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Tag Archives: Whitby Abbey
Discovering Albion – day 9: Saints and Snakestones
We walked further up the cliff towards the fourteenth century ‘cross’ that rises from its steps in front of the gatehouse. The Abbey, of course, was closed by the time we got there…if, indeed, it had been open at all … Continue reading
Posted in adventure, Photography, scotland road trip, travel
Tagged Bede, bonfire night, fossils, snakestones, St Aidan, St Hilda, Whitby Abbey
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Keys of Heaven (6): the greater force ~ Steve Tanham
The greater force… What did they know of it! Anyone could see it in the fall of boulders in the mountains; in the crashing of the seas on the rocks, in the burning of the forests when the wildfires took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbess Hild, King Oswiu, St Cedd, Synod of Whitby, Whitby Abbey
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Keys of Heaven (5): the will of the king – gathering ~ Steve Tanham
We climb the steps to the Abbey at Whitby, aware that something different is happening; that the curtain of time is being drawn back… for as long as we can keep the critical mind at bay The years pass away. … Continue reading
Whitby Weekend: Within the Abbey
We did not visit the Church of St Mary, perched on the edge of the cliffs. I have to wonder for how much longer it will stand and was glad to have spent some time there on our previous visit … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Christianity, churches, Norman architecture, St Hilda, Synod of Whitby, weekend workshop, Whitby Abbey
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Keys of Heaven (4) – through the bones of the whale ~ Steve Tanham
The pale winter sun lies – to our symbolic view – just beyond the East Cliff horizon. Its lowness and lateness in the cold sky speaks of the approach of the winter solstice, a time of maximum darkness and minimum … Continue reading
Keys of Heaven (3): the synchronicity of kindness ~ Steve Tanham
There’s a certain ‘presence’ about kindness. Like the spiritual – or, more likely, as a part of it – the act of unexpected kindness drops into our lives like a messenger from the ‘Gods’. So it was with our visit … Continue reading
The Moment that Teaches ~ Steve Tanham
Most people who venture into the mystical encounter it before too long – that momentary sense of the world dropping away and an intense silence taking centre stage. In that silence is a new perspective which does not belong to … Continue reading
The Landscape that Teaches ~ Steve Tanham
When we were creating the Silent Eye’s mentored correspondence course, we envisaged a three-year journey through a mental, emotional and spiritual landscape which would evolve as the Companion’s learning and depth of ‘being’ increased. This landscape was to be internal … Continue reading
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