Why blog it?

The first reason for blogging is that just by prompting me to keep a record of what I am doing, the plan and the progress, the discoveries, setbacks, etc, it will all be brought to a firmer level of consciousness. Just doing it (the otherwise admirable counsel of Nike) is lacking in that one risks floating through different states, perhaps even wonderful states, and then landing back where one started without being able to say with any confidence if one has actually been anywhere, if one imagined it all, if anything has changed, or if one has just had a pleasant dream of which one can't remember much.

This is one of the issues that undertaking a course of Practice aims to deal with. It's quite possible to have peak experiences that arise from any or all of: a stimulating discussion, a workshop led by a charismatic trainer, a beautiful experience in nature, a wonderful love-making session, even a really good book, a good joint with some transcendent music. These peak experiences always seem to evaporate when one comes back to normal life, and habitual reality takes over again. The problem, as explained by Ken Wilber and cohorts, is that we live at the level of personal evolution we've reached, and while in certain circumstances we might access states associated with a higher level of evolution, our normal level of existence is the level we will automatically slip back to when the circumstances revert to normal.

So blogging is a way of firming all that up, and a tool which will remind us, and convince us, of our potential to live at a higher level of consciousness – whatever that may mean – and believing it is, speculatively, one small step closer to making it a reality.

Another reason for blogging, is that it connects our psychospiritual program and pathway, if any, into our social context. This again reinforces the whole program, but it also opens up the possibility of exchange, of getting and responding to feedback, and thus it has the potential of enriching and broadening the whole process.

Result hoped for

I would like to interest people enough to start some sort of informal network where people share ideas, discoveries, good books, as well as personal comment and feedback. After all, and I would propose this as a general starting point, we are all subject to the same frustrating feeling of impotence when we bump up against our own personal limitations. I would even advance that the person who does NOT experience this frustration is the person who is so taken with his or her gratifications and compensations that they don't even notice where their epistemology is contradictory, where it is failing them and offering a poor substitute for a sense of inner richness and peace. There, there's my assertion for the day – all brickbats and rotten eggs accepted (just don't flatter me).

Dangers of blogging

A thunderous step to expose ones most secret fears and concealments in public.

Risk of just not being interesting enough to engage anybody's readership – my tendency to over-elaborate and get long-winded.

My own interest may wane, leaving it in the abandoned projects category (a graveyard of wild ideas which I prefer to forget altogether).