Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 5) – Stone in the Sky ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

A Pictish stone so large, it needs its own ‘hangar’. You can’t miss Sueno’s stone. It sits on its own plateau, just off the old main road between Findhorn and Forres; now bypassed. You see its ‘hangar’ first, then realise … Continue reading →

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig… Stuart France

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element. * In the first we would consider the element in … Continue reading →

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn… Stuart France

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* With almost prescient clarity we commenced our summer workshop in a graveyard! * Except, not quite, for before we entered the graveyard, we stood by the swiftly flowing waters of the river Spey and entered into a guided meditation. … Continue reading →

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The Dream Tree… Stuart France

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* The pillow resembles an open book Its leaves shall shadow my dreams As tree-leaf dapples sunlight. * Continue reading at Stuart France

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Cost of everything… Stuart France

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* “They want Messiahs who walk on water not men and women who appreciate the beauty in not being able to.” * Count-Jack-Black Reblogged from Stuart France

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 4) – Sea and Stone ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I didn’t want to leave Burghead, not even for Findhorn; a place I’d wanted to visit for a long time. Burghead had filled me (many of us, I think) with a sense of ancient mystery and that dreadful knowledge that … Continue reading →

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Three days of the Oyster-catcher (Part 3) – A Pictish Headland ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The Moray Firth is vast, wild and beautiful. Examined on a map it resembles a child’s geometry exercise in triangles, with the coast between its ‘origin’ at Inverness and far-away Fraserburgh being a virtually flat west-east baseline. From Fraserburgh the … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage: Seeing beyond fear ~ A weekend with the Silent Eye

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Sue Vincent

As the June workshop in Scotland draws to a close, why not consider joining us in September for a weekend in the ancient landscape of stones, circles and strange places? Rites of Passage: Seeing beyond fear A weekend with the … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Deep, Into the Deep part 2 ~Willow Willers

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Willow continues sharing her experiences at the Lord of the Deep weekend… Urshanabi leads Gilgamesh to the Deep Underworld. And so for nine hours Gilgamesh has to out run the sun. And he does out run the sun, though how … Continue reading →

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Reflections

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Sue Vincent

‘Know thyself’… Pausanius tells us it was inscribed in the court before the temple of Apollo at Delphi. We are given to understand it is associated too with the Inner Temples in ancient Egypt. It is one of the first … Continue reading →