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Alan Jones’ Blogs

One of the things I wanted to do this year was to make sure that I kept up to date with my on-line writing…. heck if I want to develop as a blogger I need to blog.

Anyone who has caught some of my posts will have noticed that they are often eclectic, generally rambling and often opinionated! I would also hope some are mildly entertaining too…

In the past my blogging attempts have been somewhat scattered and so I chose to create different blogs for different audiences. At the start of 2012 I decided to pull the various strands together in the following blogs. Hopefully this help help those of you who stumble across this blog to find something from my interests which match yours.

This blog  (AlanBJones.com)will largely be about the news, views and events that I want to make some kind of personal comment about.

The following blogs will serve a very specific purpose:-

The Rational Mystic (TheRationalMystic.com) will feature posts that are in he most part sceptical but also maintain a link to the subjective nature of personal experience.

The Real Twilight Zone (TheRealTwilightZone.com) will host the radio show of the same name which is presented through Penwith Radio. TRTZ is the podcast which is the voice of Rational Mysticism

Alan Jones Magic and Mentalism Blog (AlanJonesMagic.net) features comments, thoughts and reviews from the world of magic and conjuring – one of my main professional interests.

Alan Jones Transforming Minds (MindAlignment.com) this is the focus of my NLP and Transpersonal Psychology work.

Alan Jones Education (AlanJonesEducation.com) features posts about my work in Teaching, Learning and Behaviour Management

References to NLP and related topics can be found on my Inspire NLP blog (InspireNLP.co.uk)

Finding Your Business Edge (FindingYourBusinessEdge.com) is the blog that is linked to my business coaching programme on Penwith Radio.

Alan Jones Radio (AlanJonesRadio,com) and Al Jones Music (AlJonesMusic.com) will feature show notes and show from the radio and some of my excursions into songwriting and music respectively.

And that, for the moment, is that. It is my ambition that by the end of February 2012 all of these blogs will be up and running with regular content updates.

For the moment the key blogs will be The Real Twilight Zone, The Rational Mystic, my educational, transforming minds, magic and radio blogs as these link to my work directly.

Of course this blog will continue to feature thoughts, reflections, comments and ideas.

I hope you will be able to visit some of my other blogs and, if they are of interest subscribe to them, and if appropriate, the newsletters listed on them.

Until next time

 

Alan

websites of interest:

www.aljones.net

www.alanjonesmagic.com

www,inspireNLP.com

www.magic4learning.com

www.penwithradio.co.uk

 

 

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Magic 4 Learning

Math-e-Magic Book Released!

www.magic4learning.com

Broken Wand

There are few professional magicians who have not been influenced, informed or inspired by this creative genius.

I had the good fortune of meeting Ali Bongo on a few occasions and also to hear him lecture. He always struck me as a quiet, reserved and gentle person off stage which seemed at odds with some of his frenetic and brilliantly over-the-top performances. A particular memory is of a mini-coach trip with the London Society of Magicians when I was Secretary there, to an IBM picnic in the Midlands. Ali quietly and humbly shared some of his thoughts, offering observations and comments to many of the keen amateurs in a positive and humble way.

A superb entertainer; a great magician and a truly creative sorcerer.

When I first heard the news (via Paul Daniels twitter this morning I was inspired to go back and look at my Ali Bongo’s Book of Magic and whilst sending my deepest sympathy to Ali’s family and friends I found myself wanting to celebrate the genius of the man and feel thankful for all that he contributed to the art.

Ali Bongo (William Wallace)born on December 8, 1929. He died of pneumonia on March 8, 2009, aged 79

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5870288.ece

It’s a kind of magic… perhaps


We are living in interesting times…

With so much negativity around is it any wonder that people become insular, self-focussed and self-limiting. Hell, I’d be the first to admit that there are some scary financial problems out there – and of course my own situation is as precarious as the next persons.

BUT the magic that we can all access is that of the ability to shift perspective from time to time. Yes – its tough, but moaning about it and being locked into a ‘woe is me’ mindset simply won’t help anyone or anything.

Shifting perspective perhaps means that you can focus on the possibilities rather than the failings and the creative rather than the submissive.

There is a wisdom in knowing what you can change and what you can’t (yet); in choosing the battles you fight and those you are courageous enough to forfeit.

If these are testing times then it is perhaps time to access the wisdom within and learn from the wizard without… after all living is a kind of magic.

Alan 18.00

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