to be reached is the mind’s insight into what knowing is
Hegel                                                                

I was to remain in Indonesia for seven years. I learned to speak bahasa Indonesia well enough to communicate with market venders, bus conductors, shop-keepers and passing girlfriends. In 1992 I applied for a job to work for Saudi Arabian Airlines teaching Saudi trainee pilots and mechanics in Jeddah. Before leaving, I had known an Englishman who had become a Moslem and taken the name Suleiman. He was living at the Subud Centre in south Jakarta and had applied to go to Saudi Arabia as an English teacher, working for Saudia. However, he fell on the steps of the mosque in Jeddah and after a spell in hospital decided to give up his position and return to Indonesia. He told me about his experience working for the airlines and I felt that the time had come for me to make a change in my life.............................................

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