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Category: Consciousness

I don’t know about you, but I find the week comforting… Over the years, I’ve built up a pattern of working through things that I need to do, in order to get to the things I regard as ‘me-time’. There is the stuff of keeping an orderly house. Then the dog has to be walked… and time to visit my mother in her care … Read More What if the week didn’t exist? – Part 1

November 17, 2022 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Psychology, Silent Eye School

Representing the Invisible

by Steve Tanham

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 marble sculpture ‘Pietà’, in St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. To stand before the Pieta sculpture is to be drawn into the emotion of Christ’s mother, holding the crucified body of her son, Jesus Christ. … Read More Representing the Invisible

November 13, 2022 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, English Lake District, Photographic techniques, Photography

The shifting beach…

by Steve Tanham

What I love about the beaches around Morecambe Bay is the way you can go back a day later and find them completely changed. Heysham Beach, near Morecambe, is a wonderful example. In autumn, the tides get stronger, and the landscape upon which you walk – often a liminal zone between rock and sand – changes with each tide. Which is good news for … Read More The shifting beach…

November 10, 2022 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, guided mystical walks, Higher Mind, Lake District, Mystery Schools

Beyond the Winter

by Steve Tanham

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 spring – in the form of the Silent Eye’s May workshop. The idea is one thing, the success lies in giving it form and substance…and making sure that everyone there feels a creative part … Read More Beyond the Winter

November 6, 2022 + #Silenti, Consciousness, landscapes, Photographic techniques, Photography, Scotland

Long Tau Cross

by Steve Tanham

I just love it when you’re looking to capture something artistic, as opposed to just landscape, and nature conspires to assist… There’s a long beach walk that links Rosemarkie, on the Black Isle, north of Inverness, with the lighthouse at Chanonry Point. Halfway along, the sun became so bright that its autumnal ‘long flat’ rays began to create a glare in my side vision. … Read More Long Tau Cross

November 3, 2022 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, landscapes, Photographic techniques, Photography

Homage to Hopper by roadlight

by Steve Tanham

One of my favourite artists is the American Edward Hopper. His ‘Nighthawks’ is a study in late-night loneliness, set in a bar/diner whose light is a stark and emotional contrast to the isolating darkness outside. He also painted isolated and often abandoned scenes, such as outdated petrol (gas) stations; again with a very ‘still’ emotional fascination. The figures within the bar still have barriers: … Read More Homage to Hopper by roadlight

October 27, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, Esoteric Meaning of Myth, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind – mover of the Soul (4) Where is the World?

by Steve Tanham

Where is the world? Is this a fair question to ask ourselves or some pointless intellectual game? A friend sent me a beautiful piece of writing, created by a Kabbalist teacher. The Kabbalah is a system I’m very familiar with, though the Silent Eye uses the enneagram as a map of egoic and spiritual consciousness, rather than the Tree of Life used by the … Read More Mind – mover of the Soul (4) Where is the World?

October 25, 2022 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystical poetry, Photography, Seasons of the year

The Human Eye in Winter

by Steve Tanham

Within the blood of life the love is colour: The lime-shine kiss of spring’s new fingers The rising sun, the heart of gold The mellow blaze as autumn lingers. And listens to the human eye in winter —- Dark path the seeming death that follows fall Pale exile when the tints have turned to bone A zero-state as life, slow-frozen, bares its truth: That … Read More The Human Eye in Winter

October 20, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind – mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

by Steve Tanham

One of the most important things we do with our minds is to learn, yet we seldom ask: how do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things? We have to be careful to define what we mean by learning. The child or young student gains praise … Read More Mind – mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

October 20, 2022 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mindfulness, Photography

Mind – Mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

by Steve Tanham

One of the most important things we do with our minds is to learn, yet we seldom ask: how do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things? We have to be careful to define what we mean by learning. The child or young student gains praise … Read More Mind – Mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

October 18, 2022 + #Humour, #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, English Lake District, Lake District, Photographic techniques, Photography, Travel and people

Cartmel, anarchy and the perfect morning…

by Steve Tanham

The Cumbrian village of Cartmel is most famous for its racecourse, but it is difficult to find any part of it that is not also beautiful or at least interesting. There are also examples here of innovative responses to hard times… Something we all need to take note of. Cartmel lies two miles northwest of Grange-over-Sands, on the northern edge of Morecambe Bay, just … Read More Cartmel, anarchy and the perfect morning…

October 13, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind: mover of the Soul (2)

by Steve Tanham

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 parts: the sense of us -the observer, being contained inside something, and the inherent idea of ‘self’ in the status of the observer. To the mind, the observer self-evidently is… The place where she/he … Read More Mind: mover of the Soul (2)