Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Patterned in Dorset (4 – final) – Steve Tanham

Steve’s interpretation of one of the sites visited on the recent Silent Eye workshop in Dorset: He did not know how many were up there… Centurion Calogerus stared at the edge of the plateau above him. The vast hill-fort rose … Continue reading

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Patterned in Dorset (3) – Steve Tanham

It is said that a chapel dedicated to St Catherine once stood on this hill, looking down at the little town of Cerne Abbas, below. The original St Catherine was a pre-Christian figure about whom very little is known. She … Continue reading

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Winter with the Silent Eye…

Full Circle? – Finding the way home… Penrith, Cumbria Friday 7th – Sunday 9th December, 2018 Home. It is an evocative word. The images it conjures are different for each of us, yet few other words touch heart and mind … Continue reading

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Our next event…

Castles of the Mind Seahouses, Northumberland Friday 14th – Sunday 16th September 2018 Do we have ‘castles of the mind’? Traditionally, ancient castles were build where there was trouble… Do we have the equivalent in our minds and emotions? Have … Continue reading

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Lord of the Deep – Workshop April 2019

The Silent Eye’s Spring workshop for 2019 * The glories above were unamed. The word for that world beneath, unuttered. Source and time, unfettered, merged… From the mingling waves-of-water came mud and slime. Enshar and Kishar, twin halves of the … Continue reading

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Jewels in the Claw (8) – Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Seven. He – the man with the packing cases – picks up his empty tea cup and begins to walk towards the small table near the entrance door of the large room in which the mystery play … Continue reading

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Drawing a dark veil…

“Tell Augustine that he should be no means destroy the temples of the gods but rather the idols within those temples. Let him, after he has purified them with holy water, place altars and relics of the saints in them. … Continue reading

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You’ve got mail…

I thought it was too easy. A week of long, fraught hours, early starts and late finishes, coupled with some bug or other to sap my remaining energy, ended with technical glitches… and, just for good measure, the internet went … Continue reading

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Hill-of-the-Buried-Sun… Stuart France

* …It was, after all, rather disconcerting to be so accosted by a total stranger. “Does this count?” He demanded, ferociously, and pushed an admittedly intriguing photograph across the bar at me. “Does that count as what?” “One of them … Continue reading

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Jewels in the Claw (7) – Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Six. The tea cup is empty, but he continues to hold it – lost, happily, in his reveries on the edge of what was the stage, the royal court floor… He looks down at the cup and … Continue reading

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