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Category: Mystery Schools

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 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 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 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 14, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (5)

by Steve Tanham

So far, we have examined how Arthur M. Young, inventor of the Bell helicopter, engineer and astrologer/philosopher, used his skills and insight into how our minds determine meaning. Within this, he began to discover that there was a graphical symmetry to this process; a set of shapes that explained many of the ancient symbols that mankind has come to view as sacred. These … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (5)

January 31, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrophysics, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

The rotating blade of meaning (3)

by Steve Tanham

For this series of posts to make sense – and be spiritually useful in our lives – it must challenge the way we see and therefore ascribe meaning to situations. That challenge must also apply to what we are, as well, since how we used to see, in innocence and wonder, lies, now, below the surface of our active adult consciousness, yet comprises its … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (3)

January 24, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, Stream of Consciousness

The rotating blade of meaning (2)

by Steve Tanham

In Part One, we looked at how Arthur M. Young, a brilliant engineer and inventor, was fascinated by the ‘act of knowing’, and determined that there were four stages to this central part of our consciousness. This can be illustrated by the following search for what might be termed a ‘geometry of meaning’ in the act of seeing something: There is a rectangular-shaped object … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (2)

January 17, 2019 + #Silenti, Astrology, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, Stream of Consciousness

The rotating blade of meaning (1)

by Steve Tanham

You have probably never heard of him. He was an engineer by training. He was the primary inventor and developer of the Bell helicopter, which made the promise of point to point flight a reality – though it had been discussed for centuries beforehand. This inventor, engineer and scientist was from an age when a few scientists could still challenge the overall approach of … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (1)

December 13, 2018 + #Silenti, Belief and Faith, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Journey of the hero, Mindfulness, mystery, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

The Modern Mysteries

by Steve Tanham

The ‘mysteries’ have been with mankind as long as we have existed. They are a collection of paths that take us inwards; restoring a sense of self deeper than that which reacts, and showing us that mankind is much more than a biological animal – though animals, and their focus on the ‘now’ have much to teach us, too. The reason these paths work … Read More The Modern Mysteries