On the eve of the Summer Solstice, as the sun dipped low over the horizon, casting a golden hue across the sands, the beach was alive with anticipation. Families, friends, and solitary wanderers alike had gathered, drawn by the promise of the longest day, and the magic that it held. Among them was a youngContinue reading “Short Story: Bunjil’s Blessing on Summer Solstice Eve”
Category Archives: Spirituality and Mysticism
My life without a barrage of news
Did you hear the news? That the news is corrosive and cancer-causing? It calcifies your organs with anxiety and fear. It gets into your processing pipes and fills them with congealed sagging lassitude and indifference. Well no, not really I just made that up because inside of my body I feel news weighing upon itContinue reading “My life without a barrage of news”
Ancient Word of the Day: Kairos
When you walk with ‘Kairos’ you learn how to tip yourself out of chronological time and are able to decommodify your footsteps to walk in sacred time and to the rhythm of your creative mind.
Ancient Word of the Day: Humus
From the word ‘Humus’ come many of the words for being human and humility. For millennia and across many cultures, walking with your bare feet in the earth has been a sign of humility.
Yoga saved my brain and body
Yoga at its best can be quietly revolutionary but the revolution goes on inside of you. With diligent time set aside every day your body and brain will transform over time. Out of depression and worries, anxieties and existential angst. Whatever is bothering you, yoga over time and with a gentle teacher can address it.Continue reading “Yoga saved my brain and body”
Powerful Thought: The dead bird urges you to write
Rachel Carson was urged to write ‘Silent Spring’ by the dead birds she held in her hands who called her to write.
She could not live, knowing what she had learned about DDT, without speaking, without – her gift – lifting her pen to write.
Book Review: The Book of Symbols by the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS)
The Book of Symbols is a masterpiece of art history, philosophy, mysticism, psychology, anthropology, biology and spirituality. It brings together the history of various symbols, concepts and objects from many cultures and civilisations.
Comforting Thought: Regard yourself as a cloud
“Regard yourself as a cloud in the flesh; because, you see, clouds never make mistakes. Then through this capacity you will develop a kind of confidence … you will be able to trust your own intuition.” Alan Watts
Comforting Thought: Live now, as we think human beings should live @jhalifax
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history based not only on cruelty but also on compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness. “What we choose to emphasise in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst,Continue reading “Comforting Thought: Live now, as we think human beings should live @jhalifax”
Ancient word of the day: Uncanny
The ancient word of the day is Uncanny. This is the feeling of encountering a landscape, person or object that is both frightening and unsettlingly dissonant. Freud coined a similar word for this “unheimlich”— which is to say, eerie and both homely and unhomely. I’m sure you would be able to recall some uncanny encounters,Continue reading “Ancient word of the day: Uncanny”
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