Philosopher Stone
20 September 2019 I woke to a Promethean poem this morning. Unfortunately it faded. I am left with the sense of a large almost-round grey pebble. The message within its fall to gravity was the...
View ArticleThe Rose in the Starfish
Rosicrucean Emblem Ten: Atlas Journal, 7 October 2019 Is ecstasy the captive of existential fear? Are they hand in glove? What is love? Here is a story in Arthur Koestler’s ‘The Act of Creation’:...
View ArticleDrawings of Animals, Persons and Phoenix
1 November 2019 This is a big post, mainly pictures, most of them drawings I did this year … with some story as it arose. The sketches of endangered creatures in the Amazon rain forest were...
View ArticleTerma – Dare to Trust
First, here is a link to The Time of the Sixth Sun. It is open until 15 November. You can watch the main film for free until Saturday 8pm GMT, 9 November, and the other daily documentaries for 24...
View ArticleA New Year – Wings within Spine
Circle, courtesy of The Sun Hermit (Tom Corsus) With Christmas we are thresholding Capricorn – the thresher of the Dweller – for the midwinter Solstice came late this year, on the 23rd. This morning...
View ArticleSun, Saturn, Pluto
Cupola: Angel’s Sound (1988) For my Gene Keys blog, I finished (with difficulty!) a drawing yesterday – cobra, wild boar and skylark – to illustrate the intuitive animal magic within the 54th Gene Key...
View ArticleUnder the Grass and Topsoil
“The Prime Emanation … is the Revolution inside our being. It’s a process that’s going on in many of us now, making us more and more uncomfortable, and that’s a good thing. It’s a mystical cleansing...
View ArticleAntiviral Tools and Hymn to Joy
Enjoy Beethoven’s 9th – the Hymn to Joy as played across the Netherlands! In this long post I compile some insights and impressions I received from others over the last month and pass them on in the...
View Article“Bits” of anger; and a dog called Maya
.. 10 May 2015 Journal – I dreamed of going down an almost sheer grassy cliff towards the sea below, and then worried if I was stuck, if I could climb back up, or if I would slip right down and be...
View ArticleA book “Lighthouse in Kettle’s Yard”– and a Dandelion
“My fascination with details will I hope never cease. Each object is a miracle.” (Jim Ede, “A Way of Life”, p.35) Here is something for you to open on a rainy Lockdown afternoon …...
View ArticleInto Aquarius – A Medicine
This week’s planetary surge in Aquarius – we walk with sun, moon, mercury, venus, jupiter, saturn – releases a Medicine from the deep. My dear friend Mischa Rutenberg’s song and profound prayer for...
View ArticleGathering Siva’s Mushrooms
Image from YouTube video “Gods Dancing” by mischamuse – copyright Sufism Reoriented 2021 There is a field wherein to pace our selves: to shield Your sign of grace. Like footfalls unfilled, a melody in...
View ArticleThe Queen, the King and Commonwealth, Part Two – an Epiphany
White Campion This post is linked with my previous post with its theme of sacred vessels: “The Queen and King, Part One – a Kabbalist’s Impression”. This second part is more esoteric – in places it...
View ArticleThe Queen and the King – Part One – A Kabbalist’s Impression
9-11 September 2022 This is Part One of a pair of posts – linked to Part Two, “The Queen, King and Commonwealth – an Epiphany.” When I saw the photo of the Queen taken on 6 September at Balmoral...
View ArticleHis Silent
Today 10 July 1925 (was it?) Meher Baba began his silence (Meher Baba images in this post are copyright (c) Sufism Reoriented 2023) For I whom He touches, am silence too, the Ringing Presence and...
View ArticleTouching the Beloved – On drawing Meher Baba
A celebration by Jane Adams and Mischa Rutenberg. On July 14 2024 a Sahavas weekend (“Dwelling together in the Beloved”) was held at the Meher Baba Association in Hammersmith, London. I was invited to...
View ArticleMy Pilgrimage to East Challacombe 2022
Drawings of Meher Baba and his companions in this post are copyright Sufism Reoriented 2024 “Gently, Sweetly” is a song by Mischa Rutenberg based on Jelalludin Rumi’s poem (Farhad Shafa translation)....
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