I am hoping that my few commitments here, will not carry on much through the end of the year, or December at the latest, and then I am not taking on any further involvements.This is because, I have been thinking that it time to taste a bit of the Cape of Good Hope again.

Italy is going through a rough patch at the moment, which is affecting everyone I know, in one way of another.The scenario under the Silvio Berlusconi Government, as Frank Sinatra sang, is that "The Rich get Richer, and the Poor get Poorer." Pensioners are having their pensions reduced and similar such anti-social actions are planning to decimate the public sector and fattening the pockets of

the Big Businessmen in Black Suits.The entire Television Network has already fallen to the worst kind of gross American Violence and Commercialism that one can imagine. Though there are one or two exceptions. Perhaps this is the Shape of Things to Come for other countries as Europe drifts to the Right.

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I am glad that you have been busy, for as they say "The Devil has work for idle hands" - which is so true when one sees that Saturn is opposite Venus in the Tarot numerology - 15 and 6 respectivively.Which also says that Love, Generation,Beauty and Creativity - are always the best antidote for the selfishness and egotism of Saturn.

My work with the group of Jungians has also brought on a certain catharsis - which for me peaked on New Moon the 3rd December - overlooking Lake Varese in the home of Dr Donatella Isella - where we held the seminar.My journey thereafter to Ferrara was also a journey to a developmental point - that I am still processing, with these words, so to speak.

The theme of both seminars with the Jungian group - has basically been fragmentation - dealt with on a wide variety of levels. I will prepare this material for printing some time.What becomes very clear to me - or emerged out of this material - and the sharing of it with a group - was firstly, how far we still have to go. I asked myself to look at the fragmentation in my own life - and I do not like what I see.Not all of it is personal, or my fault - so to speak - for example with the war in Bosnia - or the contraversry with the Two Karmapa Incarnations. But there are areas in my own personal sphere, in your personal sphere, in our personal sphere, in the planetary ecology of humanity - sense of family and friends, Sangha and Mahasangha etc. - there are definite opportunities for healing and forgiving.

I have thrashed out like a beached whale before finally acquiscing and accepting the fact that one has to learn to live with this rupturing, this fragmentation.It is the basic nature of Impermanence that streams of consciousness flow this way and that, through the doors of Birth and Death.One cannot stop this process.As Joseph Campbell and C.G.Jung both pay attention to the sour realization of the middle aged as they start to gaze as a physical downhill into the grave.

The past week has been extremely hectic for me - and certainly represents a turning point. On the 4th November I started my seven-part course on COLOUR in symbolism, Hermetic systems, Tarot and so on. The first evening was a bit of a strain - as it usually is to get the energy off the ground. But the second session on Friday 11th November was very warm and stimulating, with 17 people (mostly young and shining) all booked and paid for the course. On the same day, I had tea in the afternoon with Sulak Shivasaksha - a great Buddhist social activist and founder of I.N.E.B. The International Network of Engaged Buddhists. Then after my talk we went to his 'incontro' and a cafe thereafter to continue the dialogue. As a result, I have joined INEB.

Then on Saturday the 12th I set off to Milan for the day to a planned meeting with EIGHT Doctors of Psychology.They consisted of:Dr Ugo Fama, Dr Marialfonsa Fontana-Sartorio, Dr Donatella Isella, Dr Maria Grazia Locatelli, Dr.Francesco Pennisi, Dr Cristina Rigamonti, Dr.Caterina Vezzoli, and Dr Enio (no surname obtained). As a result of this encounter I was invited to Varese in December to do another workshop with Donatella and Cristina ' and also to Florence to work with Dr Locatelli. Dr Pennisi, is coming to spend some time with me in Torino next week ' and a big conference may be formed out of our co-operative efforts.

The beautiful home of Francesco Pennisi and Catarina was the setting, in a Liberty building with a magnificent collection of beautiful books and objects d'art - what most impressed me was a collection of Etruscan vases, the Art Deco glassware - and a 17th Century painting of a Spanish Infanta. A very nourishing day - and I had to spend Sunday sleeping because of the outlay of energy in the past few days.

For me this day was a big test - because I was entirely in a completely professional environment. Some of the psychologists present were graduates of the C.G.Jung Institute in Zurich and have published their clinical work. But there was no need to worry because after the session, they each flooded me with requests for further information, bibliographical references, advice and keys to research. Then we went to a wonderful Osteria for supper - with the most magnificent Black Olives I have ever tasted and wine like the Gods must imbibe!

The immediate future looks even more active, with the publication of an essay in a book 'De Re Metallica' and my possible efforts in designing an exhibition that will launch the book.

Then, I have worked extremely hard to prepare for publication an entire range of small booklets and little magazines, which are looking good in the first stages. I will send a catalogue of these efforts as well. Enclosed is one of the first. More to follow.

"Guardare l'Acqua' is the title of an Exhibition that Peter Greenaway has on at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. 250 works designed during the production of his films, and a great set of objects etc have transfromed the interior of the Palazzo into a Greenaway film set.

Kenneth Kvarnstrom & Co from Stockholm, Digger Dog and "...that was all I wanted so I stuck my finger in his eye."

Reza Abdoh, an Iranian living in America,, homosexual and HIV positive: "When you're HIV-positive and not Magic Johnson, you don't go gently into that good night. You rage.You assault."And this is the effect of his new work: 'The Law of Remains' with his company Dar A LUZ, of which a critic says: " The violence of this work is so extreme that it becomes almost pure, almost spiritual." So, there we have it! The black-clad intellectuals busy spiritualizing Violence. The Rambo Crowd behind this, no doubt of that!

 Saburo Teshigawara, from Japan, received standing ovations in Amsterdam for his - evidence of hybrid.a solo Bones in Pages with influences like breakdancing, mime, classical dance, Noh and Butoh - and Chinese martial Arts.

15th May.Sat Bajourou Acoustic Stars, from Mali, the griot tradition of the Manding - they have a CD out on the British label Globestyle, November 1992, 'Bajourou - Big String Theory."

19th May Wed. Moscow Movement Theatre - AZART, Sumatrakade 29, Amsterdam,Tel: 693.4886. Theatre on a ship! A Russian ship that sailed from St Petersburg and is now a floating Theatre! Magnificent ambience of the rotting interior, where some of the cast actually live. They hope to Tour and World and visit Cape Town some time, as one of the Company - Robbie Baars was brought up in Cape Town.

 There was a AIDS FAX Art Exhibition in Olso last Year too. Nice idea - to have a Fax Art Exhibition - as the pieces arrive, they are put on the walls.

Visited - in London: the Director and Owner has a wonderful collection.The Temple Gallery, Richard Temple, Early Greek and Russian Icons.Important Masterpiees of the Byzantine, Cretan, Moscow and Novgorod schools from 14th - 16th centuries. Richard has written two books on Icons, both published by Element Books, and is very keen on Buddhism as well.

Gregorian Chant etc in 12th Century churches in Piemonte - Songs in Stone.

Builth Wells,Griselda and Ted Folkard, a local sculptor.

A selection of video, Super8 & 16mm presented by Heiz Hermanns of INTERVIPFILM, Berlin, at El Paso Occupato, Torino, via Passo Buole 47.Why no smaller Video Fests in S.A.??? Not expensive to ship out. Video Cafe needed, somebody? Plenty of massive catalogues available, with much experimental stuff, fractals, Mandala films etc.

THIRD TEXT - Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture. Very important art theory and cultural engineering magazin. Articles by my friend Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

 MONDO 200 User's Guide to the NEW EDGE - Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-erotic Paganism, and More, Published by Harper Perennial, 320 pages,300 photo's, paperback A4 format.

THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION.European Based link with above. Conferences and e.mail network.

 Thursday 27th May - opening at Micro galleria d'arte, torino - Sergio Minero.

 APHRODITE FESTIVAL - August 7 - 21 with James Hillman in France. PanTheatre Group. Excellent , visionary work - great conference, I have programme but could not get there LAST year too.

The BEST film of 1993 - and the BEST MUSIC TOO! ARIZONA DREAM - Emir Kusturica, 1992 with Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway. Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival.

TIME OUT -is now being published in an Amsterdam Edition.Much more creativity than the London, version, which has become very commercial and Yuppie by contrast.