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Liverpool Art School 1969 – Sketchbook 6
.. Here is another Liverpool sketchpad from 1969. I was at art school there, for a year. You can use the Search button on this blog, to find my other Liverpool sketches – I use my blog to archive...
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The Pool of Life
.. Liverpool Cathedral This post is a partner to yesterday’s Liverpool sketchbooks (for my archive) – Jung’s dream in 1927 of Liverpool. His pioneering journey into the unconscious was extraordinary...
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Plato’s Cave
.. Sages by the holy hill – Ramana, Poonja and devotee I am conditioned by a spiritual teaching: to keep quiet in personal matters – why? Because – the noise and pain is on the surface, and cannot...
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A Picture-Book – Pierrot and the White Wolf
.. Pierrot in the fields This story for our children, and for the world’s ageless children in ourselves, was written in French by Catherine Harding during the 1990s; she asked me to illustrate it. In...
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Tales of the Watershed – Chinese Torch Prints
.. fish by Steven Szegedy Szuts Dreams No.89 May 1975 IF YOU were Chinese … If who was Chinese? Me, you or history? The dream is a scribe of “his” story. The dream tells me with some authority,...
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Sacred India Tarot Archive – the Suit of Staves – Ace
.. The Sacred India Tarot bridges Indian yoga and mythology with western esoteric schools. Tarot key 1 – the Magus – belongs here, to open a new Suit – the Suit of Wands. His is the Intelligence of...
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Human Landscape – Refugee Children
What can a war artist do? A photo is quickly taken, sold to a news agency, reacted to in passing by millions, and passed over. A drawing takes far longer in time and space, to contemplate the...
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Nilakantha and the Golden Constellation
.. Sacred India Tarot – Ramana as Skanda son of Siva Tensions are imagination trapped in illusory codes. The tension appears to have the power to materialise, but it has no substance after the thought....
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A Resonance between Two Models – Leonard Cohen & Ramesh Balsekar
During my visit to Ramesh in Mumbai, in early 1999, I witnessed the following conversation with Leonard Cohen, and bought the tape. After I got home, I made this transcript: Ramesh – You live in a Zen...
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A Resonance between Two Models – Part Two
In my previous post, I abridged the full transcript of Ramesh Balsekar’s conversation with Leonard Cohen in early 1999, because it was very long. Here are the missing bits, including Ramesh’s...
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Kabbalah Notes – Companions of the Light
Under Piccadilly circus 1965 When the author Susan Howatch is writing her novel, she loves all her characters astray and how they develop, light and shadow, bad and good, as they well to life, and she...
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Ganapati Muni’s Science of Mantra – Part One
Vedic goddess Here’s a four-part post series for scholars! I haven’t studied the layered meanings in Sanskrit. But I learnt a few sacred Names and phrases along the way; I hear the chanting and smell...
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Ganapati Muni’s Science of Mantra – Part Two
.. My blog includes my “landmarks”, which I archive within the creative process. As a western sadhak searching to become more focused, and to plug in to the “dimension”, I am inspired again by...
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Ganapati Muni’s Science of Mantra: Part Three
CONTINUED FROM PART TWO – the “Guru Mantra Commentary” by Ganapati Muni (see previous post.) Mantric language is cyclic, rhythmic, primordial. Whether we know any Sanskrit or not, the vibration grows...
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Ganapati Muni’s Science of Mantra – Part Four
In this concluding post of the series, Ganapati Muni’s commentary elucidates the forms of Skanda and Indra which bear the mantra’s sound-wave, Subra Brahman, seeing them realised in his spiritual...
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A Poem of Eclipse – the Homeopath
.. Drag. Pierce lightly. Left hand is my power unskilled at life, the in-tuition. The opening for a second is in this broken moment, unforgettable. .. .. You said to the imp in a bubbling girl, “You...
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Wood and Water Poem at Solstice
What do I do with ways Home when none of them take me home? Stay homeless! Today the tide does not deliver energy and hope. This surging current is the no mans land. Deep down, is a well of peace...
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Sacred India Tarot Archive – Two of Staves/Wands
“.. In this Tarot series we are still transitioning from the Swords which administer Karma, to the Wands which deliver justice. A wand, staff or stave is a connecting instrument. It signifies...
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Happy Birthday, Robert
Here are some “Imponderables” from the American sage Robert Adams (21 January 1928 11.30pm – 5 March 1997). I woke up this morning, saw something on facebook, and was inspired to celebrate his...
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Robert’s Imponderables – Part Two
See previous post for more soliloquies from the late American sage and jnani, Robert Adams, who sat with Ramana Maharshi … .. “You are not what you appear to be. The world is not what it appears to...
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