by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) I have always found that physical and spiritual heights go hand in hand. As a boy, in the grey London suburbs, I had to make do with the top floor of the multi-storey car park over the road from my grandmother's house in order to experience this … Continue reading Great Pan and the gap into Elf-land
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) We all know how faiths and ideologies can be corrupted and deliberately turned into a negation of what they were meant to represent. But, it strikes me, the opposite can also happen. In this instance, the change would not be brought about by external hostile action against … Continue reading Renewal from within and beyond
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) "The birthing of humans by the Earth is a universally widespread belief. In numerous languages, we are named 'born of the Earth'". [1] So writes Mircea Eliade in Le sacré et le profane, a book to which I referred in 'Our sacred belonging'. [2] On the surface … Continue reading Gnosticism and the universal mother
by W.D. James For whatever reason, I was recently drawn to pull a book off the shelf I had not read in ten or fifteen years and go back through it. It is Rufus Matthew Jones’ The World Within (1918). Jones was an early twentieth century Quaker scholar who focused on mysticism, especially that of … Continue reading The Inner Light
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