Tag Archives: esoteric psychology

Half-seeing ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on September 5, 2019 by Sue Vincent

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 … Continue reading →

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Land of the Heart ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

This is a self-help exercise I developed recently. I call it ‘Land of the Heart’ It’s an exercise that involves the surrender of the small self that feels so much pain and anguish, especially at a time of national division, … Continue reading →

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Primal Screen~Steve Tanham

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Somewhere in the frontal cortex of our brains there’s a very special junction – a place where we leaned to do something truly different with our minds… Let’s call it the Primal Screen… Our spines can be considered the highway … Continue reading →

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Only a Horse and a Sword ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Sue Vincent

We become habitual in our thinking. It’s a good idea (and fun) to play little games with our mind to help us look at things differently. One of these is to look at things in a ‘zero-sum’ way: that is, … Continue reading →

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The Creature on the Beach Beyond Thought ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It lay there, head in the sky, gazing at the radiance. Its tail was still in the ocean of thought, the gentle waves urging it back where it belonged… The gaps in the waves had always been there; they were … Continue reading →

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Tower… Stuart France

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* To complete our pentagrams we returned to our core principles and considered the shadow. * The setting was not the swiftly flowing Spey but a quitely progressing brook which arced in a crescent around the space in which we … Continue reading →

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‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Circle… Stuart France

Posted on July 10, 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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Three Days of the Oyster-Catcher (Part 6) Beyond the Blasted Heath ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Sue Vincent

And then the worlds around us literally fell away… We were all tired; it had been a wonderful day, and the weather had been kind – which is not always assured in Scotland… The brain tends to switch off, which … Continue reading →