Silent Eye School – Page 5

January 9, 2022 + #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Lake District, landscapes, Photography, Places and Prose, Seasons of the year, Silent Eye School, Travel and Photography

That early January feeling…

by Steve Tanham

It was the Christmas tree outside the Booths supermarket that triggered the thoughts… Now pale against the bright January sun and the crisp cold, its icy beauty was somehow less than the real thing, a warming image of a Christmas now gone and packed up into the storage boxes under the eaves. Ahead of me, the Kendal district of Fellside climbed up in the … Read More That early January feeling…

January 6, 2022 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Politics and Power, Silent Eye School, Technology

Can’t Help Ourselves?

by Steve Tanham

Over the past three years, I’ve been closely following the ever-accelerating development of robots. In an age where the use of military drones for ‘state-backed’ assassinations is not unusual, and artificial intelligence is pervasively present in household devices, it pays to be aware of the various ways in which technology and the humanities are interacting. It is also instructive to see how darkly we … Read More Can’t Help Ourselves?

January 2, 2022 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Lake District, landscapes, Photographic techniques, Photography, Seasons of the year, Silent Eye School

Enduring Oak

by Steve Tanham

December 23, 2021 + #Silenti, Christianity and modern mysticism, Consciousness, Esoteric Meaning of Myth, Magic, meditation, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School

The nothing of tasted darkness

by Steve Tanham

“It’s a good time to meet nothing at the darkness cafe,” she said. It was many years ago and I had no idea what she was talking about… It was nearly Christmas and we were working on some of the initial Silent Eye lessons. Our topic of conversation was the power of the winter solstice to invoke new feelings, new experiences… and new ways … Read More The nothing of tasted darkness

December 7, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Mystical poetry, Photographic techniques, Photography, Poetry, Silent Eye School

The Quiet Places

by Steve Tanham

They live concealed within the ebb and flow of life recycled. That very nature is why they are so hard to find. The extraordinary hidden in plain sight… Their camouflage is the blindness caused by seeing what we saw, before, and not what is before us. A spell so strong, it takes our will to see it, differently. To reach into what seems to … Read More The Quiet Places

December 2, 2021 + #Silenti, Biology and mysticism, Consciousness, Harmony, nature, Psychology, Silent Eye School

The other side of colour (2 of 2)

by Steve Tanham

In part one, we travelled through a world of autumn’s dying colours to consider the continuing life beneath the earth – the world of the root. There is an inevitable sense of loss as the warm months fade away, leaving us with memories of pale blue skies and the perfume of the summer days… and the fullness of life. We are presented with a … Read More The other side of colour (2 of 2)

November 21, 2021 + #Silenti, Photographic techniques, Photography, Psychology, Silent Eye School, Whimsical Prose

The man, the bird and a sinister beach

by Steve Tanham

It’s not, of course. There is just a man, there is a bird and a mysteriously lit stretch of sand. But the man – dark coat, collar up, intent on his descent… is there a gun in that pocket? Surely, he has no reason to be going down to the beach in what is clearly an early winter evening lit by the moon hiding … Read More The man, the bird and a sinister beach

November 18, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Healing, Higher Mind, meditation, Mystery Schools, Photography, Psychology, Silent Eye School, Unconscious

The Size of Life

by Steve Tanham

What size is our life? It’s an odd question, but the kind of challenge that gets us thinking… Does our life have a ‘size’? We can measure it in years elapsed, of course, and that may have a lot to do with how we think we got ‘here’. But that continuity is entirely in our head, and, has little to do with the real … Read More The Size of Life

November 14, 2021 + #Poetry, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Politics and Power, Silent Eye School, Speaking truth to power

Within the mud, that narrow eye…

by Steve Tanham

He died when I was thirteen; but none of us knew his full story, which he refused to glorify. He lied about his age to join the Army. He survived WW1, including the Battle of the Somme, and enlisted again, for WW2. The fact that he was an Irish citizen gifted me an Irish passport, allowing me to have dual citizenship and remain a … Read More Within the mud, that narrow eye…

October 17, 2021 + #Silenti, Photographic techniques, Photography, Silent Eye School, Stream of Consciousness

The tree and the bay

by Steve Tanham

We walk from the car park in the centre of Grange-over-Sands to get to the ‘high corner’ that looks down to the park – the collie’s favourite grass area – and, beyond, the fabulous lone tree that shapes and defines the vastness of Morecambe bay, seen from the north, whereas most shots are from the south… And the bay was shining. Literally shining, in … Read More The tree and the bay

October 5, 2021 + #Poetry, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Mystery Schools, Photographic techniques, Photography, Silent Eye School

If I could comprehend the sky

by Steve Tanham

©Stephen Tanham 2021 Stephen Tanham is a Director of the Silent Eye, a journey through the forest of personality to the dawn of Being. http://www.thesilenteye.co.uk and http://www.suningemini.blog

September 28, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Higher Mind, Politics and Power, Silent Eye School, Speaking truth to power, Technology, Truth and Esotericism

How connected do we need to be?

by Steve Tanham

It’s a thought that began after I’d spent a full day writing in various forms: email correspondence, working on journals from our students in the Silent Eye, and preparing blogs for the week. Each of these involved an intense degree of ‘connection’ – via the internet, of course; that universal highway of data and opinion. It got me wondering at what point ordinary connectedness … Read More How connected do we need to be?