Monday 28 October 2024

The Art of Conversation with the Genius Loci Rides Again!

The Art of Conversation with the Genius Loci rides again!

In a down-to-earth and practical way it suggests ways for people to explore, find and make deeper contact with their own special places. There is also a very personal journey through the inner landscape of the mind and the book deals with various methods of dealing with the issues that outdoor meditation and magic are likely to bring up, including privacy, safety and protection for both the place and the person.
 
It's a pdf of 157 pages, updated & abridged. 
 
I originally said I'd make it available for a donation but I found a free way of making it downloadable for a small fee. It costs £6.99. (UKP)

If you can't afford that & are desperate to read it just get in touch. I hope that it behaves in your various readers. Please let me know, one way or another.

Entire chapters have been excised & some re-named. I have also updated some sections. This isn’t an academic text, so references are limited to a short Further Reading section at the end of each chapter. I’ve been advised to have a practical section at the end of each chapter, but to do that I’d have to re write everything. Besides, this is a very practical book! You’ll find practical suggestions on just about every page. However, to make it easy for you to find specific practices or advice I have made an Index of Practicalities, which you will find at the end of the book.
You can get it from here: https://payhip.com/TAoCwtGL and you can read about it's origins by clicking on the dedicated tab at the top of this page.

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Monday 30 September 2024

Exquisite Without Having to be a Corpse


 Dionysian without being reckless
Exquisite without having to be a corpse
Wild without being terrifying
Enormous without being oppressive
Luminous without being obvious
Wise without being patronising
Loving without being nostalgic
Angry without being violent
Beautiful without being pretty
Perfect without being self conscious

Monday 2 September 2024

Moon Rings


 

We can sense
something
both intimate & cosmic
in the galilean moons
in their silver rings of orbit.

Cosmic
because we know
how far away
they are
& how ancient.

Intimate
because those
delicate points of light
now shine within
our own body.

A direct
connection between
the infinite
& the small:
the night’s lights
& the body’s darkness
are both
secretly transparent
to one another.

Our task
is to
recognise this.

Our task
is to
recognise our chains
of space & time
but not to
serve them
or struggle against
them
but to see them
clearly.

Like the orbits
of distant
tiny moons.