I lived in Cologne for many years and know the power of that bell. I was in the cathedral once when the organ was being tuned. The binaural beats coming from the low frequencies that were nearly the same as the tuning progressed put me into ecstatic trance...it was magnificent. Thank you, Dougald, for this moving story and for sharing news of this course ♥️🙏🏻
Much enjoyed this reflection, Dougald, thanks. I wondered too where you'd place the centre of heaviness in that Advaya banner? For me it's the opening word, or rather the pairing of that word with spirituality. I often tend to hear in 'contemporary' a kind of policing: 'Of contemporary relevance'. As opposed to just: 'whatever's happening now - all of it'. Contemporary Spirituality reminds me of Steven Jenkinson talking about children of empire as rather like pond skaters - water boatman, as we call them here - sliding around atop a surface tension that seals us off from the depths most often revealed to us as one or another form of death. The paradoxical redemption of falling through that elastic surface, into the body of ... where we are. Sinking more than digging, maybe. But contemporary as a kind of surface tension works for me. Good luck with it, some great company there.
I lived in Cologne for many years and know the power of that bell. I was in the cathedral once when the organ was being tuned. The binaural beats coming from the low frequencies that were nearly the same as the tuning progressed put me into ecstatic trance...it was magnificent. Thank you, Dougald, for this moving story and for sharing news of this course ♥️🙏🏻
And this, Dougald, is why I'm chuffed you're joining the crew. Wonderful words and images as always. 'Words that sound like bells' indeed.
Hi Dougald
Thanks as ever for this
From where is the Illych story sourced? He’s become a key companion in my own journeying
Kindest
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Much enjoyed this reflection, Dougald, thanks. I wondered too where you'd place the centre of heaviness in that Advaya banner? For me it's the opening word, or rather the pairing of that word with spirituality. I often tend to hear in 'contemporary' a kind of policing: 'Of contemporary relevance'. As opposed to just: 'whatever's happening now - all of it'. Contemporary Spirituality reminds me of Steven Jenkinson talking about children of empire as rather like pond skaters - water boatman, as we call them here - sliding around atop a surface tension that seals us off from the depths most often revealed to us as one or another form of death. The paradoxical redemption of falling through that elastic surface, into the body of ... where we are. Sinking more than digging, maybe. But contemporary as a kind of surface tension works for me. Good luck with it, some great company there.