The well trodden foothills of the meditative mind

  And here I am, back in the north, fresh from an interesting break in the Nederlands capital. I am certainly no aficionado of ‘mind altering’ plants and the like, but when in ‘Rome’…. The onset seems to propel one along the well trodden foothills of the meditative mind; the boundary zone between one state …

The Projected World

My mind seems to work better in a visual context; I relate to patterns much more readily than along other more abstract lines. This is fine though, as the rise of modern computer technology, means it has never been easier to model, map and visualize some of the most complex relationships ‘thrown up’ by this …

The Colour of Magic

When we think about colour, it feels natural to imagine it as just the representation of a particular wavelength of light, but then, on such a basis, ‘magenta’ turns out not to be a colour at all! It does not have a wavelength and we can find no trace of it on the visible spectrum. …