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Conversations with an aesthetic alien. A podcast about music, poetry and psychogeography.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise. Buy my book On Mor...
The Habitual Body is like an exoskeleton of thoughts, preconceptions, karmic traces, emotions and aspirations. Some are obvious and familiar...
Perhaps Karma is embedded in the universe in the same way gravity, electromagnetism and Newton's laws of Thermodynamics. In which case why a...
My dog (Reggie) died recently which makes me very sad and reminds of two other good dogs. Argos ( who waited for Odysseus's return and was t...
The quality of time, the 'kinds' of time that occur during a day at my corporate job helps to think about the moments in meditation. More ep...
The state of Bafflement gives rise to realisation, wonders, concerns, confusion, theories, hypotheses and notions. I'd suggest that the inte...
The thinking mind is like the wind on top of Everest; the birds flying around a mountain. More episodes on meditation notes here: https://ww...
I often clarify ideas for this podcast during my morning meditation. But during meditation I am trying to reach a state of equipoise. Surely...
A sine wave exists only because there is a periodic trough as well as the peak. Maintaining equanimity through those transitions ( inhale/ex...
Alan Watts wrote _The Book_ to plant a seed of an idea about the ongoing cycles in our Being. What he calls the 'head-Tailed Cat' of 'GoWith...
Marcus Aurelius mirrors Socrates in his analysis of death - - Larkin categorically ( and in quite wonderful poetry) disputes. More episodes...
Confidence in the outcome of scrutiny, Authenticity and spontaneity will come out of the processes and practices of an examined life as sure...
Why would I turn my efforts towards a 'magically realistic science fiction trilogy"? What indeed! Buy my book On Mortality and the Human Ima...
Talking to Socrates often left his talking partners bewildered, dazzled, unsure of what any language or thought might mean. We're given the...
Can I create a trend line based on the resonant patterns that arise, abide and dissolve? From the smallest thought to the longest pattern I...
Sometimes I journal simply for the pleasure of feeling pen on paper ( an excuse to collect cool notebooks and beautiful pens). Sometimes I j...
I have the habit on a Saturday afternoon to pour myself a bourbon, strike a match to light a pipe of Latakia tobacco and to thus apply mysel...
I recently rummaged through my bookshelf and came up with three books that turns out give a really nice sequence. Opening the Door to Bon by...
I'm enjoying the process of writing fiction. That's a new kind of writing for me, I'm an essayist at heart. What if I approach the thorny pr...
What are your experiences with 'writers block'? When I find myself not writing, it is rarely when I'm looking at a blank piece of paper. Wha...
I've been criticized for using the term ZenGlop - -that this silly word trivializes the substance and structure of my work. Fair enough, per...
Thoughts on recently finished composition for piano and electronics. Also a consideration of what it feels like inside an MRI, and whether t...
We bring to each moment a set of insights, capabilities, strengths ( weaknesses) - - and even as this accumulated wisdom may be obscured by...
If music is a still, then I am a fermented mash ready to be evaporated and precipitated out as an alchemical spirit. Buy my book On Mortalit...
Thinking more about Socrates and his final day described in Phaedo, I asked myself what my final meal would be. Turns out....Mahler and spar...
On the morning of the day when he would be executed, Socrates woke from a good night's sleep; massaged his feet; slowly placed his feet on t...
Kathryn (otherwise known as Mrs. ZenGlop) is taking a course online with Pema Chodron, We were talking at dinner last night and one of the t...
Probably not. We all have slightly different physiology, and that's particularly evident in our hearing especially as we age. Hearing tests...
Art - the aesthetic object, whether music, poetry, painting, landscape - stimulates a wide range of responses in us. What about art that nee...
What I've been thinking about lately is the formulation "What Would do?". It's important to have a teacher in spiritual practice. The experi...
Welcome back to a new season of the podcast. On New Years Eve, Jean-Michel Jarre broadcast a concert set in a Virtual Reality Notre-Dame cat...
There are no requirements to meet or hurdles that need to be overcome before we can choose to interject compassion into the immediate moment...
I finished reading " Red Comet: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath" , a recent biography written by Heather Clark. Reading Plath...
A leap of faith? Or should it be a leap from faith? What about a leap from Realisation? A leap into what? Towards what? Is it a leap, or are...
The Bodhicitta vow is the aspiration to bring compassion and empathy in all action of body, speech and mind. I like the 'planetary gravity'...
We are surrounded by noise, just about all of which we filter out either mechanically or mentally. But when I made note of unexpected and be...
Picking back up on my opera ("Love,Love,Bing,Bing" an opera about the Soviet Space Dog program). Focusing for now on the text and trying to...
It's time for my meditation practice to shift gears. The last several months have been a focus on a certain set of prayers and chants...I'm...
How much did Sisyphus know about the nature of his punishment? Did he know that the rock was fated to roll back down? Or did he think he had...
Vera Lotar Shevchenko was a French pianist who studied with Alfred Cortot, married a Russian - both arrested and sent to Siberia. She surviv...
Messiaen considered birdsong a divine source of inspiration, one that happily coincided with his interests as a composer (tritone harmony, e...
The mind produces an ongoing chatter - what my teacher calls the "undermutter". Neither good nor bad, meditation practice puts this noise in...
Some thoughts on a project I'm starting....to create a map of the Very Low Frequency (VLF) electromagnetic forms on Penn ave ( Pittsburgh)....
One of the phrases I like to use is to call a 'Thing' an 'Aesthetic Object'. The 'Aesthetic Object' compels a confrontation with the vectors...
"Required Writing" is a collection of journalism written by the poet Philip Larkin. I picked up a copy because included in the book is a tra...
Welcome back. I didn't intend to stop podcasting for the last month and I return with renewed inspiration. The music, poetry and meditation...
Renunciation is not denial. It is the embrace of creativity. the first step towards experiencing the nature of Mind. Send me a note at zengl...
One way of describing modular synthesis is to look at the studio as oscillators, filters and envelopes modulated by control voltage. To para...
I learned a new word over the weekend..'pataphysics. The apostrophe is intentional and I presume silent when spoken. Do you know anything ab...
We all live in a landscape ( inner and outer) where negative emotions like anxiety, despair, anger reside right next to deep compassion, str...