There are many different types of back ache. Yesterday evening I had a deep ache across the top of my back, just below the lower part of the shoulder blades. Because of the nature of the pain and its location, it was clear to me that it was due to blocked Liver energy (Liver Qi Stagnation), rather than being a muscular problem or due to a chill. Read the rest of this entry »
Last Friday, I did my first two sampler Reiki sessions on friends. With the first person, I began by placing my hands over her eyes, and I again felt a similar sensation to the ‘cold column of wind’ that I felt at the end of the training weekend. This time, I felt a cold draft blowing out of this person’s eyes. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night I slept soundly. I don’t think I’ve slept so well for a few months. I used to think that this was because I was not involved in a heavily creative project at the moment, such as writing a book. That had seemed to be the pattern in the past; when I spent my creative energy during the day on such a project and felt fulfilled, I would always sleep deeply right through the night. Read the rest of this entry »
Last weekend I learnt Reiki, on a two day course. Apart from one dramatic experience at the end, there was nothing about the weekend that was particularly new to me, though I had never officially performed Reiki before. Read the rest of this entry »
With this story, I set out to express a particular idea. Initially I started to write it as a poem, but them, after a few lines, I felt that I needed to write it as a short story, or fragment of a story, so I abandoned the poem and began the story. Read the rest of this entry »
My comments on the story Prize Money, by WW Jacobs.
I like the uncertainty. Did he make up the story about the money, just to get them back and make them pay for the hamper twice, or did he not make it up? Read the rest of this entry »
During a recent treatment, I noticed that the patient had an unusual Kid Yin pulse, which I had not noticed in her before (I had been treating her for four months). It was quite changeable, changing quality by the second. My overall impression of it was that it was certainly not a ‘normal’ pulse, but was one that I often notice in patients who are on strong chemical remedies (which is what I prefer to call biomedicine drug ‘treatments’, so as to attempt to avoid any wrong notions that these remedies are in any way healing or curative). Read the rest of this entry »
My comments on: Matrimonial Openings.
At the end, the only question in my mind way: did someone (perhaps Mr Foss) put the fortune teller up to the last reading? No, I don’t think they could have. No-one knew the husband was going to the fortune teller, unless his winnings were also ‘arranged’ so as to orchestrate his visit there. This is possible, but would have needed to have been hinted at in the prose, which it wasn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
My comments on Homeward Bound.
I thought this was brilliant up until near the end. Jacob seems to use this device a lot in his plots: a friend acting a part to trick another friend or relative into doing something. I think the reason I find this disappointing is because it doesn’t seem believable, since this sort of thing doesn’t happen in real life; it is an invention of fiction writers in order to achieve a twist in the plot. Read the rest of this entry »
My comments after reading this story. I can’t decide if it’s good or bad to leave this many questions unanswered.
When I first finished reading this story, I was left with the impression that the captain had planned the whole thing from the start and set up the narrator, just to remove this second woman from his life. Which was a perfectly acceptable end. Then I wondered who locked them in; first I thought that the captain must have done that and then sent the note to the narrator’s wife. Read the rest of this entry »