The Mental House

2011-03-01T21:58:00.000-08:00

What can make sense of this pointless existence? The transience of pleasure and pain. The fickleness of love. The biological prerequisite of sexual reproduction and nurture of the young...

2011-03-01T03:33:00.001-08:00

It's amazing what freedom can produce, is the heart free? No it has to feel what it is programmed to feel. Where is respect for the sensivitity of young plants. Auzu billahi

2011-02-28T04:21:00.000-08:00

True Sufism should not allow of misogyny or patriarchy. In this world we are born equally human though in different bodies and circumstances and now in the 21st Century we must strive to become equal again. This means shedding a lot of cultural and familial and social muck that we and sufism have acquired. Freedom is too great a word for nothing left to lose! We must have something to aspire towards with our new found freedom. Wildness is at the root of our sexuality and civilisation at the head of our social manners but our hearts are tender and need warming in the hearth of our collabarative efforts. How can love survive this winter of our discontent?

2011-02-26T03:11:00.000-08:00

We are all either on the inside or the outside of life it seems. But people are looking more and more inwards as there is no contact to be made on the out only food to be bought and friends to be made and work to be done and families to be raised, people waituing to die apart from that we are all strangers living in a strange world

2011-02-26T00:59:00.000-08:00

If women continue to treat men as disposible articles like some of the most significant women in my life then there is little hope for the survival of anything worthwhile that one might call humanity x

2011-02-25T02:10:00.000-08:00

2011-02-25T01:32:00.000-08:00

I remember coming back from milan where we stayed at the hotel Manian. We nearly crashed as we neared Simplon tunnel

The Mental House

2011-02-24T21:59:00.000-08:00

The Mental House

2011-02-24T21:48:00.000-08:00

All I can say is that the pain which I a going thru must be part of some cleansing process! Allah uses those around us to clean us up. Like as he said a bowl of dirty potatoes being swirled around to knock the dirt of each other. In this case Bilquis is frocing me back to Allah like Sulaiman to prove that His God is One God. Surah 27 'The Ant' Verse 41: He said: Disguise her throne for her that we may see whether she will go aright or be of those not rightly guided... I was brought up in ahouse dominated by women in particular the moods andvagaries of my batty mother so this gives me a chance to break free quit moaning and join the world of men if there are still any out there. The women on Zoosk might leave me wondering why they cannit find any?

2011-02-24T05:54:00.000-08:00

To be independent of one's parenting, standing alone amongst the floods of humanity. Such were my thoughts as I rounded the bend in full view of KY House and came upon a cup o tea at the Old Folk Museum. Jolted back into mundane reality from the transcendental transpersonal world i had inhabited on my way from not seeing my old fried the psychotherapist. Saw a couple of women who caught my fancy as I squaffed a bowl of soup and baguette by Magdelene Bridge, wearing the more hippy oriental outlook. Will have to change my dating site to explain about islam and my connection with it and how i need a woman in my life to be abler to apply its principles for cannot go giving my heart again for it to go astray. Spotted the raw types of masculinity and femininity. The young and the old. The professional and the workman and the student. Rich and varied on the quayside the different types of humanity and probabaly so for thousands of years at Cambridge's oldest crossing point. But the point is not what is everyone else but what can I become. Certainly a grounding in the competencies of everyday life is essential to navigate this workd but beyond that a certain transcendence seems to be called forthwide.

Denial

2010-06-21T20:27:00.001-07:00

How to be a denialist

Martin McKee, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who also studies denial, has identified six tactics that all denialist movements use. "I'm not suggesting there is a manual somewhere, but one can see these elements, to varying degrees, in many settings," he says (The European Journal of Public Health, vol 19, p 2).

1. Allege that there's a conspiracy. Claim that scientific consensus has arisen through collusion rather than the accumulation of evidence.
2. Use fake experts to support your story. "Denial always starts with a cadre of pseudo-experts with some credentials that create a facade of credibility," says Seth Kalichman of the University of Connecticut.
3. Cherry-pick the evidence: trumpet whatever appears to support your case and ignore or rubbish the rest. Carry on trotting out supportive evidence even after it has been discredited.
4. Create impossible standards for your opponents. Claim that the existing evidence is not good enough and demand more. If your opponent comes up with evidence you have demanded, move the goalposts.
5. Use logical fallacies. Hitler opposed smoking, so anti-smoking measures are Nazi. Deliberately misrepresent the scientific consensus and then knock down your straw man.
6. Manufacture doubt. Falsely portray scientists as so divided that basing policy on their advice would be premature. Insist "both sides" must be heard and cry censorship when "dissenting" arguments or experts are rejected.

Debora MacKenzie is New Scientist's correspondent in Brussels, Belgium

2010-06-21T20:24:00.000-07:00

A consciousness of a vast impassivity in all which lay around him took possession even of Yeobright in his wild walk towards Alderworth. Return of the Native. Thomas Hardy

2010-06-14T17:00:00.000-07:00

the beautiful body of a woman, the feminine capacity for love these are what i worship as a man

2010-06-10T01:39:00.000-07:00

Two thin people walk past below my window. Thinned by the ravages of crack cocaine. No vein. The sycamores spell sickness as the weather hovers around a depression,

The Verve and Morning Pryers seems a good mix for my womanless Thursday. In Itikhal, no sense, nonsense, but allah, the pale blue dot of planet earth as seen from ms.

Yesterday and Bedford reeks of the spirituality of John Bunyan, but the old men in the mosque don't seem to mind...

2010-06-05T07:14:00.000-07:00

Going thru storms of eschatological periods it is important to know where one’s destination harbour is and how best to get there with prevailing weather conditions. Constant position reckoning. Triangulation.

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The Ship of Fools sets sail to Armaggedon...

Harry Potter's strengths are called upon again

West meets East, the old conundrum for us ex hippy types in doldrums...

The Mental House

2008-05-17T23:46:00.000-07:00

The Mental House

2008-05-17T23:42:00.000-07:00

Have I met him now, the one I have been preparing for all my life and does this life find me wanting? I can't imagine anyone not finding me wanting, wretched and despised: a bruised reed he will not break, Isaiah 42:3.

Chinese Muslim

2008-05-11T17:41:00.001-07:00

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Campbell

2008-05-10T01:31:00.001-07:00

Hello mate

2007-06-13T20:11:00.000-07:00

Muhammad Guides My Jihad. I take it to be the Call to Spread The Message of The Second Coming of Jesus Christ as a Muslim. Nature helps Me Realise that The After Armaggeddon Phase of Human Life Must be About Preservation of the Planet as a Habitable Place for Mankind. Now I want to Focus on Eternity Both Materially and Spiritually. I Thank God For My Creation and Ask for Guidance Both Now And in The Hereafter. The Mark

2007-06-13T17:52:00.000-07:00

Life is not Literal. It is mostly Metaphorical. 19.07.07

2007-06-13T12:04:00.000-07:00

Recently returned from N. Cyprus May 07 where Maulana Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani is still preparing to be succeeded by al Mahdi who will prepare for the Descent of Jesus Christ on the Western Minaret at the Ummayyad Mosque at Damascus. Sheikh Nazim is now 85 years old so one feels these events could be with us soon and as I have said a Second Coming would be opportune just as Muhammad's was and Christ's and Moses, Joseph etc. There appears to be required a particular concatenation of circumstances for the miraculous to occur and with the rampant materialism of the West and the problems that Muslims and Christians face in understanding eachother maybe the time is nearly right, maybe.

The Mental House

2007-06-13T12:02:00.000-07:00

The Mental House

2007-06-13T11:54:00.000-07:00

2006-03-31T13:30:00.000-08:00

Sheikh Nazim al-Qubbrusi used to call His Mosque: The Mental House. On The Island of Aphrodite i.e. Cyprus, he titled me the sheikh of the mental house, as I had then started to suffer from paranoid schizophrenia and was on my way back from the hajj al-akbar 1991. Much of his teaching concerned The Second Coming. He reckoned that in the spiritual realm Jesus would speak to him and say He was ready to return to earth. What does this mean. I reckon that Christ could make a return as a muslim as well as being recognisable to christians and that this could, at least in theory be a format for a recognisable and useful 2nd coming, bearing in mind the trauma existing between the muslim psyche and the christian. Have just written an essay for The Open University dealing with why Islam has prospered in the muslim world whereas Christianity appears to have faltered in western europe. I am interested in bloggers thoughts on these issues and whether eschatology has any relevance to the modern world.