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New synapses, old synapses
I’ve had a growing feeling all year long that the exercise in social distancing has been some sort of externalised manoeuvre of growing new synapses. The more the old haunts of my daily walks closed off, became inaccessible or had too many people suddenly launched into them, the more I discovered new places, often right beneath the very eyes of where I used to pass by but never noticed the subtle entrance to pathways into enchanted woods that have turned out to be new-favourite walks. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged Consciousness, consciousness growth, growing new synapses, inner sanctum, inner stillness, learn from trees, lockdown, motivation, Personal Development, return to the self, self-awareness, self-enquiry, spirituality, understanding your motivations, when plans fall apart
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Today, I spotted this beauty on the 24 year anniversary of my mother transitioning from this world; she was always the queen of the four leaved clover, finding them, with ease, wherever she went. I never could… Exactly 22 years … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged anniversary, attention to detail, beyond logic, four-leaved clover, messages beyond death, noticing patterns, observation skills, open mindedness, outside of linearity, psychic abilities, seeing things differently, signs and symbols, synchronicity
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Grounded
Sometimes its when we most feel like we are “grounded” that we take off and fly…a sure sign that we really needed it! Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged animals roam cities during lockdown, balance, chronic health, coronavirus, Covid-19, crisis, evolution, expansion, grounded, health crisis, learning from mistakes, light pollution, nature, opportunity in all things, optimism, pandemic, paradox, positivity, rewilding, stars, stop and take pause, what we can learn from coronavirus
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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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Tagged against tyranny, balance, Boudica, Boudicca, brexit, Brigid's Day, Burne-Jones, Christoper E Street, city of gold, druids in London, earth connection, earth star, electrosensitivity, English eccentricity, enlightened city, fierce womanhood, Hampstead Heath, Helen Allingham, highly sensitive, Imbolc, intuition, light your own fire, London leylines, London's lost rivers, married to the Earth, Mary Magdalene, mass awakening, metoo, mothers and daughters, mystic, Nature in the city, new cycle, out of sight, personal growth, Pre-Raphaelites, rebirth, redheads, River Fleet, Rossetti, sacred feminine, sacred landscape London, sacred rivers, sacred sites, schumann resonance, silence breaker, silenced female, sisterhood, spiritual awakening, springtime, suppressed feminine, trees, trust in nature, vagina museum, visionary, what is Imbolc really about?, wild swimming, William Blake, William Morris, women take action
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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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Soft landing
Amsterdam through Asperger’s eyes; a multi-dimensional map, a palette of many textures and a journey of deep self-exploration. Continue reading →
Posted in Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged Amsterdam, Ann Frank, Asperger's and nationality traits, Asperger's and taking fiction and non-fiction characters to heart, Asperger's seeming aloof, Asperger's social preferences, Aspergers, austistic spectrum, autism, canal district, communication without words, Dutch, Ehlers-Danlos, executive function, fibromyalgia, food intolerances, good habits, healthy eating, holocaust, hooked into rhythms and patterns, individuality, Jordaan, left and right hemispheres, letting go of what doesn't support you, love Amsterdam, love of maps, maps, needing to pull back into yourself, neuroplasticity, positive thinking, self-acceptance, street plans, structure and softness, synesthesia, taking in sensory impressions as information, Temple Grandin, thinking in pictures, vegan gluten free food, watching life through windows, Westerkerk carrilon
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Going “nowhere”, reaching beyond “the point”
A potent place on the so-called “road to nowhere”…a life review…and an opportunity to realise the astonishing power of even the most a subtly altered perspective.
All this and more from a serendipitous revisit to a place that seemed to draw me back there…no arguing! Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged 21 December 2012, a world without fear, altered perspective, close to the edge, cygnus, darkness, embracing the unknown, end of an era, epigenetics, holly trees, new paradigm, not having to know what next, not knowing, Oford, ruined churches, spiritual places, swans, the magic of void, unlimited, what has changed since 2012?, where are we now?, where next?, yin and yang
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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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Revisiting the Venetian labyrinth
What can we learn from the dying stars of the previous era; those places that thrived without apparent rhyme or reason due to a particular mix in their qualities? There’s much to learn when we come to realise that certain places asserted a particular energy (first) and then humans came along and interpreted that energy through their actions, expressing them as what looks like human life, human decisions, human preoccupations, human mastery. So what made people settle in this swampy, mosquito-ridden place, for instance; what made them just so determined to be here that they exercised all their powers of ingenuity to build where there was almost nothing to build on, to keep innovating, starting over from scratch when the waters reclaimed all their efforts, learning from their mistakes in order to build a city that became an empire and a spiritual, cultural, commercial tour de force of the separation era? What can we take away from that, on the inside, once we come to understand that the global mind is a mirror-image of the human mind, with all the same bells and whistles? My experiences of 30 years visiting this extraordinary place thew up some answers for me earlier this month. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged autonomy, awakening, awareness, balance, Carl Johan Calleman, end of separation, energy node, energy of place, global mind, heart resonance, human evolution, labyrinth, left and right brain hemispheres, light and dark, masculine and feminine, ninth wave, planetary mind, quantum evolution, shamonic journey, tree of life, Venice, working with places, yin-yang
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