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May 6, 2016 + Ancient Landscapes, esoteric psychology, Leaf and Flame workshop, Leaf and Flame workshop 2016, Mystery Schools, myths and spirituality, nature, Silent Eye School, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Finding Gawain – Act Five (final part)

by Steve Tanham

Finding Gawain – Act Five (final part) Deep within the Hart, the white hands reach for him… And, in the space between the single drop of blood leaving his skin and hitting the dry earth beneath the headsman’s block, the Bright One pulls his unresisting being out of time and changes him. Meeting no resistance and working within a the field of total trust, … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Five (final part)

May 5, 2016 + Ancient Landscapes, esoteric psychology, Leaf and Flame workshop, Leaf and Flame workshop 2016, Mystery Schools, myths and spirituality, nature, Silent Eye School, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Finding Gawain – Act Four

by Steve Tanham

(image: detail from ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch. Wikipedia Creative Commons) Finding Gawain – Act Four Reckoning… Within the forest there is a sense of reckoning. Plucked from Castille Diablo, the man who may once have been Gawain finds himself, again, with wild blood in his veins and standing in the middle of the Clearing of the Ways, facing the West from … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Four

May 4, 2016 + Ancient Landscapes, esoteric psychology, Leaf and Flame workshop, Leaf and Flame workshop 2016, Mystery Schools, myths and spirituality, nature, Silent Eye School, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part three

by Steve Tanham

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part three And then… And then, there is the sound of laughter rolling in from the hills…that host the hunt…that gives rise to the baying of the hounds…that draws exhausted, dirty, frozen and stinking Gawain from his muddy deathbed and flings him, like a mannequin on parade, to the gates of the Castille Diablo, and, via a startled but … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Three, part three

May 3, 2016 + Ancient Landscapes, esoteric psychology, Leaf and Flame workshop, Leaf and Flame workshop 2016, Mystery Schools, myths and spirituality, nature, Silent Eye School, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part two

by Steve Tanham

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part two By the time Gawain realises he had come back on himself, in a great circle of many day’s ride, he has lost all sense of time. The mighty oak – the largest he has ever seen, mocks him with the purple ribbon, tied around it, days ago, to mark his way. The ribbon was a gift from … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Three, part two

May 2, 2016 + Ancient Landscapes, esoteric psychology, Leaf and Flame workshop, Leaf and Flame workshop 2016, Mystery Schools, myths and spirituality, nature, Silent Eye School, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part one

by Steve Tanham

Finding Gawain – Act Three, part one In the sanctuary of the Castle of Camelot, he awakens; wet with sweat and wondering… Who is this ‘me’, he asks the cold air around him, remembering both the hapless Hunter Gawain and the Guardian of The Hart, the man who now belongs to the mind of the forest with the corporeality of its awakened White Knight. … Read More Finding Gawain – Act Three, part one