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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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Being the unpruned tree
We should make room for some wildness in our gardens; it keeps us mindfully connected to the earth and it leads to interesting, surprising and oh-so important new experiences. Some pruning, here and there, asking the garden what it needs, can be helpful; yes, but there is no place for dubiously motivated shears in the next phase of our human adventure. Some would have us all as neatly trimmed and uniform as a garden made up of identical topiary but there’s a whole other tree that we’ve forgotten about (you could call it a Tree of Life); one that is so vast and other-dimensional (though ever-present) that many have fogotten how to look up and see it there… Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Gardens & gardening, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged Aspergers, autism, Carl Jung, Connection to nature, connectivity, eco crisis, highly sensitive, human evolution, Mary Reynolds, ninth wave, rewilding, Sharon Blackie, synaptic pruning, tree of life, what the world needs now
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