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Glass butterflies II
Glass Butterflies is a growing collection of photographs depicting butterflies in juxtaposition with glass: under frames, next to windows, inside glass houses…a metaphor that has deeply informed my painting, writing and thinking for a number of years. As well as taking me on a journey of deeply personal exploration, these synchronistic experiences have everything to do with releasing the Sacred Feminine from her “box” whilst learning to appreciate how that feminine aspect can be allowed to settle upon a much more equal and balanced relationship with the male-oriented, left-hemispherical “structures” of our three-dimensional reality. In a sense, the butterfly learns to work with “the box” on her terms and in ways that enhance her innate qualities; which is the very marriage of fluidity and form that underpins the art-process, taking “inspiration” through the journey of the creative act to where we have something tangible that we can interface with as a three-dimensional form of expression. As you can tell, the metaphor has many layers and continues to develop as one of the long-running themes of my experience. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal art, Architecture, Art, Art in the living space, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Installation art, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Photography, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Windows in art
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Tagged art and consciousness, art and evolution, balancing left and right hemispheres, butterflies in art, butterfly metaphor, divine feminine, inspiration, metamorphosis, sacred feminine, the ninth wave, yin and yang
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Out of the box
Perhaps Pandora was only ever meant to be the counter-impulse to a world that became so fixated upon compartmentalising everything that it was missing the point (or denying) that there is so much more than that which can be defined or pigeon-holed by the mind. Perhaps she was our safety-catch, primed to spring apart at just the right moment to save ourselves from our own self-defeating, self-limiting intellects. Perhaps many of us have experienced the unleashing of our own internal Pandora in recent years or decades and it is the combined effect of all these boxes springing open as one (mimicking many breakdowns and disasters in our lives…but, all of them, evolutionary in their nature) that is manifesting our next biggest evolutionary leap forwards. Who knows what small (or significant) part these archetypes have played, even as depicted in well-timed artworks hung on the walls of places where we spent our formative years; who know what a painting in a college full of women did for over thirty years at a key time in history (one of many drops in an evolutionary ocean). What makes a story such as hers ebb in and out of favour across the annuls of time yet never fully disappearing, even when we have tried to bury it deep in the basement under layers of dust? Yet, not to be set back by that unpromising outcome (much like many of us…) she found her way back into the daylight. Perhaps she has been pushing forwards with her message, with even more vigour than ever; the somewhat inconvenient wake-up call suggesting we might all want to let ourselves out of that mind-box once in a while. Whilst there were always going to be those that weren’t ready to hear her, I take heart from the fact there were others who were prepared to seek her out from her cobwebs and put her back in full view where she was always meant to be….(read more).
The true story of a painting lost and refound and how the way this became woven into my own life-story helped me to appreciate and understand the opening-up of my own personal Pandora’s Box as the evolutionary process that it was.
Posted in Art, Art history, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Artists, Biography, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, History, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged divine feminine, Dr Carl Calleman, Eve, evolution, Garden of Eden, heightened experience, JD Batten, left and right hemispheres, ninth wave, Pandora, Pre-Raphaelite, quantum-hollographic perspective of history, return of the right hemisphere, rise of feminism, St Andrews Hall Reading University, suppression of the female, The Nine Waves of Creation, yin-yang
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Lets sort this out, what are “yin” and “yang”?
“Yin and yang” – I talk about them such a lot but what are they in our everyday lives, beyond some abstract idea or a symbol we see daubed on the side of camper vans and on people’s tattoed flesh? Well … Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Universe
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Tagged balancing the world, divine feminine, divine masculine, ending conflict, evolution, healing the world, using yin and yang in real life, what are yin and yang, yin and yang in health, yin-yang
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Getting over the ultimate catastrophe
What I had hit upon…what indeed we are talking about here is a mass case of post-traumatic stress disorder that we all share and which variable triggers in our environment (that is, anything we have come to associate with “catastrophe” at the deepest levels) may well being “playing” inside of us like notes on a piano as these memories ask to be shown to the light of our consciousness so we can heal this planet as one. If we are alive, here and now, we are (at DNA level) survivors of this unthinkable cataclysm that took place in near-history (so, first off, congratulate yourself for that!) and yet it has remained completely suppressed by the orthodox version of history that we are taught and also by our own bodies, which have in effect volunteered to bury the information because it was just too painful to be seen. Such locked away trauma has a tendency to play out through our unconscious behaviour patterns and so-called irrational fears and, sooner or later…in order to heal…must see the light of day by being made conscious. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Remembering, Seasons, Space weather
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Tagged ancient civilizations, ancient technology, Atlantis, Avebury, Barbara Hand Clow, buried trauma, cataclysm, catastophy, changing seasons, debilitating fear, deep psychological wound, divine feminine, DNA, electro-sensitivity cause, healing through remembering, healing trauma, making trauma conscious, mass trauma, post-traumatic stress, pre-menstrual symptoms root cause, precession of the equinoxes, psychology of seasonal affective disorder, re-writing history, return to the garden of Eden, seasons, Stonehenge, stop fearing the future, triggers, yin and yang
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Now is the time…
I loved this novel so much and, like all the best and most timely reads, I chose it almost by accident, feeling my way into the author via a particular root I was following (“root” feels like exactly the right … Continue reading →
Posted in Authorship, Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Entertainment, Fiction, Life choices, Life journey, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Writing
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Tagged Alice Walker, ayahuasca, divine feminine, flow, grandmother, Now is the time to open your heart, review, river, shaman, shamanic journey, yagé
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Bless all the lambs
Their immense zest for life is the very thing that arrests me when I watch the lambs; the way these wooly youngsters engage with absolutely everything their idyllic green world has to offer, from the comedic pheasants walking by to the playful breeze that seem to whip them into jumping spirals of the most erratic motion, like leaves lifting off the ground. They race each other in playful gangs and they collaborate with audacious climbing partners, vying to get to the top. They suddenly leap up, bronking and bucking with bizarre spring-loadedness as though the ground has just tickled them. Then, when just as suddenly spent, they gravitate to their ever watchful mother’s side and succumb to warm grassy patches where, alone or in twin pairs, they meditate away all the gentle hours, eyes half closed and, yes, a kind of smile on their faces; apparently transported by an enviable ability to surrender themselves fully to the moment. Then again, suddenly up on those spring-loaded feet, they’re back to scrambling to that water’s edge, conquering the tree stump or forming pyramids on each other’s backs. If you have ever enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching a pack of dogs playing or even (for that matter) human children, these are really no different and their joie de vive is contagious as you watch. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Culture, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Vegetarianism
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Tagged animal welfare, averting our gaze, blessing things, blessings, changing the world, creation, cultural conditioning, disconnect, divine feminine, emotional disconnect, empowerment, energy, expanded consciousness, focus, follow your bliss, follow your own course, how to help animals, intention, joy, lack of honesty around meat consumption, living what you believe, mainstream media, mass produced meat, namaste, not facing what we don't like, optimism is power, overwhelm, passion, personal genius, pessimism undermines us, post-traumatic stress, power of intention setting, power of positivity, prayer, vegetarian, visualisation, waterfalls
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Following the unseen river
The sense of all these voices being tuned-in and innately guided towards an unrehearsed harmony that perfectly blended all the various pitches, the personal notes into one unified sound was quite palpable and, as it hit the ceiling, this magnified one-sound seemed to rain down on us and feed back into us all as pure energy…It seemed like I had followed an invisible flow to be here this night. I had been part of a river of great healing flowing freely, had witnessed something incredible, taken part in it, knew for certain something quite wonderful was well underway…. Continue reading →
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Tagged Amwell Spring, blood no longer denied, boldness, Chadwell Spring, colour red, cygnus, Deva Premal & Miten, divine feminine, divine union, Elen of the Ways, flow, harmony, healing, inclusiveness, Islington, Jahnavi Harrison, James Cubitt, London, Love within-beyond, mantra, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, Mash Vahdat, Mighty Sam McClain, music collaborations across cultures, music heals, New River, Old St Pancras, oneness, prayer, River Fleet, River Westbourne, sacred feminine, sacred feminine and colour red, sacred water, Sadlers Wells, sanskrit, Scent of reunion: Love duets across civilizations, shine your light tour, springs, swan, Tina Turner, union, Union Chapel, water source, wells, white lilies
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Returning to source: a symbolic journey
To get to where I really wanted to be (which was the twin stone circles of Nant Tawr) there were obstacles…so many watery obstacles…I had never before experienced water as such a direct obstacle before and no choice to embark on the journey anyway; and what a gift it turned out to be…the natural landscape incorporated into the very ritual of reaching the place I was headed for. Like the double helix twists, turns and crossing points of my very own life experience across multi-lifetimes, I was both “already there” and “heading back there” in every moment of this scramble across rivers and steep banks…getting nearer and then further away…choosing it, aiming straight, losing sight of it again, finding it precarious, hard, painful even…then getting back on track, dumping any unhelpful baggage I realised I had accumulated, knowing when to laugh along with myself, remembering this “place” once again like a heart-song calling me, sighing with the exhilaration of being back there and the joy of realising I knew the feeling of it like an old friend as soon as I got even close. These experiences were looping and relooping around me like the very water I was crossing until I got the rhythm of how it happened, keeps happening, had been happening since the very beginning of human “time”, like a familiar series of intricate dance steps (yes, I was being shown my very own dance moves by these audacious strips of water). I was being taken through all the old manoeuvres, humiliations, lost-confidence hiccoughs and sticking points of my life until I got to recognise them for what they were and was, instead, able to concentrate on that other feeling of reunion and return…of being up there on the other bank in the sunshine, high and dry…over and above that old feeling of separation from what I wanted, scratching my head at so many seeming-obstacles spread out all before me. By the time I had crossed my final hurdle, with a broad grin on my face, numb feet and slightly soggy trousers, I was really getting it…because that something that was drawing me closer was so palpable to me that the exhilaration of the experience was everything and was carrying me forwards across endless golden meadow. Continue reading →
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Tagged Beltane, Black Mountains, divine feminine, divine masculine, dragon line, Elen of the Ways, finding yourself, initiation, May Day, Michael and Mary leyline, mountains, Nant Tawr stone circles, netrality, quest, return to source, reunion with self, ritual, rivers, sacred journey, screw site, shamanic journey, standing stones, symbolic journey, void, wtaer
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Go into the garden
Through our very actions, our softly treading footsteps into the secret part of the garden, we demonstrate how its not always about having to be in the heart’s racing pulse of everything that seems to going on at such speed and with such drama all around us that we feel, constantly, like we might be left behind. Rather, we go where the little girl inside us leads for she still remembers the way there, knows where the white rose always blooms. This is sacred knowledge and it is coming back into the broader consciousness, led by those who already feel it; by the heart. Continue reading →
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Tagged divine feminine, heart space, Jeff Foster, JW Waterhouse, Kate Bush, living in the heart, living in the moment, no rush, Pre-Raphaelite, revealing yourself, rose, sacred feminine, Tracey Thorn, Under the Ivy
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In search of waterfalls
Something called me back to the Brecon Beacons and Wye Valley this year and I responded to it like a knee-jerk impulse (since we hardly needed yet another trip this busy year…), booking it almost before I had time to … Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Leylines, Life choices, Life journey, Literature, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged ancient sites, Avebury, Avebury Stone Circle, balance, Black Mountains, books, Brecon Beacons, Carreg Cennen Castle, Consciousness, creative flow, divine feminine, divine masculine, Fan Brycheiniog, female qualities, Four Waterfall Walk Brecon, Hay-on-Wye, Henrhyhd Falls, Michael and Mary leyline, Nant Tawr stone circles, photography, River Wye, sacred feminine, St Mary's church, symbolic journeys, true joy, Wales, water energy, water flow, what makes you happy, Wye Valley, yin and yang
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