Reclaiming the Sacred Cow, Bo

I am watching a sweetly beautiful film right now called “Dorset Days: the life of Longhorn Jim” – how lovely is the Bride Valley and how much do I long for it. Jim has a priest bless his herds, and uses this beautiful old prayer from the sublime Carmina Gadelica, a ‘milking croon’. It is [...]

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The Rude Man of Cerne

I’ve just noticed that the Cerne Abbas Giant, better named the Rude Man of Cerne, is looking a little worse for wear and his powers are apparently fading. This is a very serious matter. Couples have been making love on him and women wanting a baby have slept on his very obvious parts for eons. [...]

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Visioning

Some of the people I work with don’t like the word ‘vision’ – along with words like ‘mission’ and ‘empowerment’ they eschew using it, believing it to have religious undertones. It must be to do with my meta programme – but I love it and use it all the time!
I use ‘visioning exercises’ a lot, [...]

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A sore sea longing in my heart

I feel so land-girt these days… its odd that so many of us live away from the sea and yet it calls to us like a primordial force, reminding us of our fear to be far from it, our sustainer, our familiar, the flat horizon always with us, glittering, moonlit, moving or monochrome. Those of [...]

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