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July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poem on a Birthday

All the myths and stories tell us the gift exists to be transformed and passed...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: the Need to Ground and Shield

Creativity is by its nature radical. Grounding and shielding helps us protect ourselves when the...

May 02, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: The Need to Slow

One cannot seek endarkenment with the clock ticking or the timer going off.

April 2016

April 04, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Downward to Darkness

There comes a time when we feel the tug in our gut, the impulse to...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Creative Endarkenment: Pausing to Get Acquainted with Darkness

All creativity roots itself in the dark, no matter how small or large the idea...but...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Compassion

Spirituality - embodied or otherwise - is merely narcissism and self-indulgence when it doesn't involve...

January 26, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Magical Tools

Tools are levers for affecting the world. You can't tighten a screw without a screwdriver....

January 14, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Archery

When I am doing archery, I am totally in the moment, totally focussed on hitting...

January 12, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Hearth

The hearth is traditionally the place where you honour your ancestors and household gods and...

January 10, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: The Sit Spot

A really great way of experiencing yourself as part of nature is to incorporate the...

January 08, 2016

Pagan Contemplative Prayer

Contemplative prayer is a practice that is fairly simple to understand, but which may take...

January 06, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Grounding and Centering

Many Pagan rituals begin with grounding and centering. It comes from the Taoist tradition originally,...

January 04, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Meditative Walking

There are several different types of meditative walking, from various different spiritual traditions.The theologian St...

January 02, 2016

Embodied Spirituality: Walking The Labyrinth

Each person’s journey into the labyrinth is unique, although the labyrinth has a single pathway...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Haiku Writing

The haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which evolved out of the philosophy of...

December 28, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Gardening

Gardening is well known to be therapeutic, but it is also deeply spiritual. It is...

December 26, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Meditation Hut

The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids suggest building a meditation hut. The idea of...

December 24, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making an Altar

An altar is a focus for devotion, prayer or meditation. It can be simple or...

December 19, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Making a Mandala

A mandala is a twofold meditation tool. The process of creating it is meditative, and...

December 17, 2015

Embodied Spirituality: Storytelling

Most spiritual and religious traditions have a corpus of stories which transmit their values and...