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Kit Constable Maxwell's Website
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For Art, Travel and Photography. Lectures & slide shows. Kit Constable Maxwell and Dr Raymond Bird. Off road travels in Wales, May 2016. For report click here. Kit is an operational Member of Wessex 4x4 Response Group. Pyrenees revisited - click here. Photo Safari in Serra da Estrela, Portugal May 2013. Off road travels in an unspoilt contry - click here. Off roading in the Pyrenees, May 2012. Castles and Kasbah's in the Draa Valley, Morocco 2011. Lords of the Atlas revisited - click here. Moroccan trave...
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The Light Stone: October 2012
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Thursday, October 18, 2012. The Precious Human Body. In Buddhism, there is an analogy of how difficult it is to attain a Human Birth. Or imagine that a small ring is floating on the ocean. On the bottom of the ocean there lives a special turtle that surfaces briefly only once every hundred years. The probability of its head surfacing within the ring is pretty slim, but far greater than the chance of obtaining a precious human body. By Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche.
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The Light Stone: The Net of Nets . . .
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Saturday, January 16, 2010. The Net of Nets . . . I would like to suggest that these “borderline phenomena” – are usually ignored, because of the condensed, nuclear space in which they often gestate. Put in other terms, these borders, or liminal states are ignored by the monolithic beams of our conscious mind. Small Things are overlooked, and the Gods of Small Things – are driven to extinction. Century gives us an almost identical . . . Everywhere on earth the...
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The Light Stone: Social Transformation
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Monday, October 3, 2011. Monday, 03 October 2011. 8220; . . the Uranus-Pluto. Conjunction of the 1960s and early 1970s, coincided with that volcanic eruption of revolutionary and emancipatory impulses, accelerated historical change, social and political turmoil, and heightened creativity and innovation in all spheres of human activity that has shaped the global zeitgeist ever since.”. And on the present alignments, he writes:. I was delighted, as this Hexagram...
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The Light Stone: Gye Nyamehu
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Thursday, November 12, 2009. The PRESENCE OF GOD. Ikon is an Adinkra symbol called Gye Nyame. Which is a symbol of the omnipresence and omnipotence of god. It comes from an Akan aphorism that can be translated:. 8220;This great panorama of creation dates back to time immemorial: no one lives who saw its beginning and no one will live to see its end, except God”. Http:/ www.adinkra.org/htmls/adinkra/aya.htm. 8220;THE PERFECT ANIMATE BEING. April D. DeConick.
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The Light Stone: March 2015
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Saturday, March 7, 2015. THE FORCES OF ILLUSION. And the god, perceiving that his flowery stroke had failed, said to himself: He does not notice even the arrow that set the sun aflame! Can he be destitute of sense? He is worthy neither of my flowery shaft, nor of my daughters: let me send against him my army.”. 160; But lo! Take not upon thyself this vain fatigue! Put aside thy malice and go in peace? Vaghosha, The Buddhacarita. The Sacred Books of the East.
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The Light Stone: May 2015
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Sunday, May 3, 2015. Sunday, May 03, 2015. In an article published in 1994, Prof. Robert Thurman writes:. 8220;If you’re a twentieth-century teacher, who can say what the twenty-first century will want? Winter 1994, pp. 7-16. ]. His Holiness the Dalai Lama writes:. Rider, London, 1997. ]. This is a very important point. Do we have a vision of what we would like the beautiful garden of the future to be? 8221; How many people care? Recently while reading the wri...
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The Light Stone: Why Luxlapis?
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Transformations of Culture and Spirituality. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. What are the Aims and Objectives of The Luxlapis Project? Light – Lapis. Stone Thus one could say a Stone of Light. Is the Diamond - which cuts through everything. Plus the Diamond Path, is equivalent to Tibetan Buddhism, known also as Vajrayana – again this can be called The Vehicle [or Path] of The Diamond Sceptre. So Luxlapis contains some of these meanings. The Interface between CULTURE and SPIRITUALITY. The unifying characteristic...
