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Category: Silent Eye School

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 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 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)

February 12, 2019 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Mystical poetry, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Summer does not come…

by Steve Tanham

Summer does not come at once Its grip on that which gives it birth Lingers… In glimpse and taste and smell With grind and crunch on dale and fell From frozen earth to green stalk’s birth It rises. ⦿ And in that rising is our eye Serene… Which sees the whole but touches part A joining of the mind and heart And knows in … Read More Summer does not come…

February 7, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Powers of the Mind, Silent Eye School, Spirituality, Technology

The rotating blade of meaning (4)

by Steve Tanham

Everything is in motion… Arthur M. Young and Isaac Newton both knew that, but in different ages and different ways. Let’s take a slight detour into some basic ways of looking at one of our fundamentals – the way things move. Our search for Arthur M. Young’s ‘geometry of meaning’ will be enhanced if we can enrich our vocabulary… Someone in the age of … Read More The rotating blade of meaning (4)

January 29, 2019 + Consciousness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Travel, Travel and Photography

Sound of the Primeval

by Steve Tanham

The grey dawn was breaking around the huge ship. It’s not a boat, Captain Thassos had explained. A ship is much bigger than a boat… you can fit several boats into a ship. Later on in the cruise he would provide a wonderful illustration of this. For now we were about to have an experience of a lifetime, and it was ironic that the … Read More Sound of the Primeval

January 22, 2019 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Ancient Sacred Sites, Australia, Silent Eye School, Soul, Spirituality

The Wolf and the Setting Sun

by Steve Tanham

Like knowing thought inclined to action Creates ‘me’ when the job is done So must I trust the light That pulls me where the photos are To stand beneath the ancient wolf And howl at the setting sun ©Stephen Tanham

January 10, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Krishnamurti, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Becoming Nothing

by Steve Tanham

‘Become Nothing’ He didn’t use those exact words but that was the meaning of what he wrote. The words were suddenly there in the moment in my consciousness… and I knew they were right. I had been reading a piece by Krishamurti – that fearless enemy of dogma, and proponent of the individual’s right to find their own spiritual path. It does involve a … Read More Becoming Nothing