BlindWisdom is the convergence of several life paths, the place where the apparent disparities of a sixty-year walk are resolved.

These are the paths that have converged:

• Twenty-five years of work with children and families.
• Ten years as a professional teacher and school administrator.
• Twenty years' engagement in the non-profit sector, with a strong commitment to sustainability, clarity of vision, and community development.
• Twenty-five years of studying the Kabbala.
• In the past five years I have become blind (there's still a vestigial visible world, but it becomes less and less relevant).

"Blindness is a dramatic gift."

Blindness is a dramatic gift. As the visible world continues to disappear I understand that our whole cognitive structure is based on visual information. The implications of this are enormous. Almost three hundred years ago William Blake recognized the tyranny of the five senses, and understood that our sensory input, especially visual input, is conditioned by the cultural and political framework we live in.

In the early 1980's I began a serious study of the Kabbala, particularly of the Tree of Life, which is a core structure, a compendium of almost three thousand years of accumulated wisdom and knowledge. That structure has largely replaced the visual framework. I guess I could say it has rewired me, and as a result the apparently disparate trajectories of my life have fused into one energetic centre, which I'm calling BlindWisdom.