Consciousness – Page 41

January 11, 2018 + #Silenti, Ancient Egypt, Consciousness, Initiation, Life and Death, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School

Being here…

by Steve Tanham

We were lined up against a stone wall – a very old stone wall. Forty ‘mystical pilgrims’ stood in the intense humidity of the entrance chamber to the Great Pyramid, dressed in simple robes; robes that had been used earlier in the day for a ritual baptism in the ancient inland waters of Lake Moeris. Lake Moeris is linked to the water-based initiations of … Read More Being here…

January 9, 2018 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Silent Eye School

The January Tree

by Steve Tanham

The January Tree — Stripped bare of Summer meaning Leaving only wood to sway I wait, endure, while others pass Along this rocky way ➰ Your feet are fast and fluid While mine are mired in earth Your thoughts too fast to capture While mine are simpler truth ➰ Come spring I will awaken Then will you stop again? To see the youngest … Read More The January Tree

December 9, 2017 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, Silent Eye School, Silent Eye Workshops

Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (3)

by Steve Tanham

A bastard’s bastard, he would never know that he carried the blood of the Templars in his veins. That was only speculated after his death; being proved, later, by the researcher who followed his short life. He did it because he was a runner… Hardship was the key; hardship and the words his cruel companions at the parish school carved on his leg with … Read More Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (3)

December 7, 2017 + Consciousness, Silent Eye School, Silent Eye Workshops

Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (2)

by Steve Tanham

Imagine a tiny village, just a few miles from a major Derbyshire town, yet unknown to most people passing by on the busy road between Bakewell and Matlock. The village contains an ancient mound of boulders of millstone grit layered on the underlying limestone base – typical of this part of the White Peak. Aside from its geology, the intricate and serpentine rocks … Read More Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (2)

December 5, 2017 + Consciousness, Silent Eye School, Silent Eye Workshops

Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (1)

by Steve Tanham

It began at Baecca’s Well… Sue and Stuart have run many successful weekends in the course of the Silent Eye’s short history, but the start-point for this one had a rather mundane location, given the ancient and exotic hill-forts for which they are best known. “We’ll meet at the far end of the Recreation Ground on the Matlock road just out of the centre … Read More Riddles of the Night – Templar Shadows (1)

November 28, 2017 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystical poetry, Silent Eye School

On Golden Decks

by Steve Tanham

On sweet golden wood decked in yellow Is my love of ochre from you? A fantasy glimpsed in old posters A place where poor children are few ⦿ From a farther realm now you are calling Bright image, uncharted, at sea Your home somewhere richer and darker with meaning Not timeless nor faded but free ⦿ Let me sail down to Rio within you … Read More On Golden Decks

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November 23, 2017 + #SE18Characters, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Jewel in the Claw, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Silent Eye Workshops, Spirituality, The Jewel in the Claw, Understanding Fear

She of the Voice

by Steve Tanham

“Ra-bi-ya, Ra-bi-ya…” As she surveys the black and white squares of the court before her, the song echoes in her head, a beloved memory of time spent, long ago, with her mother, playing their hiding game among the orange groves in the gardens of the royal home. ‘She of the voice, the inner voice,’ had been the way they referred to her, later in … Read More She of the Voice

October 12, 2017 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

A game of three halves (3 of 3)

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Two So, this one day, considered in all its facets, resolves itself into a journey, a destination and an arrival – an arrival at a meeting with a French relative we have never met, and whose unlikely presence, here in the north-west corner of Wales, completes a cycle of mystery and loss lasting ninety-three years… As we journey along the spine … Read More A game of three halves (3 of 3)

October 10, 2017 + #Silenti, Anglesey, Consciousness, landscapes

A game of three halves… (2)

by Steve Tanham

It is, still, all of it, only one day… Though now the winds that buffeted the bed-and-breakfast farmhouse have abated. I look at my watch. We have two hours to go before we need to leave to drive across Anglesey to meet a young woman named Juliette, who holds the key to this entire story. She will be waiting, at noon, by the red … Read More A game of three halves… (2)

September 28, 2017 + Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, Silent Eye School

Women in the Mist (4)

by Steve Tanham

(Continued from Part three on Sun in Gemini) The spiritual, stripped of the trappings of religion, is a search for the real. We may protest that we already live lives that are real. It is one of the hardest and yet most profound jobs of a magical or mystical school, such as the Silent Eye, to show, as gently as possible, that this is … Read More Women in the Mist (4)

September 26, 2017 + Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, Silent Eye School

Women in the Mist (3)

by Steve Tanham

(Continued from Part two on Sun in Gemini) “There’s nothing else in Midmar, so just look for the church.” Allan’s words, given some time prior, echoed in our heads. We were lost… and he was nowhere to be seen. Its a cat problem, in the sense of herding them, as Allan said (and I agreed), during the weekend… It’s also a problem of … Read More Women in the Mist (3)

September 21, 2017 + Ancient Sacred Sites, Consciousness, Silent Eye School

Women in the Mist (2)

by Steve Tanham

(Continued from Part One on Sun in Gemini) The rain has abated… for now. After the morning of the second day, we return to East Aquorthies to have more revealed to us by our guide, Allan. The morning had contained a visit to another stone circle which had drained and saddened us all. The details will be written up in the next post … Read More Women in the Mist (2)