Tag Archives: Silent Eye School

Wisdom Breathes Out? ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

We seem to be wrestling with the recognition that an age is coming to an end, and that strange forms are filling the world with casual madness, behaving as though nothing hangs over, us; no piper calling for the line … Continue reading →

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Living knowledge

Posted on February 4, 2020 by

“Crepuscular!” He was getting desperate now, having exhausted his list of the most obscure words. His face fell as I gave him the definition. He tried another and scowled… “How do you do that?” “I read.” The words he dangled … Continue reading →

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The Whirlpool ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on October 10, 2019 by

Underlying image by Gordon Johnson on Pixabay It begins with a feeling… A feeling that something has fallen: like a vital bridge being destroyed. As it develops, you sense the landscape being stretched, allowing forms of life alien to your … Continue reading →

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Land of the Heart ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on August 29, 2019 by

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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The Creature on the Beach Beyond Thought ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

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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Three Days of the Oyster-Catcher (Part 6) Beyond the Blasted Heath ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on July 9, 2019 by

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 →

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The Golden Eye of Fiveness (3) Steve Tanham

Posted on June 11, 2019 by

Figure One – the pentagram, emerging at the end of our search for perfect ‘fiveness’. “It is highly dishonourable for a Reasonable Soul to live in so Divinely built a Mansion as the Body she resides in, altogether unacquainted with … Continue reading →

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The Bedouin ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on May 23, 2019 by

Image by Cuyahoga from Pixabay It is said we learn most from those we would wish to emulate. Not copy, perhaps, but take from them an essence of thought, of action. If we are younger, of style, even… There must … Continue reading →

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Pen of the oyster-catcher ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on April 19, 2019 by

Portmahomack, a fishing village on the north shore of one of the fingers of land that jut out into the North Sea, thirty or so miles north of Inverness. There is something perfect about it. Somewhere close, our collie dog, … Continue reading →

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The Light between the Railway Carriages ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

The light between the railway carriages… It was one of the best analogies I ever had given to me; yet it took me years to grasp its fullness. Like any true seed of ‘spiritual’ insight, it was strong enough to … Continue reading →

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