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On the other hand…
Working with quantum healing, to quickly (urgently) put right this world and our personal health (its all the same) requires that we work equally with both the manifest and not-yet-manifest realms; yes, it involves getting real and practical, down and dirty with our world “as is” to make the shifts we desire…we simply can’t favour one over the other, for our attention, any more. Sorry! Continue reading →
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Tagged 5G, avoiding seeing what we dont want to see, avoiding what we fear, awareness, belief systems, choices, conscious living, consciousness in human form, decision-avoidance, facing the darkness of our world, fully aware, Gregg Braden, healing the world, labyrinth, law of attraction, linear and non-linear realities, living through precarious times, quantum reality, seeing the whole picture, spiritual action, taking practical action to change the world, the need to get practical, triskele, yin-yang
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“Brain” waves and consciousness: the evolutionary imperative
Exploring how “brain waves” are related to human consciousness; how they already impact our thinking and behaviour and whether they are on the verge of changing us all, in a profoundly evolutionary sense with, no doubt, massive implications for our world. Continue reading →
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Tagged alpha waves, awareness, balance, beta waves, delta waves, duality, embodiment, enlightened action, evolution of human consciousness, frequency, Gamma waves, harmony, human consciousness, human evolution, labyrinth, masculine and feminine, meditation, ninth wave, oneness, quantum field, schumann resonance, taking part in life, The Nine Waves of Creation, tipping point, transcendence, what does the schumann resonance do to humans?
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Still coming
Quarter of a century since the Sally Potter film “Orlando” was released…something made me almost desperate to watch it just as the ninth wave hit its cusp and it was obvious why. The narrative takes us through both genders; the ever-romantic Orlando switching from male to female when a crisis of masculine identity is reached during a battle yet things prove even less plain-sailing when, as a woman, she is confronted with all the ridiculous social and legal infringements upon that gender’s liberty over the next two centuries. So where is she now, as she sits under a modern-day tree with her daughter by her side looking straight into the camera, a fixed knowing-gaze of such optimism it jolts you inside though a tear tries to form (hers and yours)? All these years later, I feel I know what she means as the film reveals new layers under the spotlight of hindsight; appreciating what was just starting back then, where we have been and where we are still coming to…together.
A remarkably prophetic film (from an equally prophetic novel) and a must watch if you consider yourself an agent of unity consciousness – dip into Orlando with me via this taster of Sally Potter’s still-pristine masterpiece. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, History, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged androgyny, eighth wave, evolution, feminine and masculine, healing the rift between male and female, healing the world, homosexuality, Jimmy Somerville, labyrinth, ninth wave, Orlando, return of sacred feminine, Sally Potter, tilda swinton, transgender, unity consciousness, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville West, we are all the same, we are one
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Uncommon alchemy: a Glastonbury tale
Repeatedly bumping into one or two people that you feel that you know and yet never saying a word to them (except with your eyes), knowing that they feel it too…these are the kind of clues to your own experience that present through the layers of Glastonbury. This along with so many signs and synchronicities that it is is quite possible to feel like you are entering a theme park dedicated to all of your own thematic threads, which gives it an air of detachment from everyday life that starts delivering as soon as you arrive. For this reason, I suspect, Avalon can only really be found through the portal of your own heart-journey, not somebody else’s route, so be prepared to give yourself up to this as fluidly as your timetable allows (preferably, having no such schedule). For my own part, I was struck by my choice of a week in October; an interesting choice, just before All Hallows and yet, I already suspected, going there when Somerset’s dark-pagan underbelly was closest to the surface was part of what was held in store for me…and it was.
Sharing an exceptional few days of pure alchemy working with the ancient landscape of Glastonbury…. (read on). Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Leylines, Life journey, Meditation, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged alchemy, All Hallows, apple tree, attracting your experiences, Avalon, Avalon of the Heart, contrast, Dion Fortune, dragon lines, end of separation, Fisher King, following your theme, germination, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor, grounding, Guinevere, healing water, holy grail, holy thorn, iron-rich water, King Arthur, labyrinth, leylines, light and dark, Michael and Mary leyline, Michael layline, overcoming fear, polarity, potential, rebalancing, rebirth, red berries, red lion, return to the womb, sacred feminine, sacred site, seed, shrine, synchroncitiy, The Chalice Well, The White Spring, transformation, twice-blossoming, vesica piscis, wholeness, winter blossom, yin and yang
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Glass butterflies
I noticed something very distinct about Amsterdam and that was how the layout of its main canals, in a layered horse-shoe shape, divided by roads and intersecting canals that fanned it out like a turkey-tail, reminded me of an inverted tree of life or rather, a tree of life labyrinth. I have talked about my labyrinthine experiences walking around the streets of various towns many times before and here was another example showing up in my experience. The labyrinth can be an extremely powerful way of encountering portals at the points where energies intersect and seems to invite multi-faceted experience into your awareness through these portals; which serve as an axis-point between other dimensions (you could think of such a portal as the truck of a tree connecting dimensional “branches”). So, in effect, you can find yourself standing in an ordinary physical “place” when suddenly your three-dimensional “reality” (which starts to take on symbolic significance in ways you didn’t notice before; these everyday things are now”clues” to make you sit up and take notice) seems to intersect more fluidly than ever with other dimensions that you can now perceive.These power nodes train you in multi-dimensional awareness and so you familiarise yourself with its potential in ways that you get to take with you through other walks of life. When you encounter these power-portals, you feel riveted to the spot as coincidences of circumstance “speak” to you in a multitude of ways, offering new layers of deeper meaning and understanding to what you ordinarily encounter with your five senses. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Holiday destinations, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Photography, Remembering, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged Amsterdam, butterfly, feeling safe, healing, labyrinth, madagascan sunset moth, metaphysical, oil on canvas, Painting, photography, portal, reconciliation, reflection, Travel, windows, without fear
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Breaking out of tradition
Tradition can feel like it grounds us, holds us safe on the familiar soil of our world; and there is such a lot of fear around disrespecting the past, its ways and inhabitants, those things they put themselves through to get us here. The seasons rhythmically comfort us like the rocking arms of a cradling mother, reassuring us that we are safe, held and nurtured in the embrace of something far bigger than we allow ourselves to accept that we are. Yet when we let go of all these as the determining factors of our experiences and allow the tightly coiled impulses of many lifetimes pull asunder, to limber up and snap out of their restraints and to leap where they will again, we put the spring back into life and we reach closer to our potential, like tiny steps suddenly made giant.
This can be exhilarating beyond words and, above all, sweeps us up in the knowing that whatever happens now is uniquely ours, not somebody else’s pattern. When we let go of old fixed patterns, it’s not that we are suddenly devoid of patterns in our lives…but, rather, that far more uniquely perfect, divinely inspired ones start to assert themselves through the rhythms of our lives. They sing their exquisite melodies through the so-called accidents of synchronicity and convergence, through intuition and quick-step impulses, delivering lyrics to a song we might have missed hearing altogether in the habitual hymnal of our old life. On hearing them, this becomes the point when life stops being conditional upon mundane circumstance and becomes something with its own set of wings. Continue reading →
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Tagged be here now, breaking tradition, changing how to spend christmas, choices, claiming back your life, enthusiasm, excitement, experiments in living, getting out of the habit, labyrinth, letting life fly, music connects through time, put the spring back in life, repetitious behaviour, stuck points, synaesthesia, synchronicity
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Leading me up the garden path
The weather that delivered on the day of our long-planned visit to Charleston turned out to be nothing like what I had painted in my head; the sky was tipping water by the bucket-full. But then, of course, everything glistened; the fruit, especially, glistened as though freshly varnished and the petals hugged droplets of water like glass teardrops perfectly poised. We got to marvel at the way the bees knew how to line up with their backs to the wind and hang upside down beneath the flower heads – one on each bloom – until the rainshower was over. We got that kind of light that is clear and crisp, not washed-out and without subtlety as on a typical summer’s day. The velvet reds “zinged” and the greens looked like freshly squeezed life-zest personified; vibrant and rejuvenating to receive with all the senses. One of the gifts was the unexpected juxtaposition of a dripping-wet female form peeking out through vivid wet leaves and abundantly ripe fruit;her wet face had something to tell me and it was nothing at all about tears…”I sleep; I do not weep” were words that came boomeranging back at me later that same weekend in yet another stunning garden and the journey in between turned out to be a labyrinth of self-discovery through a landscape of universal themes. Continue reading →
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Tagged Bloomsbury, Brighton, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, everything is perfect, garden design, Harold Nicholson, homosexuality, labyrinth, Long Man of Wilmington, male and female, male and female collaboration, marriage, relationships, sacred feminine, serpent, Sissinghurst, St Michael & All Angels Church Berwick, telluric energy, Vanessa Bell, Vita Sackville West, yin and yang
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Walking the labyrinth
Yes, life is a labyrinth yet I came to realise the true magic and the alchemy taking place in my world happened because of the blind and unexpected corners, the surrender to the unknown instead of demanding that life have a plan. In walking St Catherine’s labyrinth, I saw that, however overgrown and confusing that route had become at ground level, there was always a higher design to everything and, really, no room for accidents or mishaps when taken one step at a time following the clue right in front of you. As in my own life, the more bends and unexpected twists or turns I encountered, the more my overall perspective softened, returning me towards a wholeness that welcomed me in and delivered a reunion with all the fragmented parts of everything, including of myself. Around some of those sharpest of corners, we find all the multidimensional aspects of ourselves come together and stack up one above the other, like stepping on an axis point between our many layers that explodes us into a broader reality that holds the potential to blast us out of the most pervasive cul-de-sacs of our experience as seen at ground level. These heightened moments…the kinds you can never plan to have…shift us through walls that may once have seemed impenetrable and show us a completely different landscape on the other side. Continue reading →
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Tagged Belinus Line, dragon, duality, Elen of the Ways, fifth dimension, green man, labyrinth, left and right brain hemispheres, leyline, living out of the body, male and female, power node, sacred feminine, sacred site, serpent, sixth dimension, snake, Spine of Albion, St Catherine's Hill, St George, St Peter's church, telluric energy, The Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Titchfield, vesica pisces, Winchester
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Graceful journey: a Scandinavian experience
When grace happens to you, it is like a moment of poise that you just know is exactly where you were destined to be; one you will never forget and will continue to draw upon at times when life drags you back into its slip streams. Like portals between layers of space and time that tell us we are unfailingly on track, can’t even be off-track if we tried, these appointments with our own self-created destiny are powerful nodes of experience that communicate back and forth across time and space and make life feel unimaginably coherent, even in the midst of the most tragic or unexpected things happening around us. Nothing can truly shake us out of this sense of coherence once we plug into this personal journey of the heart. There is true power and strength to be found around so many unlikely street corners on such a journey through life; one which takes us far closer to the true epicentre of our own heart-maze than anything we could experience from following somebody else’s guidance on where we should be going, what we should be doing. Listen to the advice, yes…but the listen to your own inner guidance first; and take some of those detours down less trodden streets and be amazed at what shows up in some unexpected places. That’s when we realise that grace is, ultimately, an inside job and entirely portable, wherever we happen to be. From that space, we realise, place is just a matter of perspective; that the inner work is where it all happens and that, through the attitudes we adopt, we really are the true architects of our world, the creators of our own skyline view and (when we allow life to unfold for us) we are always, unfailingly, in the right place at the right time. Continue reading →
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Tagged appreciating where you live, archipelago, architectural design, benefit of multi-cultural experiences, borders, broadening persective, changing how we eat, Copenhagen, cultural cross-pollination, Denmark, easy life, eco shopping, free movement between places, Gamla Stan, going against the crowds, grace, healing energy pathways, healing the history of a place, heightened moments, holiday experiences, how travel evolves us, labyrinth, life without planning, living gracefully, metaphysical experience, neural plasticity, organic food, photography, positives of travel, right place at right time, sacred feminine, scandinavia, spiritual journey, spontaneity, Stockholm, synchronicity, Travel, travel as a vegetarian, use of space, vegan restaurants, vegetarian diet, what grace is
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spinning the light 