Essays on becoming by Chris Barclay
The first thing I thought about in designing the approach to this private member’s club in Chiang Mai Thailand was, I wanted people to feel lost. When you feel lost, you seek to find your way through a novel process of inquiry. There can also be an unease that causes you to question your judgment […]
Continue ReadingIn Dr. Oliver Sack’s book, The Mind’s Eye, the famous neurologist explores clinical cases of individuals afflicted with fascinating perceptual aberrations, including the inability to recognize faces. Sacks, who himself suffered from this disorder all of his life, recounts a case of apologizing to a bearded man he had bumped into when in fact it […]
Continue Reading“There is always an inner game being played in your mind no matter what outer game you are playing. How aware you are of this game can make the difference between success and failure in the outer game.” -Tim Gallwey When we learn to pay attention to the conversation that we are constantly having with […]
Continue ReadingFrom previous posts, you’ve probably come across my interest in the virtual world. This is not the computer/cyber world, though we’ve built computers to mimic the processes of our own brains. The virtual world I’m interested in is one constructed from our own mental projections. It’s the waking lucid dream we refer to as reality.
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