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Joy Activist
Joy doesn’t just come to us, we have to take steps to activate it, yet the more we create joy, the more joy we will create, for ourselves and others. This doesn’t even rely on creating the kind of joy that is visible to the outside world; it can be a deeply private joy-practice and yet it still ripples out to affect the energy field in which we all rub shoulders with one other, and it does make a huge difference. This form of activism is as important as any other, because it has never been more important that we all pulled together to hold a placeholder for the frequency of joy so that we get to take it with us into the next iteration of our world. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged activating joy, art, awaken, can pain and joy coexist?, cultivating joy, how to experience joy, intention setting, joy activism, joy body, joyful inspite of everything, maintaining a high frequency, music, remember, unconditional joy
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How to make more practical use of intuition
There seems to be a growing curiosity around intuition this year, one of many not so subtle clues to me that the world is waking up beyond the manifest, logical, left-brained dominance that has reigned supreme for so long. In … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life choices, Menu, Painting, Personal Development, Spirituality, Writing
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Tagged art, developing intuition, going direct, hypnotherapy, inner knowledge, intuition, intuitive skills, journalling, knowing which way to go, Lee Harris, left and right hemispheres of the brain, non-linearity, Painting, right brained, self-empowerment, synchronicity, wholeness
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One foot in the air
I often conjure up in my mind’s eye Blake’s “Glad Day” when I ponder the concept of “void” or “pure potential”. Does such a thing even exist, a question raised by my last post “Courage and Curiosity in the Void“? … Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality
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Tagged 2020, artist creator, beyond linearity, exploring the unknown, glad day, leap into the unknown, meditation, new paradigm, newness, optimism, pure potential, quantum, right-hemisphere, vitruvian man, void, where we are now, William Blake
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A brighter future
I suspect we are about to see a tremendous upsurge in the human spirit and, in its wake, a wave of the truest kind of human intuitive and creativity, like never before. I intuit that, across all these weeks of being sent to our room to reconsider our behaviour, we are clearing some of the plaque from our arteries, the scales from our eyes and the lead from our hearts; and to see what is real and what is not…and it’s about time Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art as a business, Art in the living space, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Craft & design, Culture, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Shopping
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Tagged all that glitters is not gold, art, authenticity, brighter future, conscious consumerism, covid19, creativity, ecology, emperor's new clothes, excitement for the future, fork in the road for humanity, guile, harry enfield, hope, human evolution, human spirit, i saw you coming, interior design, interior magazines, marketing, mindless consumerism, new beginnings, new start, positivity, reappraising what is important, reboot, reboot of humanity, reconfiguring our human behaviours, thicko, where do we go from here?
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The unmistakable lightening of days
Let me take you on a walk through a city; am impromptu Imbolc ceremony with a difference. No green pasture this, no village tree surrounded by fields…but, rather, pavements cracked with gold that speak of new beginnings. As ever, my … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Shared roots and scattered seeds
Collaborative music is one of my biggest passions; the feeling of it goes way beyond the lyrics or the tune and becomes a harmonic of happy coincidences, dismantled wall and powerful juxtapositions. The heart gets recruited, first…not as a cerebral afterthought…when such rhythms are unleashed. It’s a whole-sensory experience, beyond the boundary lines of culture or genre. How I long for the experience to be shared by so many more people; for them to be stirred up from their slumber and to feel what we all find so hard to give form to, as yet, in this world… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal art, Art, Art transformation tool, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged art as transformation tool, Aspergers, autism, bird art, birdsong, cross-pollination, crossing boundaries, dandelion, diversity of music, ecology, enthusiasm about music, extinction rebellion, folk, francesco turrisi, goldfinch, growth, highly sensitive, jackie morris, karine polwart, Kate Tempest, kris drever, multi-instrumentalists, music as political messenger, music as transformation, new growth, passion for music, power of music, relevance and meaning in music, rhiannon giddens, robert macfarlane, roots, roots music, sam lee, sensory sensitivity, serendipity, sewing seeds, singing with nightingales, special powers, spell songs, spells, the lost words, thinking outside the box, tingle factor, transformation, what guides musical taste, why do some people feel music more than others, wren
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Pigment of life
When a new paradigm starts to emerge, it can seem lacking in depth, an unfamiliar “convenience food” where a complex banquet of life used to be, throwing us into a turmoil of nostalgia for the old ways…though we don’t want those either. What calls us through the bewildering territory is an unspeakable force, an original spark without name… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Painting, Personal Development
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Tagged 2020, accepting diversity, age of aquarius, art, art and self awareness, artist, Aspergers, autistic approach to life, best of both worlds, changing process, evolution, exploring what life is about, gouache, incoporating all we have been and will be, instant karma, layers of experience, learning about life through art, life lessons, living methaphor, meaning of life, metaphor for life, new era, new painting medium, new paradigm, Painting, painting purpose, pure potential, reincarnation, self-mastery, synesthesia, win-win
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A fairy tale for our times…and, of course, a new ending
We have been told an old old (old) story so many times before that, even when a new version comes along, we think its still the same story…or do we? And is it? Not when seen through new fifth-dimensional “eyes”. Join me in looking at one of the most popular stories of the moment through these very eyes… Continue reading →
Posted in Art metaphor, Art purpose, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Films, Health & wellbeing, In the news, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged A Star is Born, androgyny, balance, Bradley Cooper, divine feminine, divine masculine, Elen of the Ways, fifth dimension, goddess for our times, healing, healing the broken masculine, hidden message of movies, Jack and Ally, Lady Gaga, Maximus and Elen, modern relevance of fairytales, new paradigm, Nine Waves of Creation, self-belief, the evolved human, the experience of 5D in life, wholeness, write a new ending
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In balanced places and quantum spaces…
Yes, a second post for the day…closely related to the last one but also quite the stand-alone account of a special place that I visited a few days ago, where I came across both ancient and contemporary hints of quantum resurrection well underway… Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Leylines, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged "stained glass", ancient wisdom, ancient yew tree, art and transformation, balance, bees, Berwick Church, beyond sacrifice and suffering, Bloomsbury, butterflies, David Hansel, Long Man of Wilmington, masculine and feminine, metamorphosis, Paul San Casciani, quantum, regeneration, resurrection, Saint Mary & Saint Peter Wilmington
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Fluidity and form in the living landscape of life
…these two artists I encountered had something in common. Though their mark making was pared back, economical with nothing superfluous in there at all, these landscapes THROBBED with unseen energetic life, before my very eyes, and reminded me that all things in existence are like this. We are all made-up of so much more than that which is registered by the first five senses and these other impulses make all of us, and the very landscape with which we interact at these unseen levels, who we truly are… Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Artists, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Exhibitions, Landscape art, Life journey, Menu, Painting, Personal Development
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Tagged abstraction, ancient landscape, art as communicator of the abstract, Art purpose, balanced brain, conveying feeling in art, energy art, energy in the landscape, evolution, form and fluidity, harmony, holistic perception, inspiration, JF Blighton RE, Landscape art, language of art, left and right hemispheres, letting go of control, masculine and feminine, Philip Hughes, philosophy, return of the sacred feminine, the need for flow, unseen realms, whole brain function
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