by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye ‘If you have not lived through something it is not true’ Kabir The fourth ritual took us to a place of fear. Within the local landscape there is a high place that had, for a long time, remained hidden from notice, even though we had passed it many times over the years. It was never hidden from sight… there are no … Read More The Feathered Seer – The bitter drop
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
‘The hidden world has its clouds and rain, but of a different kind. Its sky and sunshine are of a different kind. This is made apparent to those not deceived by the seeming completeness of the ordinary world.’ Jalaluddin Rumi For the final ritual, the setting we chose was Arbor Low, the great stone…
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Alethea continues the story of her experiences throughout the Silent Eye’s Feathered Seer weekend. Here she speaks of the part played by the crystals we had chose to use as Seeds of Light…and issues her own invitation to be part of the magic… I didn’t know why I felt compelled to bring it, but I had a feeling I would never … Read More The Raven Crystal by Alethea Kehas
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye I’ve decided there is something Shamanic about suffering. The past few years have been challenging for me in a very specific way: whenever I have approached an important event, particularly one where I have to ‘perform’ well, in a dramatic or ritualistic way… I get slightly ill. This is not stage-fright. Apart from the odd deep breath, I just get on … Read More Unexpected Shaman (3) – The head in the jaws
by Steve Tanham
Silver linked we are But free beneath the open skies? Requires life’s death-bond ©Stephen Tanham.
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye During the Silent Eye’s annual workshop this April, we engaged in a discussion about fear. There was, I believe, a general agreement that the ultimate fear most people, if not all, harbor is the loss of the individual as a separate entity. We fear the obliteration of the self as we know it, because we learn to believe that there is … Read More The Re-Cycling of Life by Alethea Kehas
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength…” KJV Psalm 8:2 I passed the entire night in the hinterland between sleep and waking. It is that odd state where the body rests unresisting but the mind wanders down strange pathways, making connections between seemingly random things and finding answers to questions we did not know we needed … Read More The positives in negativity
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye ‘In former times the soul was feathered all over’ Plato The third ritual of the workshop weekend was named Deadshaw Sick after the strip of land that divides the lands of the living from the lands of the dead at Barbrook. On one side of the stream are the hut circles that mark the place of a settlement, on the other, … Read More The Feathered Seer – Divining meaning
by Steve Tanham
The Silent Eye Jerome, my newly-found Mayan Shaman friend, was born in Belize, and had travelled before settling, for the present, in Yucatan, Mexico. I had been surprised at how vividly alive the Mayan culture was in this part of Central America. It was not just a done-for-tourists thing, it was deeply real; an identity with a gentle, spiritual and creative race, even down … Read More Unexpected Shaman (2) – two journeys to Chichen Itza
by Steve Tanham
Jerome (not his real name, but those are his hands) had been teaching us some elementary Spanish. We had been advised that the lesson was half an hour later than billed, but it had started on time. By the time we got there, the other two students were well ensconced in the picture cards that matched local Mexican animals with their Spanish names. I … Read More Unexpected Shaman (1)
by Steve Tanham
Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
Sunlight on the River(copyright 123rf.com) …we may have to go back a little before we can begin. Say two years? All the way back to the “River of the Sun“ in 2015, and the long-awaited “next post”, often promised but always failing to materialise. I suppose the key to its desire for immediate attention, under the (apparently) unrelated title…
Sun in Gemini 
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