My Metaphysics

I wrote this in a break during a recent zen retreat: All is one. This lies at the root of spiritual metaphysics – of the kind i know – and in a sense the story ends there. But let’s unpack it a little. What is the nature of “One” ? Well, One is God, but … Read more

Circumambulating the stupa

me playing guitar in a C-47

Hello friends. Have been through what feels like another round of frying-pan-fire, with cars breaking unexpectedly (quick pushing onto median strips at lights with other cars waiting), songs going out into the world without much fanfare, money on the mind, and as usual the riot menagerie of dogs, kids, and chickens, with 17 new babies … Read more

Two new releases and life stuff

a black and white or greyscale scene of tall dying pines (actually around the back of my place) with the title Capital Crime Filew Podcast - Original Sounds by MULETONIC

I just put out some more music – the first EP “To Eternity” is left overs from my recent release “The Present Race” , demo quality material really, but i like it. The last two songs came about after my 2022 India trip, the first two are from earlier on when i was still going … Read more

Son of Sam

There’s an Elliott Smith song I’ve been trying to learn for a while now, called Son of Sam. The studio version which opens Elliott’s figure 8 album has a nice video directed by Autumn de Wilde (there is a funny story somewhere about how hard it was to control the red balloon) and it captures … Read more

elementary particles love nagarjuna

I have so many disconnected thoughts right now. One is that our path through life is just like that of a quantum particle – we subtly interact with the other versions of our self that ‘might have been’. Reading Nagarjuna i suddenly get an insight into emptiness as the space between things. but we are … Read more

Music updates

I am sitting at home, Rose on the bed beside me, listening to covers of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Avalanche’ on soundcloud. I think the best one i like is by someone called Dalanie Taylor who seems to be from Arkansas – she is playing in a different key to the original, which makes the chords a … Read more

bitterness

Looking back at some of my writing this website, I am coming to realise how naive I have been about human nature.  They might sound outlandish, but I really was genuinely imagining future societies with interconnected internet democracy, a secular yet spiritual foundation, and living the fusion of science and art as ‘Plosm’, as ideas … Read more

Imperfect bee

Over the Christmas break i spent time with my bees. Here are some of my hives, my 4yo daughter helped paint one of them (we did it before the bees were in it).  I have had bees for nearly 9 years but i only feel like i am beginning to get the hang of it … Read more

the fire has escaped

The sound track to this post is Anton’s new track “not blowing smoke up your ass” .. you should let it play in the background. Modern society is like a carefully calibrated engine.  After centuries of experimentation, by the mid 20th Century most the raw forces of humanity were brought into a balance, to drive … Read more

When we discover aliens, they will have teapots

When we (inevitably) discover intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, I predict that they will have teapots. My line of reasoning is that just as the evolution of body plans inevitably stumbles across useful things like mouths and body armour, so too the evolution of tools will inevitably stumble across useful forms like teapots. This … Read more

Holy Cow

I’ve just agreed to milk one of the neighbour’s cows. Haven’t milked a cow since I was about 6, when I used to hang around with dad when he was on milking duty. Our lovely jersey cow Heidi was a good friend for me in those days, she was so gentle and her side was … Read more