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For intelligent readers who value authenticity and who enjoy being challenged intellectually & spiritually as we explore the freedom to be human, to realise sacredness, to transgress, and to love. Written by Spiritual Teacher & Author John Siddique
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Two Irish Poems (opens the original)
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A long time ago, I was Writer in Residence across the North of Ireland for The Poetry Society. It was my first visit since I’d lived there on our old family street, Obins Street, in the early 1980s, where I found myself many times thrust against a wall and looking down the barrel of a soldier’s rifle for simply existing. A writer is a dangerous person. We keep and steward notes for the days when we need them, and when the world needs them. The family had lived on John Street before that.I think
Literary and Artistic Catch Up (opens the original)
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Hey NowHere’s a wee literary and artistic roundup for those of you interested in this side of my work. I was thinking it would be good once in a while to share what is happening in my own little writing world and its circle of light. I hope this finds you very well indeed dear readerJohnSome wonderful news in that Watkins Books, which publishes my book Signposts, has been acquired by US publishing house Weiser under its Red Whee
A Painter’s Sky (opens the original)
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Here is a little oddity from the archive that has not seen the light of day for almost 20 years. I was asked to write a mini play for BBC Radio 3 around my experience of working in prisons over the years. I’ve worked in a number of forms within prisons - visiting author, writer in residence, and sacred teacher. Some of you, if you have been regular readers of my books and so on over the years, will have heard me refer to the story that forms the base of this little play. It is largely the true r
What Presents Itself To The Eye (opens the original)
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Hey NowApologies for silences here - It has been a time of not great health this year, and we humans are not content machines to feed algorithms - though you’d never know it these days. Am doing better, really looking after myself yoga and meditation wise and lots of nature. So I got the feeling to make a photowalk and share that with you, in our Photozine Vlog format that we fell upon so beautifully a few months back. There’s no Open Meditation this month, but we’ll be back mid Sept. But if you
Heal Yourself - Poem by Maria Sabina (opens the original)
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This stunningly beautiful poem by wise woman Maria Sabina reminds us to be in our bodies and to heal and fulfil ourselves through the wonders of nature and consciousness. This poem was recorded in the fields around Glastonbury - which is considered to be the heart chakra of the earth - and so I hope this speaks straight into your beautiful heart and soul.LoveJohn
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