Category Archives: The Silent Eye

Looking back…

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The Silent Eye is busy gearing up for the annual April workshop. Every year we host a residential workshop weekend in Derbyshire and every year people come from across the globe to join us for an adventure of mind, heart … Continue reading →

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Distance….Stuart France

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* If we want a yardstick, for how far we have travelled from our Gods… We need only consider the once widespread custom of sacrificing a first-born child… It hardly seems credible from this vantage, irrespective of its counter productivity … Continue reading →

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Dwellers in Towers – Steve Tanham

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Sue Vincent

A recent trip to the beautiful Northumbrian coast threw up a chance visit to Preston Tower, one of a type known as a ‘Pele Tower’ – a fortified place of refuge for well-to-do families, built during the times of the … Continue reading →

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Honouring Sanctity… Stuart France

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* And so, the mighty bend low before the Saint? The misery of his meagre apparel, the antithesis of all they strive for. And yet, is there not something of power in renunciation? What is it that moves behind those … Continue reading →

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Cold comfort

Posted on February 25, 2018 by Sue Vincent

The bedroom was seriously cold… I had left the window open all day and all night and the temperature has struggled to get above freezing lately. I smiled… because that is exactly how I like it. I don’t care for … Continue reading →

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Of One Mind? – Steve Tanham

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Sue Vincent

To be of ‘one mind’: it’s an expression we don’t hear a lot of, nowadays, though it remains available to us in the language. Historically, it was used to describe an intensity of opinion, or – even stronger – belief, … Continue reading →

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Hypnotised chickens…

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Sue Vincent

Quite why I have to be up at ridiculous o’clock, I don’t know. Well, I probably do, but even for me it is a bit early in the day to start calling myself an idiot. I wouldn’t mind if I’d … Continue reading →

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… a thousand words?

Posted on February 18, 2018 by Sue Vincent

I was reading an article that tells how much a picture can attract our attention. The inclusion of a single image can increase the likelihood of someone stopping to read an article, sharing it or, indeed, making it go viral. … Continue reading →

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Identified Flying Object – Steve Tanham

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Sue Vincent

One of the key understandings in mystical thought is the idea of identity. Words morph their meaning over time, and identity is a classic case. We might think of the police knowing the ‘identity’ of a person they want to … Continue reading →

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Going viral …

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Sue Vincent

When I was small and faced with a plate piled with the over-boiled cabbage I detested, my grandmother always told me to eat it first… get rid of it… so I could enjoy the rest of the meal… and to … Continue reading →

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