Monthly Archives: April 2014

Mayhem and black coffee

It’s just at the moment when everything’s manic, The clock’s ticking fast and you’re starting to panic, Repeating your lines while the iron is steaming And even for god’s sake, when sleeping and dreaming… That things unexpected will creep up … Continue reading

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Finally….

We arrived in Glastonbury some five hours after we had left my home… for a hundred and twenty mile journey through an ancient landscape that isn’t bad going. It could have taken much longer… There is a sign that says … Continue reading

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Glaston Centre School of Learning and The Silent Eye

The Song in the Silence from the website of the Glastonbury Reception Centre   Our interactive talk last Thursday was entitled ‘Word, Vowel, Cycle, Harmony’ and delivered to us by the Silent Eye School of Consciousness as part of a … Continue reading

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A date for the diary

Thursday 5th June ‘The Song in the Silence’ with the  Silent Eye School of Consciousness The Enneagram: Its spiritual history  and modern use Gurdjieff brought the Enneagram to the West in 1912.  Since then its use has expanded beyond the Fourth … Continue reading

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The next few miles

We sat in a disused church with coffee and cake, recovering from the visit to Merlin’s Mound in Marlborough; the very same church where Cardinal Wolsey, the alter rex in the reign of Henry VIII, was ordained priest. Quite apart … Continue reading

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Final day – Kindle Countdown Deal, Giants Dance

“…The wind slams into the hillside, snatching breath. No torch, no flame could withstand the blast as the sun ascends to its zenith… Yet there were torches winding around the hill in the darkness in a spiral-like galaxy of flame. … Continue reading

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Fear of Indifference

Originally posted on Stepping Stones:
Last night my son was attacked by three strangers. Three strangers, fuelled by drugs and alcohol, intent on robbing him of the money they knew was in his cab; indifferent as to whether they took…

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Penultimate day, Kindle Countdown Deal – Giants Dance

“…“Most people think that statements like ‘the end of time’ refer to a point in the far distant future.” “Never realising that both the beginnings and the ends of time are here, now.” “Never realising that time is transcend-able.” “How … Continue reading

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Day 5 Kindle Countdown Deal

“I’ve just worked out the game of ‘fetch’.” “Oh, really?” “Yes really, the Ball of Power is… Love. And no matter how hard you try to get rid of it. It just keeps coming back to you.” The Ball of … Continue reading

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Sunset

The sun set tonight. It always does. A blaze of glory in the western sky, closing the day. Did you see the flames caress the moon as she rose? Or were you sleeping, dreaming of survival. It will not come … Continue reading

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