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Trance Methods: Mantra Weaving

Adopt a comfortable, meditative position. Close your eyes and start a mantra sequence (For the purposes of this exercise I pick something pretty random, usually a sequence of consonanted sounds; ka da ma ta ha, for example)

Focus on the mantra until it you can self sustain it non vocally. Keep it going until it has [...]

In Love With All Creation

In love with all creation

A respected contributor to a Druid forum I participate on wrote of becoming a “soul-in-love-with-all-creation” through a devotional meditation practice and was kind enough to share some of this practice, the Dercad Duthracht. The concept put me in mind of an exercise I have worked with from the field of [...]

The Spirit of the Story

In a previous post I wrote about stories as triggers for spiritual growth, as catalysts. But what is it that allows a story to act as such a catalyst? By what virtue does a tale stimulate psycho-spiritual development?

In the future, I shall want to explore all those things that enable a story to trigger such [...]

Triggering Spiritual Growth through Story

“The shortest distance between truth and a human being, is a story.”
Anthony de Mello, Jesuit Priest

Many cultures share a process of facilitating spiritual growth through story. Most of us are familiar with koans, stories from the Japanese Zen Buddhist tradition that require the listener to suspend the usual ability to process narrative, to confound rational [...]