Tag: mission
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Exit Interview
I was given the questionnaire to answer after leaving the Seatemple Inn gathering. Once I was rested, I opened the file and began to respond to it point by point. Q. How would you define the Wunderkabinett project in your own words? Is it a physical/digital collection, an artistic concept, or something else? What inspired…
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Return
It wasn’t until I was on the train home that the ideas were clarified. The feelings that had been touched upon were given words and sorted into their right locations again. I knew the transition had occurred and that life would never be the same again, and that somehow the purpose of discovery had opened…
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Bavarian weather figurines
The Seeker and The Wise One would then be constant presences to provide context, continuity, and a narrative thread. Down through the ages we have engaged in the game of the seeker and the wise one. Once the seeker has found what was her soul’s seeking, unique to her and to her time and place…
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Call on Us
In our sessions together, as the group wrote their accounts, I recalled the warehouse clerk’s advice. “There are many other resources, not collected here, that may be of service to you if you choose to use them.” He took me to the other side of the office area and opened a door that initially appeared…
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Clarifying
The work becomes more clear The only way to navigate through the quantities of information (and disinformation) was to fully embrace the imagination and activate it as a research tool. Imagination was an active component of the process of evaluating and assessing the materials. A conventional narrative would not do the trick, being impossibly restrictive,…
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Glynis Returns
Glynis Nesta, whose story is told in the forest tales, has warned me to watch out for “spiritual ’splaining.” Ever since we met during Attars, I have been asking her what is the way, how to proceed, and how to develop this process. She has not ever answered in words. There is no “spiritual splaining”…
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The Oracle
They were old things. Neolithic. Repurposed. Because no one knew what they had originally been for. This was the oldest of the cabinets. Small, with a dark and carven door. Squat and unprepossessing. Easily ignored. He pointed it out to me, “Have you seen that yet?” I shook my head. He opened the door and…
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Seatemple Inn: Vacancy
As I mentioned my notes were sketchy and unclear. The event itself was more crystalline and real than anything I had ever known before. And I left with the profound understanding that all the work done by researchers over the years was somehow culminated together here in this luminous sphere. Like Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, the…
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Look Again
It was after all the overviews and reading the dossiers, and collecting the repetitious connections that appeared to make sense at the beginning, but then they did not make sense. Somehow, my words had been stolen in such a way that they were flattened. They lost some of the magic that I had thought they…
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Seatemple
Welcome to Seatemple, the bright sign announced as we drove up the curving entryway. It looked like an average motel with a main lodge and a smaller strip of units with parking right in front. He stopped the car, opened the door for me and helped me out. Still a bit unsteady, I held onto…