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The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) was the political and economical centre of Rome during the Republic. It emerged as such in the 7th century BCE and maintained this position well into the Imperial period, when it was reduced to a monumental area. It was mostly abandoned at the end of the 4th century.

The Forum Romanum is located in a valley between the Capitoline Hill on the west, the Palatine Hill on the south, the Velia on the east and Quirinal Hill and the Esquiline Hill to the north. The Velia was levelled in Antiquity.

The importance of the Forum area is indicated by the presence of many of the central political, religious and judicial buildings in Rome. The Regia was the residence of the kings, and later of the rex sacrorum and pontifex maximus; the Curia, was the meeting place of the Senate; and the Comitium and the Rostra, where public meetings were held. Major temples and sanctuaries in the Forum include the Temple of Castor and Pollux, the Temple of Saturn and the Temple of Vesta. Commercial and judicial activities took place in the basilicas, the two remaining are the Basilica Aemilia and the Basilica Julia. Due to the political importance of the area there were also numerous honorary monuments.

I would say very important – especially in a global firm where English can be considered a pre-requisite for a person’s career. It is often taken for granted today that most people speak English, but this is not always the case. What you have to consider is that there are many people who learnt some English at school but never really needed it for their jobs. They may understand when you talk to them in English, but when they have to express themselves or express a concept in English, it can be very challenging. And this is not only true for older generations.

You have a lot of practical experience in a multilingual company. Could you give any anecdotes?

The communication between German people and Swiss German people: Swiss German people are taught High German at school, so you would expect them to be at ease conversing in High German with their German colleagues. In reality, I have witnessed many situations in which Swiss people prefer to switch to English. They feel more comfortable speaking in a non-native language because they have a level playing field. It is a way of finding a comfort zone.

What other communication problems could arise?

We often notice discomfort among non-native English speakers when they are in meetings with native English or American colleagues, who are very eloquent. Native speakers often use certain expressions or anecdotes to really put their point across. This visual language is something that non-native speakers cannot match. Even though content-wise they might make very important points, they will not reach the audience with the same level of impact.

Thanks Michael for your input regarding copyright and Mr "C".

And thank you Dan/Herneson for responding to my query about the Green Stone video.

I would most definitely like to see a copy of this but appreciate that there may be certain difficulties involved if you copied to sell it. If this was not possible because of any intransigence on the part of the original makers of the video, then would you be prepared to perhaps post it on Youtube or similar?

Thanks!

 Regards, Shadowman

HernesSon said:

It's really something that should be of interest for the questing community and really needs to be preserved for all to see. If Mr "C" has strong objections I won't copy circulate it which was the concern awhile back, but I can't see why not, with the anniversary of the green stone story and all?

If that's the Green Stone documentary that I've seen then Mr C didn't have anything to do with that one.  It was done by Phillips, Keatman, et al, but without any involvement from Andy Collins.  To avoid breaking copyright laws you'd need to get permission from Phillips and Keatman I expect, maybe others.

Michael

Hello

Sorry for finding this late. I have been rather busy lately and don't often check this site as often as I used to.

The artefact was a home-made pendulum made from a lead fishing weight on string. I happen to also have a photo of the stone from Gaynor which she kindly offered to sign and threw in with the pendulum. I still have it.

Now the Green Stone documentary. I do have a dvd backup copy of it which you've just reminded me about, thanks. It's been awhile since I viewed it, but it's definately worth seeing and a real rarity.

It's really something that should be of interest for the questing community and really needs to be preserved for all to see. If Mr "C" has strong objections I won't copy circulate it which was the concern awhile back, but I can't see why not, with the anniversary of the green stone story and all?

Give me a chance to locate it and we can go from there. I might even post it on you tube, but it's getting the time.

Dan

Hi Michael,

Many thanks for the update, very much appreciated. I was really disappointed that I couldn't make it, but I guess that's life sometimes.

I can understand the frustrations with the artefact 'quest'!

Kind Regards

Baruc.

Hello Baruc,

I went and had a great time, and yes the weather was fantastic.  The first day was Andy talking about what you can achieve through psychic questing referring to his own work.  The second day was about the practical side of you go about it.

So on the first day was the 30th Anniversary Green Stone presentation, as it is 30 years this October since the original Green Stone quest.  This was followed by two further presentations about how more recently Andy has been going back to some of the threads of the 1979 quest and discovering a mass of interesting stuff.  The afternoon was taken up by talks about questing in Egypt relating to the discovery of the Giza caves.  All really interesting.  Too much to go into here I'm afraid.

The second day had advice that I believe recaptitulated some of the material from last year's Weekender as well as the artificact retrieval fun and games.  I have to admit to doing exceptionally badly at this! Having initially got a strong image of a stone and a clear idea of which quadrant of Avebury it was located in, I managed to find 'my' stone.  However, it turned out that I was in the wrong quadrant.  I also got completeley wrong the nature of the artifact - I kept getting the impression of something like a ice-cream stick with different colours on each side, whereas it was a small bronze horse thing.  Oh well.  All of us who got the wrong quadrant did get a second chance to locate the correct stone in the right quadrant.  While standing I heard a metallic clink from somewhere behind me.  Alas, when it came to facing the stone I thought it was from I was somewhat out.  Obviously need to work on my latent psychic thingumy!

The weekend ended with a walk up Waden Hill, overlooking Silbury Hill.  A meditation was done there, but I had to leave before the med.  However, I went away with a golden glow.

Hello The Lady B!

Welcome to this site (although I am a newby too, having only just discovered the site).

I note that you are from Barwell, Leicestershire and since I live in that county maybe we can share experiences and encourage one another in this field as the scene in Leicestershire at least is very quiet and there's no-one else as far as I am aware who is involved in PQ, let alone interested in the subject.

I hope to hear further from you in due course.

Many thanks!

Shadowman