* * Our encounter with Dyffryn Ardudwy on the previous day had whetted our prehistoric appetite. The challenge now was to find a suitable site on our journey back en-route
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A Bibliomantic Tale VIII…A Bibliomantic Tale VIII…
* Pennant Valley * A slight change to the Sunday Morning plans means that there are two readings for one location this time. Escape * Pages Two-One-One and Two-One-Two No
A Bibliomantic Tale VII…A Bibliomantic Tale VII…
* Harlech Castle * “Patrick McGoohan’s, ‘The Prisoner’, displays many thematic similarities to Franz Kafka’s, ‘The Castle’ and ‘The Trial’.” Authority Pages One-Five-Two and One-Five-Three * No 8 (Light) O
A Bibliomantic Tale VI…A Bibliomantic Tale VI…
* A Prisoner of Portmeirion? * Resistance “Pages Two-Five-One and Two-Five-Two” * No 8 (Light) ‘The sexual origin of the lingam is, of course, obvious, but this only brings out
A Bibliomantic Tale…A Bibliomantic Tale…
** “Curses,” said Butch, tugging at his collar in the sticky heat. “Now, what?” sighed Serafina. “It’s another of those Silent Eye thing-a-me-jigs.” “A Walk and Talk Weekend?” “That’s the
Spirit Animals by Running ElkSpirit Animals by Running Elk
Reblogged from Shamanic Paths This post is based on the outline of an exploration session presented at The Silent Eye (a modern mystery school) “Leaf and Flame: the Foliate Man”
The Feathered Seer – Patterns of enchantmentThe Feathered Seer – Patterns of enchantment
‘The hidden world has its clouds and rain, but of a different kind. Its sky and sunshine are of a different kind. This is made apparent to those
The Feathered Seer – The bitter dropThe Feathered Seer – The bitter drop
‘If you have not lived through something it is not true’ Kabir The fourth ritual took us to a place of fear. Within the local landscape there is a high
The Feathered Seer – Divining meaningThe Feathered Seer – Divining meaning
‘In former times the soul was feathered all over’ Plato The third ritual of the workshop weekend was named Deadshaw Sick after the strip of land that divides the lands
The Feathered Seer – The observerThe Feathered Seer – The observer
”The spirit is so closely linked to the body as a thing that the body never ceases to be haunted.’ Georges Bataille We had chosen five of the ancient and
The Feathered Seer – FearThe Feathered Seer – Fear
‘All of you undisturbed cities, haven’t you ever longed for the Enemy?’ Rainer Maria Rilke “Burn and Grieve.” The title stared back at me from the screen. It seemed prophetic.
Flight of the Seer VI…Flight of the Seer VI…
Alethea Kehas and Barbara Walsh holding a photograph of Obi. * For those Companions who study the Silent Eye Correspondence Course the Sunday morning of our April Workshop is a
Flight of the Seer V…Flight of the Seer V…
* Any creative endeavour involves hazard. We are fortunate enough to work with an eclectic and talented bunch of souls which inevitably lessens that hazard. With our previous Workshop, Leaf
Flight of the Seer IV…Flight of the Seer IV…
* “No one else is doing this.” “So far as we are aware.” “And if they are doing it they are not doing it in quite the same way.” *
Flight of the Seer III…Flight of the Seer III…
* …Anyway, a quiet revolution has been under way over the last five years. We have been gradually expanding the boundaries of the temple ritual and nudging it outside and
Flight of the Seer II…Flight of the Seer II…
* …With this year’s April Workshop, we returned to source. Five years ago, The Song of the Troubadour birthed our school and opened the gateway to three levels of Enneagram
Abiding Moments…Abiding Moments…
Images and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend. * * Trearddur Bay in dawn light… * * The Companions make their way to the ‘Druid Lake’… * * Mountains
‘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… *
Walk on…Walk on…
* Through dead dwellings of the living… * * * * And on… * * Under a dead dwelling of the dead… * * * * And on… * *
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… *
Child’s play?Child’s play?
She orders him around unmercifully while he looks at her with utter adoration in his eyes. If ordering does not work, she brings out the secret weapon…the smile, the cheeky
Locked inLocked in
Image: Golden Cage by Der Cooky I had not been to the cinema in decades really, until Peter Jackson came along with Lord of the Rings. The TV remote was,
Land of the Exiles 2014 – a vision of the hillside ritualLand of the Exiles 2014 – a vision of the hillside ritual
A fictionalised account of the hillside rite from the Land of the Exiles workshop 2014, extract taken from Doomsday: Dark Sage. The seeing stone is chill against my spine as
That which does not die…That which does not die…
The Soul Attains – Edward Burne-Jones Elaine He fences right well yon Knight of Arthur’s realm. Lancelot Yet he seems to my mind a little coy. Bedivere Perhaps size is