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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 20, 2022 + #Silent Eye, #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Higher Mind, Mindfulness, Photography

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…

September 5, 2019 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Spirituality

Half-seeing

by Steve Tanham

Image: ©️Stephen Tanham The spiritual teacher and philosopher Krishnamurti once wrote: ‘Recognition dulls the mind’. When I first read it, years ago, I disagreed with his proposition. Surely, I reasoned, the act of recognition is a result of intelligence? We learn to recognise something as an act of shortening the ‘path-length’ of the brain’s logic, as it wrestles to categorise the seen thing. Take … Read More Half-seeing

November 29, 2016 + #Silenti

#Silenti – A Rose Beyond Violence, part two

by Steve Tanham

In part one, we examined Krishnamurti’s view that the individual could, with considerable effort, ‘unclip’ themselves from their society (though not broadcast it) and begin to separate out the pieces of their world in order to contemplate violence in a new way… This would begin the process of giving the objective world (what IS) some initial power over the egoic self, which had grown to … Read More #Silenti – A Rose Beyond Violence, part two

November 22, 2016 + #Silenti

#Silenti – A Rose Beyond Violence, part one

by Steve Tanham

Many people are in a state of shock following a series of electoral surprises that have rocked the political ‘liberal establishment’ on both sides of the Atlantic. Racist attacks are on the increase and long-respected ‘experts’ are frequently mocked. We are in danger of throwing away many of the principles of established civilisation. It’s easy to feel that these uncertain times contain the seeds of … Read More #Silenti – A Rose Beyond Violence, part one