Tag Archives: initiation

A Light In Your Darkness ~ Jan Malique

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from strangegoingsonintheshed: Dhivakaran S · urappakam at Pexels I wasn’t planning to make this my last post for 2019, but it appears His Nibs (Anubis) and Heru-ur (Horus the Elder) have other ideas. The time has come for a … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage: Last rites III

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Sue Vincent

*** We walked on, the mood had changed with the meditation; all of us quietly aware that there was to be something more. The broad, well-trodden path continued to wind its way through the valley, but we took instead the … Continue reading →

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Rites of Passage: Last rites II

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Sue Vincent

*** We began our walk by once again drawing a sphere of Light around our party. As we walked along Cressbrook Dale, we were careful not to colour any impressions our companions might pick up about the place. We shared … Continue reading →

Fear and Love in the High Peak – part one ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It’s not the best of photo resolutions, but the above image says it all. Briony saluting the Derbyshire landscape in her own way at the end of three days of the Silent Eye’s Tideswell-based workshop: Sue and Stuart’s creation; and … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Rites of Passage: Seeing beyond fear

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Sue Vincent

A weekend with the Silent Eye Derbyshire, UK Friday 13th – Sunday 15th September 2019 We are all afraid of something. There are the fears of the everyday world, from arachnophobia to a fear of the dark, and the deeper … Continue reading →

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The Tyrant of Uruk…

Posted on July 15, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* “The Eternal City of Uruk… See how its ramparts gleam like copper in the sun… Climb the ancient staircases up stone more ancient than mind… Approach the Temple of Eanna… Sacred precinct of the Goddess Ishtar… Her priestesses stand … Continue reading →

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Being here – Steve Tanham

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Sue Vincent

We were lined up against a stone wall – a very old stone wall. Forty ‘mystical pilgrims’ stood in the intense humidity of the entrance chamber to the Great Pyramid, dressed in simple robes; robes that had been used earlier … Continue reading →