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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 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 [...] This is a slightly experimental post using WordPress’s podcasting plug-in for the first time. The Tale of the Sands is a Sufi teaching tale which I retold some years ago for submission to an online competition. The voice tone has a trance-voice quality (intended) and the story explores age old themes of identity and impermanence from, [...] 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 [...] “The shortest distance between truth and a human being, is a story.” 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 [...] |
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