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Category: Spirituality

December 17, 2023 + #iphonephotography, #Phoetry, #Poetry, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, nature, Photography, Spirituality

Sodden

by Steve Tanham

Sodden, like a soldier’s backpack hauled across the final freezing mile. The face of one determined To outlive, within an icy smile. A green chord, stroked arpeggio Denied its solemn tone But knowing minor E contains The fire in flint and spark in stone. The forest, bright with inner flame Disguised in mud and weeping bark Waits, silent, dripping, lost in time A holding … Read More Sodden

June 29, 2023 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Lake District, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Water-Circle+Cross (5-End) Gummer’s How

by Steve Tanham

There is always a poignancy about meeting up on the final day of one of the Silent Eye weekends. So much has been shared that it seems impossible that the beginning was only two days before. Everyone arrives ready to depart at the end of the morning, or – if they have the luxury of another hour or two – at the end of … Read More Water-Circle+Cross (5-End) Gummer’s How

June 22, 2023 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Ancient Landscapes, Consciousness, Lake District, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Water-Circle+Cross (5) The Wray home?

by Steve Tanham

Wray Castle is an imposing neo-gothic building on the north-western shores of Lake Windermere. It’s not a real castle, but looks very much like one, and was crafted according to authentic historical plans. It was built in 1840 for a retired surgeon from Liverpool, James Dawson, who also commissioned Wray Church on the same estate. He used his wealthy wife’s fortune to create it, … Read More Water-Circle+Cross (5) The Wray home?

October 27, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, Esoteric Meaning of Myth, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind – mover of the Soul (4) Where is the World?

by Steve Tanham

Where is the world? Is this a fair question to ask ourselves or some pointless intellectual game? A friend sent me a beautiful piece of writing, created by a Kabbalist teacher. The Kabbalah is a system I’m very familiar with, though the Silent Eye uses the enneagram as a map of egoic and spiritual consciousness, rather than the Tree of Life used by the … Read More Mind – mover of the Soul (4) Where is the World?

October 20, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind – mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

by Steve Tanham

One of the most important things we do with our minds is to learn, yet we seldom ask: how do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things, and is it a single process? How do we learn things? We have to be careful to define what we mean by learning. The child or young student gains praise … Read More Mind – mover of the Soul (3) Seeing Pi and finding your birthday…

October 13, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind: mover of the Soul (2)

by Steve Tanham

The consideration of mind is a journey, not a concept. There’s nothing theoretical about the degree to which we believe we are ‘in-here’ in our body. That statement has two parts: the sense of us -the observer, being contained inside something, and the inherent idea of ‘self’ in the status of the observer. To the mind, the observer self-evidently is… The place where she/he … Read More Mind: mover of the Soul (2)

October 6, 2022 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, meditation, Metanoia, Mindfulness, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

Mind: mover of the Soul (1)

by Steve Tanham

Science has its definitions of what the mind is, yet, for most of us, we don’t even consider the question; driven by the fact that what would do the ‘considering’ is the mind itself. It’s like one of those logical traps, like why it’s a bad idea to saw off the branch of the overgrown apple tree that you’re sitting on… Can the mind … Read More Mind: mover of the Soul (1)

February 10, 2022 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Love, Photography, Silent Eye School, Spirit, Spirituality

Being being…

by Steve Tanham

I usually write it with a capital: Being. But strictly it is just another noun, so it’s fine as simply being. Except it’s not…because that devalues its importance. Being is the word. Being is the gold ‘hidden in plain sight’ of the alchemists.. They were searchers for the inner nature of Nature. Some of them found it but had to create a language of … Read More Being being…

July 1, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Gurdjieff, Higher Mind, Silent Eye School, soul in body, Spirituality

Intention chooses Heaven (2)

by Steve Tanham

In Part One, we looked at the personal development of equanimity as an important step in attaining an inner state that allows room for new, and deeper, aspects of consciousness. Equanimity takes us into a ‘new space’ within ourselves. We are aware of the world and its ups and downs, but we don’t react to in the way we used to. Instead, we have … Read More Intention chooses Heaven (2)

June 17, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Healing, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Art of Healing (part two)

by Steve Tanham

“The healer must know themselves to be connected to something bigger, something vast in its power to help us… something entirely whole. The healer is not the source of the power, simply its conduit.” Who wrote it is lost in the past. For me, it expressed the entire art of healing; the idea that suffering is ‘smaller’ than the power of wholeness. The main … Read More The Art of Healing (part two)

June 10, 2021 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Healing, Silent Eye School, Spirituality

The Art of Healing (part one)

by Steve Tanham

“Healing is about restoring the person’s power to heal themselves.” The old lady who said it was called Jean. Beloved of all us us at the Roiscrucian group in Manchester, she was was a venerated outlier from a previous age; an age in which the sheer magic of mystical development and communion was not taken for granted, and was a path that required work… … Read More The Art of Healing (part one)

August 18, 2020 + #Silenti, esoteric psychology, Magic, Mystery Schools, Powers of the Mind, Silent Eye School, Silent Eye Workshops, spiritual turning around, Spirituality

My Own Trumpet

by Steve Tanham

I’m not very good, nor comfortable, blowing my own trumpet… Writers on the internet know this feeling well: we are urged to promote our presence, yet our inner nature knows what sort of people talk about themselves all the time… This is particularly true if your main activity is of a teaching nature within a spiritual discipline. The road to understanding the ego – … Read More My Own Trumpet