Just a DMH-practices update
Sep. 1st, 2020 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temporaryrealityFirst, non-DMH related, I haven't gotten much farther into The Well-Trained Mind, having sort of just jumped into finding my first reading materials for the actual study-project.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helpingdfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).
I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
I just put a library hold on Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (thanks to an ecosophia commenter's suggestion). I also found a text version of Hesiod's Theogony and turned it into an epub file so I can read it on my ereader instead of spending more time on my computer. It's an inelegantly formatted epub file as it stands, but I may decide to clean it up and reformat it for no good reason other than to practice my ebook formatting for when I can return to helping
dfr1973 with her W. W. Atkinson project or actually write something myself (Hello works in progress, yes, I see you looking at me!).I suppose in the end, these are all loosely DMH-related in that they all tie in to the effort I'm making at "self-betterment."
Relative to the cosmogony topic, I'm continuing to slowly work my way through The Cosmic Doctrine. To be honest though, I'm not a great meditator. Today, for instance, I was instantly drowsy; and while it's true that I didn't get enough sleep last night, I still caved in and called the session off. I feel like I sort of hit the point in all my practices where I can do the basic motions but some of the "oomph" needs development. That usually indicates that I need to go back and read the instructions and figure out what I've forgotten or ignored.*
At least there's one thing showing good signs: I've been getting some very accurate readings from my "invented"** divination system. The results these last few weeks have been more accurate than Ogham ever wanted to be with me and so I'm starting to feel a little hopeful that something can be made with it.
As for the SOP, I've added two deities so far and so far neither of them has complained!
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* Though I do have to be careful to not exacerbate a tendency to always dawdle at the beginning-stages of things. This is a tightly-wrapped thread around a tangled issue that I'm working on (and that in no small way is part of the "why" behind my doing the DMH practices).
** Truly "invented" isn't the right word, I hope, because what I also hope is that it's a system tapping into something real and beyond me.
Re: math curriculum?
Date: 2020-09-13 11:58 pm (UTC)Way out in my nebulous brain-spaces there's a land where it all seems to connect - the logic, the sacred geometry (and sacred numbers), the math... I like that fantasy realm though I've not had much exposure to its topographical nuances.
I'll bet the kids are going to like things so much more when they can go on walks and talk about whatever.
The bigger blocks of subjects is quite similar to what our experience of school in Germany was. Bigger blocks and only once or twice a week (max. 3x) instead of every day being chopped into minuscule, repetitive bits. It seemed conducive to less busywork/homework because you actually had time to dive into a subject AT school.
Go meme you! :D