Well-being (2017)

Total: 7.3

Discomfort (2017)

Total: 3.6

Spiritual Connection

Total:  7.1

Event highlights (2017)

Home life

Living with Srini & Rajesh

• Australian Open (Federe wins)
• About Life

Life with Martin and Kate

• Dinners
• Movies 
• Cooking (peanut stir fry, tuna and salmon, soup and caramelised onion tart, lamb shanks with Martin, Lauren, Pearl cous cous, lamb shanks and cous cous with Brendan and Eva
• DIY (guest room & bathroom)

Trips

• Cambodia
• Tasmania with Roger & Russell

Hiking

• Warren-bungles
• Sydney Bushwalkers hike (x 2)

More

• Reading iPad and coffee at The Botanica
• 5 Rhythms dancing
• Table tennis with Chris
• Bowral with Jilly - buy sculptures

Home renovation

• Home renovate (early in year)

Wisdom Trove

• Enfold template
• Wordpress set up and start uploading
• Readings about consciousness (inner experience)
• Authors linked to author pages.
• Tasmania: author pages for 20+ authors
• Plugins: Content view: lists and filters, Search Pro, Table of content, Text replace
• Design with owl in title bar
• Site for Aimee

Priceless moments (2017)

 

Connect

• Aimee site
• Martin & Kate

Home

• Internet working at 100mbs (thank you Martin!)

Wisdom Trove

• Design (template and owls)

Cambodia

• Cambodia island: Reading and summarising "I Am That"
• The lost city in the jungle
• Doing my photos in the restaurant

Movies

Spiritual Moments (2017)

Spiritual moments

• Expanded perception at airport.
• Blessing (especially after judgement)  Bless Sharmista.
• La la Land genius.  Joy and sorrow
• Sense of being in the now between two infinite gulfs. What chances?
• Deep presence lasting all walk.
• Changing images on the wall in bed.
• Abstract documentary. Platon. Architect.
• Ants. Spiders. Love.
• Spiritual high ("work of art” with Aimee)
• Dad release after dancing
• World Atlas in Blue Mountains
• Feeling awful at S21 prison in Cambodia, then saying Ho'oponopono prayer bringing release.

Aimee connection

• Conversations with Aimee in car.
• Aimee shared movie experience, then on my balcony

Being

• Mindful walks increasingly mindful
• Mindful swim at drumming
• Walk early morning Warrenbungles, kangaroos 

Wisdom

• I Am That  (Reading and summarising in Cambodie)
• The Surrender Experiment
• The Untethered Soul

Love

• Massive love release (after universe series)
• Looking into girl’s eyes at dancing, feeling love. 
• Deva Premal love - flute, looking into Jane’s eyes
• Spider and web - watch spin
• Bless mum. May she have a long, happy, healthy life.
• Bless all in IKEA dining room. Great love and oneness.
• All is well my baby.
• Tremendous self love, self tenderness. Self embracing. 

Synchronicity

• Rain stops
• Lydia tells me re Jeff Foster (movies, self acceptance)
• Light on wall
• Got to 607x bus just as came
• Consciousness in book on train
• Train after Nic not 30 mins. Only 2
• God is behind me (behind back.). Near death experience "Do not turn around.")
• In your hands life: iPhone charger in Bowral.

Insights

• Atoms and space. And Awareness.
• Complete surrender to life beyond mind.
• Complete embrace of self as I am. A human experience.
• Open up around pain. Relax heart and shoulders. Don't close.
• Relish pain coming up as opp to let go of stored pain. 
• Consciousness = inner experience = the ultimate mystery (Rupert Spira, Sam Harris etc.)
• Spacious. Aware. Surrendered.
• Voices.  Sergeant Rushmore etc.

Gratitude (2017)

Housemates

• Did not rush to make Srini leave
• Sharmista paid her rent without threat
• Martin and Kate: Two beautiful new housemates

DIY

• Wood right size for hole in dining room & found exact varnish.
• Bath paint came off.

Financial

• 60 K for RA
• Did not lose my iPhone on beach
• Don’t need to pay tax on mum’s money

In Cambodia

• Did not jump first at Kiev Island.
• Didn’t get lost without water on Kiev.
• Got safely through jungle in dark.

More

• Mack’s paw fine
• Warrenbungles
• Hot-spotting with iPhone for Mac and iPad
• Aimee not see porn.

Progress (2017)

Progress

• Eyes tested and reading glasses
• Putlocker. Solar Movies.
• Spiritual journal online. 
• Voices of the mind. Madam Flagella. Cardinal Bogi. Tobasco. Miss Coy
• Look outside from desk.
• Stop eating chicken
• Sugar diet (month)
• Working away from home. Hot spotting. 
• iPad on my back. 
• Evernote vision, principles, year view
• Grocery shopping online
• Wisdom Trove wordpress site
• Sigma 8 - 14 mm lens
• Sharing $ 500 for Gavin, $ 50-100 travel sharing
• Wordpress skills (Wisdom Trove, Aimee's site)

House

• Grey stairs and step
• Guest bathroom: vanity, shower
• My bath back to white
• Fill floor hole in dining room
• Storeroom
• Towel rack in my bathroom
• Bin cover and water heater cover
• Car cleaned & tires pumped
• Patio door handle
• Collage photos (dining room)
• Cupboard painted inside
• Paint chairs and table grey
• Blind in Martin’s room
• Fan in Martin’s room
• Dishcloth rack
• Stool for router
• Internet sorted:  100 mbs!!
• Kate IKEA, drawers, mirror
• Charging table, Kate’s platform
• Buddha statues
• Bed frame

Purchases

• Macbook
• Wide angle lens
• Kindle
• Glasses 
• Withings watch

Affirmation (2017)

Affirmation

• Xenia: Could imagine you doing a video.
• Male equivalent of Sharon  (Chris)
• Help Chris with speech on mental health
• Scott:  Love how you've written up your roomshare.
• Martin: Thought vinyl was wood
• Louise using me as success story
• House like something out of Vogue.  (Martin)
• Conversation with Jeremy (Jo party)
• You're not 46 !!
• Kate: I'm amazed by all you do.
• Kate: Practically enlightened.
• Liz re house: Do house swop. Really interested in getting one in this block. Sense of "out.”
• Zante re house: So many spaces. 
• Ikram message
• Aimee photos and site
• Aimee about her site:  Graeme, it looks absolutely amazing!  I don't even know what to say………  So funny as well the photo you choose is the one I choose too for the front page  ...I think we are defiantly on the same wavelength.  I am so happy with it, it defiantly looks more like a website now.  

Photos

• Martin's friends raving about my photos.
• Shushann lion photo up.
• Just wow !!!  Charlotte on Warrenbungles photos
• These images are just amazing. I cant thank you enough. They are just stunning.  (people in nature)  Michelle's colleague
• [Cambodia photos]  Yen Matthews: I have said this but will say it again.... You are an amazing photographer
• Aimee about portraits: My mum thought you were a professional portrait. You definitely capture Essence.
• Aimeee with photos: I’m beaming right now.
• Aimee:  I have had sooo many people tell me how incredible you are at photogrraphy.. which is really sweet. you capture the essence... the formless behind the form. How precious!
• Aimee: Dad loved photos.  Really good at what you do.

Ikram

• Graeme! Wow, it's been ages. Thanks for being such a kind soul at school. (St. George's std 3-5) I remember being afraid while keeping watch at a school campfire. Kleinmond if I recall correctly. You sat with me, calmed me down and let me know I was not alone. That if I got scared again, you'd be nearby. I have often thought of that time whenever I've found myself in trouble while growing up. I'm reminded that at that fire, I was taught that all things pass, including fear.  Thanks Graeme

Challenges (2017)

Development next door

• Greg development
• 47A Development
• Lawyer meeting & unhappy re developments

Finances and emigration

• Nedbank or Finglobal?
• SARS tax audit
• No reply from Sharon or Nedbank re trust docs

Mind

• Obsessive thoughts in Cape Town - coming off pills
• Self conscious in conversation - grasping for topics
• Numb emotions with new pill

House and housemates

• Srini unhappy re door off and work in his room.
• Mal the plumber not coming - under pressure
• Anger with Sharmista
• Key to garage lost for day.
• Guest bed creaky
• Vanity wonky
• Rushing DIY - feeling stressed, under pressure to advertise asap
• Kate will leave
• Slow Internet
• Kate’s car with spark plugs. $540, not working.
• My car, where keep it? 

More

• Yogi high, and lashes out.
• Chrisel boyfriend and shame
• Mind low ram
• Cut finger
• No dex for 48 hours.
• Roger moodiness in Tasmania
• Wedding site banned
• Sore back
• Liza and vet, Mack anxiety
• Shy and reserved in 1st part of Cambodia

Special connections (2017)

Connect

• Anderson’s glad I was at lawyers & wonderful re carpentry
• Mum’s birthday - write message
• Aimee conversations in car and at coffee
• Conversations with Kate
• Martin and Kate dinners
• Deep sharing with Tina (Cambodia)
• Connecting with Sok (Ratankiri)

Service

• Help Chris with speech (x2)
• Found car keys for Jilly
• Help Chris with CV
• Heather - book on Kindle
• Set up computer for Chris
• ESL resources for Aimee
• Photos for Michelle’s new site
• Sue’s Queensland photos
• Jilly to dr X 2
• Jilly money back
• Aimee: Site
• Wedding site for Roger
• Site for Brendan

Insights (2017)

•  Did not rush into telling Srini to leave
• Rush to tell Sharon re Yogi without planning it
• Did not rush into threat with Sharmista.  Sent her blessings.
• Mal Plumber under immense pressure - took personally. 
• Interplay of Essence and Substance
• Make decisions using Consciousness ladder
• Surrender - no agency, nothing personal

Non fiction books read (2017)

Idealism

• Biocentrism (Robert Lanza)

Science and the universe

• The Holographic Universe (Michael Talbot)
• From Science to God (Peter Russell)
• The Self-Aware Universe (Amit Goswami)

Waking up

• Deep Awake: Wake Up To Oneness and Become a Lover of Life (Tim Freke)
• How Long is Now?: How to be Spiritually Awake in the Real World (Tim Freke)
• Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream (Tim Freke)
• Soul Story: Evolution and The Purpose of Life (Tim Freke)
• Waking Up (Sam Harris)
• Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make them Permanent (Steve Taylor)

Free will

• Free Will (Sam Harris)

The power of awareness 

• The Untethered Soul ((Michael A. Singer)
• The Surrender Experiment (Michael A. Singer)
• Here Now (Ram Das)

Advaita Vedanta

• I Am That (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
• Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became (Mooji)

Technology (and consciousness)

• Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)

2017 Highlights

Cambodia, Tasmania and Melbourne, 5 Rhythms Dancing, Wisdom Trove into Wordpress, Martin & Kate

Priceless Moments

• An invigorating swim at Swim at Danger Bay in Cape Town and swimming at Silvermine.
• Getting glasses in Cape Town - what a difference!
• A wonderful Deva Premal concert with my Eckhart Group.
• Dancing at the Drum Circle and at 5 Rhythms dancing.
• Completing my home rennovations and reaping the rewards with higher rent.
• Martin and Kate, my two wonderful new housemates, doing Sunday meals (learning to cook) and watching great movies and TV shows.
• Martin sorting out our slow Internet, making it super fast.
• A wonderful long weekend hiking and exploring little caves at Warrumbungles.
• A long weekend of hiking with the hiking gang in the Blue Mountains and getting to meet Mark.
• Overnight hiking at Budawang and doing yoga poses at the viewpoint.
• Several Sydney hikes with Srini and Rajesh, especially rock hopping at the Royal National Park and Maroubra to Le Perouse.
• Photographing Roger and Jocelyn's wedding and creating them a photography site.
• Playing in the snow at Cradle Mountain and hiking in the snow at Mount Fields with Russell.
• Going to the poetry slam with Chris at The Opera House.
• Peru Festival with Elna and getting tiddly on Pisco Sours
• Finding a design and creating Wisdom Trove and starting to migrate content.
• Doing a web site for Brendan.
• Creating a web site for Aimee and doing a photoshoot.
• Reading about consciousness at The Botanica.
• Exploring Cambodia for a month, especially exploring Angkor Wat and Tah Prom, the elephant sanctuary at Mondulkiri, seeing Gibbons in Ratanakiri and lazing on the island of Koh Ta Kiev Island

Purchases

• Macbook
• 8 - 16 wide angle lens
• Powerbank
• Kindle

Movies and TV series watched

• Lion
• Nocturnal Animals
• Planet Earth 2
• La La Land
• The Arrival
• WestWorld
• Beauty and the Beast 
• Gattaca
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Okja 
• Taboo
• Dunkirk
• Spiderman: Homecoming
• Game of Thrones S6

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2017 Index of Links

Cape Town   (Jan)

• Visit Joanna and Steve (Jan)
• Matt's 14th birthday (Jan)
• Lunch at Katima (Jan)
• Swim at Danger Bay (Jan)
• Helping Matt get ready for school (Jan)
• Matt's first day of high school (Jan)
• Lunch with Heather (Jan)
• Visiting The Pater and Kobus.
• Clifton (Jan)
• Silvermine with family (Jan)
• Farewell dinner (Jan)

Melbourne and Tasmania  (Sep)

• Brighton Beach
• Roger's bachelor's party
• Roger and Jocelyn's wedding
• Llamas in The Yarra
• Penguin
• On the road in Tasmania
• Stanley
• Cradle Mountain
• Launceston
• Mount Fields
• Hobart

Cambodia   (Nov, Dec)

• Phnom Penh - S21 prison and The Killing Fields
• Phnom Penh - The Royal Palace
• Phnom Penh - The Silver Pegola
• Phnom Penh  -  by the river
• Angkor Wat
• Monks of Angkor Wat
• Temple monkeys
• Bayon Temple
• Tah Prom
• Temples of the Grand Circuit
• Boeung Mealea - the lost temple
• Kratie
• Mondulkiri
• Ratanakiri
• Ream National Park and Koh Ta Kiev Island
• Cambodia research map

Hiking and weekends  (13 hikes)

• Warrumbungles (Apr)
• Loftus to Bundeena (Apr)
• Thornleigh to Hornsby (May)
• Fortress Creek, Blue Mountains, with SBW  (May)
• Blue Mountains Long Weekend (Jun)
• Royal National Park with Srini and Rajesh (Jul)
• Budawang (Jul)
• Maroubra to Le Perouse with Srini. (Aug)
• Botany Bay with Srini (Aug)
• Mt Waratah (Aug)
• Taronga Zoo to Manly with Srini (Aug)
• Mount Fields with Russell in the snow (Sep)
• Hiking with Srini at Glenbrook (Nov)

Walks

• Ball's Head with Lydia and Sharon (Jan)
• Ball's Head with Martin and Elna (Apr)
• Meet Up - Milson's Point to Flat Rock Gully (Apr)
• Wendy's Secret Garden with Mack (Apr)
• Gore Cove Walk with Martin (Apr)

Photography

• Jasmine photo shoot (May)
• Vivid Festival (Jun)
• Roger and Jocelyn's wedding (Sep)
• Photoshoot with Aimee (Nov)

DIY

• Driving to IKEA in a storm (Feb)
• DIY on guest bedroom and bathroom and finding a housemate (Mar)
• Creating cover for bins  (Mar)

Spiritual

• Kevin James chanting evening  (Feb)
• Drum Circle   (Feb)
• Deva Premal (Feb)
• 5 Rhythms Dancing (May)

Service

• Web site for Brendan  (Aug)
• Helping Aimee with her site  (Oct)
• Web site for Aimee launched (Dec)
• Helping Chris with his international travel speech (Oct)
• Helping Chris with his new computer (May)

Family

• Mum's 70th birthday  (Feb)

Birthdays

• Jilly's birthday at Botanica    (Feb)
• Abe's birthday at Jilly (Jun)

Eating out

• Dinner at Himalayan Grill with hiking gang (Mar)
• Me and Mack at Botanica (Jul)
• Chris, Jilly and Des at The Botanica (Jul)
• Jo's 40th birthday at Mexican restaurant
• With Mack at The Botanica (Jun)

Dinners

• My lunch for my Hiking Gang (Jul)

Xmas

• Xmas eve lunch with Yogi (Dec)
• Xmas with Brendan and Eva (Dec)

Mack

• Mack wins most fabulous senior doggie (Jun)
• With Mack at The Botanica (Jun)

Festivals and shows

• Poetry Slam with Chris  (Oct)
• World Press Exhibit and Peru Festival with Elna (Jun)
• Banff Mountain Festival (May)

Get togethers with friends

• Newtown with Srini and Rajesh  (Feb)
• Chris Toastmaster's speech (Apr)
• Dancing, then Bondi Beach with Lydia, Sharon, Aimee (May)
• Facebook message from Ikram  (Jun)
• Table tennis with Chris (Jun)
• Gavin "Do You Mind?" book launch (Oct)
• Boys night out with Srini and Gavin (Aug)
• Three Musketeers reunited (Dec)

Related

• Spiritual journey (2017)