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Category: Consciousness

March 28, 2019 + Biology and mysticism, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Life and Death, Life-sciences, Spirituality

The What of Life (2)

I want to like you, she thought, loudly. Please don’t spoil it by picking on science in a stupid, fluffy way… but don’t stop challenging, either… find the villains… She listened, intently, as he talked about the need to ‘see’ it all differently – Life, biological life, not separated from spirituality, but part of a bigger whole that encompassed them both… “There is … Read More The What of Life (2)

March 26, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Facebook, Faces of Shiva, Google, Higher Mind, Instagram, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Politics and Power, Powers of the Mind, Speaking truth to power, spiritual turning around, Spirituality, Tech, Technology

The Faces of Shiva (3) The Colour of Kin

by Steve Tanham

We began this series by looking at how, at certain times in the life of civilisations, a ‘perfect storm’ of events overtakes and paralyses the forces of commonly perceived ‘good’ and cohesion; a state established over a long period of time. We can consider that, in the case of America and the UK, this former consensus is in decline, and the shift of extreme … Read More The Faces of Shiva (3) The Colour of Kin

March 21, 2019 + Biology and mysticism, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Life and Death, Life-sciences, Spirituality

The What of Life (1)

by Steve Tanham

She was sitting in the front row – the car, for the first time in its life, had failed to start, and she set off late, as though projecting her future to this point – the front row of a group of about twenty people, a collective warmth -she had to admit – within which she was a complete stranger. They had sounded interesting. … Read More The What of Life (1)

March 19, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Facebook, Faces of Shiva, Google, Higher Mind, Instagram, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Politics and Power, Powers of the Mind, Speaking truth to power, spiritual turning around, Spirituality, Tech, Technology

The Faces of Shiva (2) Twisting Democracy

by Steve Tanham

The ‘perfect storm’ is a phrase that has entered our common vocabulary; that coming together of events to create a maelstrom of change and, often, terror – the terrorist attack of ‘9/11’ was a vivid example. These events change our world. We need a new word that describes the way we can look back at catastrophes and dissect them with great insight, yet … Read More The Faces of Shiva (2) Twisting Democracy

March 14, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mindfulness, Silent Eye School, Spirituality, Truth and Esotericism

Reality TV?

by Steve Tanham

It’s full of trivia and artificial things; things which have arisen in the name of entertainment. Everywhere you look there is a stream of mindless celebrities willing – some would say desperate – to eat tropical bugs to give themselves a chance of being famous, again. It reminds me of a sad film I once saw called “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”. There … Read More Reality TV?

March 12, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Politics and Power, Powers of the Mind, Speaking truth to power, spiritual turning around, Spirituality, Tech, Technology

The Faces of Shiva (1)

by Steve Tanham

Brahma creates the world. Vishnu sustains it so that it might achieve its potential. Shiva destroys it when its positive energy has been exhausted. The ‘world’ might be everything, or, for the initiate of old, it might just as well apply to anything created by the mind – large or small. In other words a system. It should make us think… The ancient … Read More The Faces of Shiva (1)

March 7, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

by Steve Tanham

In the preceding parts of this series (see below for full list) we have seen how Arthur M. Young, inventor and chief engineer of Bell’s early helicopter design, was convinced that it was possible to construct a ‘map of human meaning’, a graphic figure that would show the relationships between the laws of physics and the observer in a new way. In its experiments, … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (8) – final part

March 5, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Celtic Christianity, Christianity and modern mysticism, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Keys of Heaven

by Steve Tanham

The Keys of Heaven – The last journey of St Cedd It is the year AD 664. The coastal town of Whitby and its Abbey, under the control of the abbess who became St Hilda, are the setting for a Christian Synod – a court of doctrine established, on the face of it, to unify how priests cut their religious tonsure (gap in the hair) … Read More The Keys of Heaven

February 28, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (7)

by Steve Tanham

Now we have finished with our incursion into maths, and I know that will be welcome… Why have we been talking about such non-spiritual things as acceleration, velocity (speed) and distance? The answer is that these aspects of motion are at the heart of how we learn about the world, and how we interact with it. In learning, we forget how we learned and … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (7)

February 26, 2019 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Neolithic, Silent Eye School, Spirituality, Stone Circles

Long Meg

by Steve Tanham

Lady of the northern light Your stone too old to reach Offset with spirals on your flanks With children circled round your banks Give us the grace to see you teach And under stars approach your sight ➰ © Stephen Tanham Stephen Tanham is a director of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness, a not-for-profit organisation that helps people find a personal path to … Read More Long Meg

February 21, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Astrophysics, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (6)

by Steve Tanham

(Above: the original Bell 30 which established commercial helicopter technology, and was invented and developed by Arthur M. Young. Picture Wikipedia, public domain) In our last post, we looked at those most frightening objects: numbers which are squared and cubed. This exercise in cruelty was an attempt to remove the fear of these things in order to put them in a very special … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (6)

February 19, 2019 + #Poetry, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Spirituality

Azure Black Tango

by Steve Tanham

It’s a slow, slow tango An explosion of deepest bright A passion written in held-back movement A surrender to the night That follows… ➰ As, soft within the darkness The folds of black reverse And singing not heard in daylight Is loosed upon the universe In perfect union. ➰ © Stephen Tanham Stephen Tanham is a director of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness, a … Read More Azure Black Tango