The Open Door
Belinus#1: The Scottish Border Lands
Part One
Monday March 20th, this year. 2.50pm. My wife, Martha, and I catch the train heading south. In our case, 'south' means Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders.
There is a reason for going right now. It's the last chance before much of Scotland becomes too expensive for us to stay there. Until November, most likely.
. . .Blog#51: Cosmic Twins Trilogy - Part Three
Part One
Scotland is a strange place. Romantic, mysterious, mystical; a land of atmosphere and atmospheres, in constant motion; a home to landscapes of breathtaking beauty. The glens, hills, and mountains are ancient, and it doesn't require any exception gifts of sensitivity to sense this, to feel in touch with the depth and . . .
Blog#50: Cosmic Twins, Part Two
Part One
The Cosmic Twins are everywhere: the divine pair, just one small sweet breath away from eternity, from Source itself. They turn up time and again in alchemy; they are in genuine Tantra. They are in every cell of our body - it's just that we have a penchant for amnesia, or simply not wanting to know.
As twin . . .
Blog#49: Cosmic Twins
Part One
It was in November 2022 that I purchased a copy of 'The Kundalini Guide' by Bonnie Greenwell. It is a fairly short book, but one of the more widely-read ones on the theme of kundalini written by a westerner.
Bonnie's approach is eclectic enough, but tends towards Vedanta. It is not among the texts on . . .
Blog#48: Getting off the Not-So-Merry-Go-Round
Part One
During the early spring of 2020 David Icke re-entered my life big-time, and promptly proceeded to save it.
Over the course of the previous few weeks, vast numbers of people had been reduced to stress, anxiety, panic and fear, finding themselves terrified to touch a tin of beans in the supermarket for fear of it . . .
Blog#47: The Milk Shake Epiphany
Part One
I live in a pretty quiet and pleasant part of town; that's one of the reasons I'm here. Estate agents once referred to it as 'a much sought-after area', though whether they continue to do so I don't know, I haven't checked. What was once a neighbourhood bordering fields and countryside is now surrounded . . .
Blog#46: Hope
Part One
During the summer of 2017 I paid a visit to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. From Scotland it's not so simple as from London, where you take a deep breath, squeeze into a high-altitude cattle truck provided by Ryanair, and two hours later thankfully disgorge into the sun-and-sand of the Mediterranean. For me, it . . .