by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Really? A giant, black, Jaguar materialised from the south face of the Chichen Itza pyramid and thundered across the ground to devour you? On one level, it’s a preposterous thing to write; on another, it’s the heart of the matter. “If you can’t let go,” Jerome had said, under the quiet shadows of the one silent place in the hotel grounds, … Read More Unexpected Shaman (4) – In the Mouth of the Jaguar
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
Many foxes…Copyright: MJ Heritage @ Mr Fox Fast forward a year to the “Leaf and Flame: the Foliate Man” weekend. The directors of the Silent Eye (a modern mystery school), not really knowing what they might be letting themselves in for, honoured me with a request to present one of the exploration sessions. These punctuate the weekend, expanding on…
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
There’s something wrong with the two-legs. She’s not broken exactly, but she’s not working right. I keep having to remind her about impotant things… like my dinner. ‘Off colour’ she calls it… I thought that only happened to the fish when they go weird, but no. This time she’s right…she is a funny colour. Normally my…
by Steve Tanham
In every mystical gathering, of whatever nature, there comes that moment when a correctly constructed ‘vessel’ is taken over – however fleetingly – by a sense of ‘otherness’. Experience teaches us that this is actually paradoxical. What is ‘taking over’ is the very state that is the goal of the activity, be that a deep talk, a shared, group exploration of a key … Read More The Touch of Otherness
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye ‘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 place that had, for a long time, remained hidden from notice, even though we had passed it many times over the years. It was never hidden from sight… there are no … Read More The Feathered Seer – The bitter drop
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
‘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 not deceived by the seeming completeness of the ordinary world.’ Jalaluddin Rumi For the final ritual, the setting we chose was Arbor Low, the great stone…
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Alethea continues the story of her experiences throughout the Silent Eye’s Feathered Seer weekend. Here she speaks of the part played by the crystals we had chose to use as Seeds of Light…and issues her own invitation to be part of the magic… I didn’t know why I felt compelled to bring it, but I had a feeling I would never … Read More The Raven Crystal by Alethea Kehas
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye I’ve decided there is something Shamanic about suffering. The past few years have been challenging for me in a very specific way: whenever I have approached an important event, particularly one where I have to ‘perform’ well, in a dramatic or ritualistic way… I get slightly ill. This is not stage-fright. Apart from the odd deep breath, I just get on … Read More Unexpected Shaman (3) – The head in the jaws
by Steve Tanham
Silver linked we are But free beneath the open skies? Requires life’s death-bond ©Stephen Tanham.
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye During the Silent Eye’s annual workshop this April, we engaged in a discussion about fear. There was, I believe, a general agreement that the ultimate fear most people, if not all, harbor is the loss of the individual as a separate entity. We fear the obliteration of the self as we know it, because we learn to believe that there is … Read More The Re-Cycling of Life by Alethea Kehas
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength…” KJV Psalm 8:2 I passed the entire night in the hinterland between sleep and waking. It is that odd state where the body rests unresisting but the mind wanders down strange pathways, making connections between seemingly random things and finding answers to questions we did not know we needed … Read More The positives in negativity
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