Personas, rivers, interbeing, ineffability ...

An early message arrives in response to the plea for help with no-self ... proposing the river metaphor, ever changing, yet flowing somewhere ... in its own time ... personas for others to relate with .... this new word standing for role and in contemporary usage a montage for advertisers to address ... the older usage a sign of the correspondent's background in psychology ... and it is comforting to have qualified psychologists casting an eye over the ramblings to check for symptoms of plot loss ... not to say that the profession is immune to losing it, of course! Anyway the river story develops nicely, with the need for a name on the map (Heraclitus notwithstanding) and for some water flowing: "not some dried up river bed" ... and of course, like all metaphors, it ends up in the sea ... or possibly a lake ... maybe another river ... or, to be clear, the words are never the thing described .... which brings us to another correspondent, this time via a Dutch FB friend, found via Noomap, posting about an interview with a local philosophy professor, from Durham University, which ranges over lots of famous thinkers, with a liking for the Daoists and Existentialists, and pointing to the need to acknowledge that beyond the knowable, however defined, lies the ineffable .... 

Meanwhile, in projectland, interbeing is required and it is an art to weave one's "self", persona or whatever, with the others needed to bring visions into form ... between patience and reaching out ... experience shows that the right partners in the dance/drama/work of art lead to effortless action ... yet lassitude and wishful thinking don't help!

On a more practical note, a call arrives for a role required on Wednesday ... an assisted shopping trip, to some retail delight in Gateshead, is looking for .... shopping assistants ... whilst not a fully functional retail advisor or enthusiast, safely propelling a person in a wheelchair is within the skill set ... and provides a focus for that key ingredient of interbeing - being useful .... 

The second diary date of the week is set for Friday, when a further round of no-self exploration is booked with Cameron ... whose own train of thought is asking whether being dead is better than the alternative, though not in a negative way ... hmmm ... could be an interesting afternoon ...