Our Silent Eye Explorations group meets online via Zoom on the third Sunday of the month at 8 pm UK time. For April, our topic is Presence. We live in
Tag: Mindfulness
Wayland: The White Horse…Wayland: The White Horse…
* But according to some, Wayland has far more onerous responsibilities than shoeing the horses of passing way farers… * A group of local lads were enjoying a drink one
Irony Age dwelling…?Irony Age dwelling…?
Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… * Why? * Why, would anyone… * In their right mind… * Choose… * To dwell… * Here?
A Preponderance of Stone: Pentre Ifan…A Preponderance of Stone: Pentre Ifan…
Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… * Angles of Approach… * Concord of Stones… * Step forward Spirit… * Claws of what?… * Pinnacle
A Preponderance of Stone…A Preponderance of Stone…
Image and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… Sky and Sea… * Crudeness of Precision… *Maw of Earth… *Inner and Outer… * Before and Beyond… *
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig…
* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element.
Deluge…Deluge…
* “You know Shuruppak, the ancient city? I was its king, long ago, when the Great Gods sent a flood. * Ea informed me and I built a big boat.
Hearing Beyond Fear…Hearing Beyond Fear…
* We do not take these things lightly. We try to approach them as informally as possible. We want to share their magic and inspiration with others. We want people
A Bibliomantic Tale II…A Bibliomantic Tale II…
* Llandudno Bay: the Great Orme. * Tee minus Two-Four hours and counting… No 3 ‘The greatest religious and moral truth to which man must grow is that we cannot
Flight of the Seer VII…Flight of the Seer VII…
* Given our quiet revolution, it was heartening that so many of the Companions stayed on after the workshop to play out in the landscape. The feeling was that many
‘The Hill in a Dark Grove’…‘The Hill in a Dark Grove’…
Images and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * * Sunday saw the Company approaching our final Sacred Site… * * Re-discovering over breakfast that the burial mound of
‘The Druidic Lake’…‘The Druidic Lake’…
* One by one… * * We divested ourselves… * * Of our outgrown tendencies, which went into the lake. * * The lake which may or may not have
The Pebbled Shore…The Pebbled Shore…
Image and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * As our ‘briefing’ on Friday evening had elicited the information that several of our Companions were ardent pebble collectors… *
Golden Hours…Golden Hours…
Image and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * * It is difficult to conceive, perhaps, the birth pangs of a Giant which stands for a land mass… *
Bearings…Bearings…
Images and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * * One of the good things about our association with The Silent Eye… * * Is that we get to
Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…
Skein of Time …Gloom. We head into a green gloom of Heber’s very own making, for the late evening light is still bright in the sky… and almost immediately we
A Time Machine in DerbyshireA Time Machine in Derbyshire
A friend who had never been to one of our workshops asked me recently, “But what’s it really like doing that sort of stuff, is it just make-believe and good
The Light and the Eye of the CobraThe Light and the Eye of the Cobra
The water was soft on his skin. He was used to bathing in the river at sunset, but there was something special about today. He looked across at the glittering