by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Manuel is speaking, but he’s wrong… This thought hits home as my unseen flight ends with a trip over the ledge that marks the boundary of a small incline. Ahead of me, the tourists turn and politely ignore the unhurt figure in the dust, though others are laughing. What was it that Jerome had said? ‘Shamanic methods are ultimately kind…’ The … Read More Unexpected Shaman (6) – The Ball in your Court
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Reblogged fromAlethea Kehas Since my visit to the Nest, I have felt haunted. There is a restlessness inside of me; one which my rational mind has tried to reason with. If you were meant to be there, you’d be there. You have work to do here, it tells me. The work often seems illusive as I try to focus past the longing and stay in … Read More The Raven Spirit by Alethea Kehas
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
“Their Danses Which They Use at Their High Feasts”, Theodor de Bry, Engraving The elders gather; to the stones; all that remain of the Raven Clan. The Shaman, bearing the Mother’s heartbeat, draws to the centre of the assembly; there to be joined by the Spinner, and the Weaver of Lore. The Weaver kneels, offering a reverent hand skyward,…
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye The count had reached forty steps by the time the newfound realised what was happening. Below him, the rising air from the plateau smelled, newly, of summer grasses and deeply-perfumed flowers. The sun, near vertical overhead, beat down with a ferocity that touched skin which seemed naked; and yet fed, unburnt, from the sky-borne radiance. It was summer’s height and yet, at the … Read More Unexpected Shaman (5) – Life and Death on Kukulcan
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
This post is based on the outline of an exploration session presented at The Silent Eye (a modern mystery school) “Leaf and Flame: the Foliate Man” weekend in 2016. Whilst I have attempted to retain some of the flavour, and changes in direction, of the actual talk, the interactive elements of the exploration are absent, and since most of…
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on dhamma footsteps:
POSTCARD #265: Chiang Mai: I’d decided to use this image for the header thinking the way I cope with my headache is an improvised thing, much like the way this traffic sign has been bent back into shape after something has crashed into it – then as I write this I’m distracted by wind chimes from the balcony of…
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Really? A giant, black, Jaguar materialised from the south face of the Chichen Itza pyramid and thundered across the ground to devour you? On one level, it’s a preposterous thing to write; on another, it’s the heart of the matter. “If you can’t let go,” Jerome had said, under the quiet shadows of the one silent place in the hotel grounds, … Read More Unexpected Shaman (4) – In the Mouth of the Jaguar
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
Many foxes…Copyright: MJ Heritage @ Mr Fox Fast forward a year to the “Leaf and Flame: the Foliate Man” weekend. The directors of the Silent Eye (a modern mystery school), not really knowing what they might be letting themselves in for, honoured me with a request to present one of the exploration sessions. These punctuate the weekend, expanding on…
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
There’s something wrong with the two-legs. She’s not broken exactly, but she’s not working right. I keep having to remind her about impotant things… like my dinner. ‘Off colour’ she calls it… I thought that only happened to the fish when they go weird, but no. This time she’s right…she is a funny colour. Normally my…
by Steve Tanham
In every mystical gathering, of whatever nature, there comes that moment when a correctly constructed ‘vessel’ is taken over – however fleetingly – by a sense of ‘otherness’. Experience teaches us that this is actually paradoxical. What is ‘taking over’ is the very state that is the goal of the activity, be that a deep talk, a shared, group exploration of a key … Read More The Touch of Otherness
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