We have a favourite local walk that follows the elevated line of the old Preston-Kendal canal… It was closed as a waterway in the late 1940s and drained in the
Category: Esoteric Psychology
The Glowing Ascent of ReactionThe Glowing Ascent of Reaction
We all have moments when we experience that inner sense of ‘glow and wellbeing’ – often quite unexpectedly… This usually happens when we are carrying out a task or thinking
Barriers to LoveBarriers to Love
Eight hundred years is a long way to look back and extract meaningful guidance about ‘today’s world’, and yet I can say with honesty that the historical figure whose wisdom
Age and the Inner LifeAge and the Inner Life
How old are we? It’s often a cruel question and we wrestle with the answer, knowing full well how many years downstream we are … but feeling, not too deep
Embrace of the Inner AgeEmbrace of the Inner Age
There are many symmetries in life but one of the least remarked on is the complementary states of early and later life relative to where we place our attention. When
The Unmasked HumanThe Unmasked Human
In an attitude that most of us would find chilling, Francis Crick, the Noble Laureate who co-discovered the structure of DNA, referred to it as ‘the astonishing hypothesis’. He wasn’t
The Corridor of Love and limitationThe Corridor of Love and limitation
How do our lives feel? Do we walk free on an open landscape, protected only by our sturdy clothes and boots, yet guided by our sense of the sun’s position
Musings on a Silent NightMusings on a Silent Night
I received a nice little present from WordPress the other day: a certificate to say I had been blogging with them for ten years! Ten years… Where did they go…
The Eight with Two DotsThe Eight with Two Dots
I remember being a child and considering the Yin-Yang figure for the first time. It fascinated me. I felt like I couldn’t ‘see it’ properly – as though something about
Images of ConsiderationImages of Consideration
I read a lot into nature… I study the natural world around me carefully; a lot of my joy in taking photographs is that it helps me to ‘see’ what’s
Permission to be UpsetPermission to be Upset
(Above: An orderly bicycle. Photo and title by the author) I was watching a YouTube video the other day. Made by ‘Sadhguru’ – a favourite spiritual teacher. See end of
North by NorthwestNorth by Northwest
It sits over the ocean like one of the spice-navigated, space-time warping Guild Ships from Frank Herbert’s novel ‘Dune’. It’s probably an old lighthouse extended into a cafe…probably. In front
What if the Week didn’t exist? (2) : The Planting of Life-SeedsWhat if the Week didn’t exist? (2) : The Planting of Life-Seeds
At the close of last week’s post, we concluded that, although the ‘week’ was only broadly defined as a fraction of a moon-cycle, it had become an essential ‘container’ in
Representing the InvisibleRepresenting the Invisible
For this you were called, created, formed and made… The human mind has always sought to represent the invisible… A feeling might be represented by high art, such as Michelangelo’s
Beyond The WinterBeyond The Winter
It’s at this time of year, when the nights are long and the days short and getting shorter, that we turn our attention to a what could unfold in the
Mind: Mover of the Soul 3b – birthday Pi?Mind: Mover of the Soul 3b – birthday Pi?
Why 3b? I’ve just discovered that the third post in this series published on Sun in Gemini, but not here. Why, I have no idea! Probably some ‘transient’ bug in
Mind: Mover of the Soul (2)Mind: Mover of the Soul (2)
The consideration of mind is a journey, not a concept. There’s nothing theoretical about the degree to which we believe we are ‘in-here’ in our body. That statement has two
Only the Eye that SeesOnly the Eye that Sees
—- Without the autumn I could not know the spring. The fulsome green, harmonic To elegance of death by colour, Made crisp by failing light. – Without the winter I
Mind: mover of the Soul (1)Mind: mover of the Soul (1)
Science has its definitions of what the mind is, yet, for most of us, we don’t even consider the question; driven by the fact that what would do the ‘considering’
Eye, Aye and IEye, Aye and I
One of the many paradoxes of modern mysticism is that there is no good word to describe the ‘sense of self’ that we all have, but which does not appear
THEATRE OF THE MINDTHEATRE OF THE MIND
Once a month, on the evening of the third Sunday, the Silent Eye hosts a zoom-based get-together on the internet. People join us from across the world. The purpose is
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGEALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
We could imagine ourselves as a leading actor in a play. There are other actors, but we have something unique… The play is written around our character. We are the
defining relationships (4) the mirror of lifedefining relationships (4) the mirror of life
In parts one , two, and three, we looked at the relationships we build with the world and each other. We saw that we don’t really know anyone else, fully;
Defining Relationships (3) turning withinDefining Relationships (3) turning within
Part three of a journey into the inner nature of relationships. Defining Relationships (3) turning within…
Defining Relationships (2) look-againDefining Relationships (2) look-again
In Part One, we looked at the anatomy of relationships, in a general sense. We considered how the birth separation from our mother sets off a chain of reactions that