
THE NEW SCRIPTORIUM BLOG
For Gaza Palestine and The Holy Land
Everyone of us carries darkness in us. The hope is for the light to contain the darkness.
A Poem for the Sun at Solstice
‘Who am I that I do not burn when the fire of life is alight in me?
Who am I that I am not blinded by the midday sun shining in me?’
Logic cuts like a switchblade. Love embraces like a mother.
Midwifing the new era of human consciousness.
The Dawning of our Divinity
Life is unfolding a new era for humanity and inviting us into a new way of being. Love is seeking to transform us into its own self.
Scriptio Divina
Medieval women mystics taught themselves scriptio divina, the art of visionary writing, to express the revolutionary new form of visionary love mysticism they had begun to experience around the 12th and 13th centuries. It was a breakthrough to a new genre of mystical literature and writing that was led by women.
The Covenant of Love
‘You must become a sacred vessel for all your sisters and brothers, for all of life on earth.’
Waking up to the Truth of our Divinity
We are all called to be mystics in the ordinary course of our ordinary lives. We are designed to wake up to the truth of our divinity and our inseparable belonging to the whole.
Remembering Who We Are in our Original Beauty
When we cross the River Lethe we forget who we are in our truth.
The World is on Fire. Who will Carry Water?
Wisdom rises at times of crisis but she needs human helpers.
‘Midway on our path in life….’
It’s a universal truth that ‘midway on our path in life’ we are all meant to discover that we are lost. It’s the crossing point to wisdom.
Seeking as a Mode of Being
Seeking meaning is what gives meaning to life. To seek the meaning of life is to be already engaged with the meaning of life.
We Have Lost Our Way
Western culture no longer understands that transformation is the essence of life.
‘The tree which moves some to tears of joy…’
‘The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing in the way.’ William Blake
Welcome Home to Love
Here, there are no outsiders, no ‘me and you’ no ‘I and not-I’ , no ‘in and out’ no difference, no division, no separation, only one beautiful belonging of all in love.
Mysticism comes before Religion
Jesus was the supreme exemplar of the mystic life. He was the mystic of mystics and the archetypal mystic.
An Invitation to Go Within
There is a great hunger out there in the world, and in our own hearts, to find a better way of living individually and collectively.