Summer Evening 2025#Event 1: 07 August 2025

Martin Bloomfield - Our World of Illusion

We appear to live in a world, but is it real? Are we real? Martin Bloomfield will ask: Is the whole theatre of existence an illusion? His talk will embrace:

• The relationship between dreaming and 'being awake'
• The nature of seeing.
• How the mind identifies objects.
• How we appear bound by an illusory world.
• What the remedy is for release.
• A practice to illustrate this.
  

 

Martin Bloomfield - Poet & Philosopher

Martin was brought up in North London. He married and had three children and has seven grandchildren. He was a keen sportsman, was commissioned in the Army and served in West Africa. Martin developed products for a multinational paper company and later ran a building/joinery company. He plays the cello in an orchestra and a quartet, writes sonnets, and reveres Shakespeare. He has been tutoring in the School for over 50 years.