http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog The Deep Hearts Core provides spiritual direction for the spiritual journey using Irish mythology, Irish and other mystical poetry and spiritual practices. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 ©Tony Cuckson radiate@anamcaraexperience.org (Tony Cuckson) radiate@anamcaraexperience.org(Tony Cuckson) Spirituality 1440 The Art of Loving, Spiritual Direction for the Journey into Love, The Secret Language of Mystical Poetry Deep Hearts Core Anamcara Experience provides spiritual direction for the spiritual journey using irish mythology, irish and other mystical poetry and spiritual practices Tony Cuckson Tony Cuckson radiate@anamcaraexperience.org No no http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog 144 144 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/finding-the-still-point-centre-2.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/finding-the-still-point-centre-2.html#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:41:22 +0000 Anam cara http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=187 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/finding-the-still-point-centre-2.html/feed 1 33:51 W. B Yeats - My Spiritual Director As an Irish mystic storyteller I adore the poetry of W. B. Yeats.nbsp; Let me say at the outset ... W. B Yeats - My Spiritual Director As an Irish mystic storyteller I adore the poetry of W. B. Yeats.nbsp; Let me say at the outset this interest in W. B Yeats. is in no way academic. I never set out to find a connection to W. B. Yeats and his poetry.nbsp; I never set out to find a connection to the poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi but I did.nbsp; These wonder poets came into my life at a time of threshold.nbsp; Each appeared in my life at the time of my return to my homeland of Ireland..nbsp;nbsp; In April of 2000 my sister Mary who was four years older than myself died of cancer.nbsp; This lead me to question what I was doing with what the mystic poet Mary Oliver calls "this one glorious life that you have been given."nbsp; The answer to that question was that I wasn't doing what I wanted.nbsp; I wasn't living gloriously.nbsp; I was playing safe as an accountant working for myself.nbsp;nbsp; I made the decision (along with my partner Bee) to return to Ireland to develop what we would call A Still Point Centre.nbsp; Little did I know then that all hell would break loose.nbsp; Since my return I have been supported and amazed at the beauty and invitation from the poetry of W. B. Yeats.nbsp; He keeps asking me deep hearts core questions that I attempt to share and sometimes avoid.nbsp;nbsp; One key aspect of this mystic search at the deep hearts core is the search for peace.nbsp; It is the peace that Jesus Christ refers to when he says, "My peace I give to you but not as the world gives you."nbsp; This peace in no way requires that you believe in Jesus Christ.nbsp; Belief in Jesus Christ must be the direct inner experience of Christ Consciousness.nbsp;nbsp; W. B. Yeats in his poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree invites "And I shall have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow." I, as a storyteller, am in some little way a peace pilgrim.nbsp; I walk this world in search of what it is I aspire to know and be and give.nbsp; This peace pilgrimage is inner.nbsp; It is a journey into stillness and silence that is at the deep hearts core.nbsp; Out of this stillness arises what is called right action.nbsp; This is Love in action. Gangaji says this beautifully when she writes in "The Diamond in your Pocket - discovering your true radiance."nbsp; She writes "It is possible to trust that right action can come from the unknown stillness of your being.nbsp; You have learned not to trust this stillness, because you are afraid you will just lie on the couch all day.nbsp; And you might just do that.nbsp; Your body is probably exhausted anyway." We don't have to know what the plan is, but we do have to be true to peace: to take responsibility for choosing to over look what is already at peace.nbsp; We have learned how to armor, to lie and to protect ourselves. Yet deeper, closer than any strategy we have learned, the peace remains.nbsp; It is here right now."nbsp;nbsp; All mystics invite you to know the now of this peace.nbsp; Except that Gangajii says you do not trust that out of the stillness, the apparent emptiness of no thing comes everything.nbsp; That, at the centre of such a peace is a power that knows what needs or needs not to be done. As W. B. Yeats rightly says in the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree,nbsp; "for peace comes dropping slow." You have to value it.nbsp; You have to have direct experience of it.nbsp; You have to have the commitment to make it real in your life and to have it radiate within your life situation. Pay attention to what your culture invites.nbsp; Our Western culture teaches us to be afraid of silence.nbsp; Thus it holds tight the keys to the dwelling of peace but not the indwelling of peace that allows you to know safety, sanctuary and Love.nbsp; You have to become an island of calm.nbsp; You have to be able to attune yourself to listen to the peace of the infinite peace.nbsp; This peace is at the still point centre of your deep hearts core. On this journey of the peace pilgrim you learn that pe... Spiritual,Direction,Podcast,,celtic,spirituality,,spiritual,storytelling Tony Cuckson no No http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/176.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/176.html#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:57:16 +0000 Anam cara http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/176.html http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/176.html/feed 0 00:01:01 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="285" caption="Meeting at the Deep Hearts Core"][/caption] Have started a podcast called the Deep Hearts Core. This will be a weekly podcast including ... [caption id="" align="alignright" width="285" caption="Meeting at the Deep Hearts Core"][/caption] Have started a podcast called the Deep Hearts Core. This will be a weekly podcast including heart stories, heart song and mystical poetry The first podcast is called Stairway to Heaven and looks at the word you need to ensure that you get what you came here in this world to be. In the second podcast you are told the wondertale about the Tuatha de Danaan - the beautiful people who were driven under ground.nbsp; This is a metaphor for many of us who live our lives judging our success or failure. Have a listen.nbsp; You will need broadband to download these files.nbsp; Simply click on the podcast button below to immediately here this invitation to buying a stairway that takes you to that place of unimagined beauty and creativity - your deep hearts core. nbsp; Metaphor,and,Meaning,,Myth,and,Personal,Meaning,,celtic,spirituality,,mystical,poetry,,spiritual,storytelling Tony Cuckson no No http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/money-changing-in-the-temple-of-the-divine.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/money-changing-in-the-temple-of-the-divine.html#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:07:45 +0000 admin http://anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=144 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/money-changing-in-the-temple-of-the-divine.html/feed 1 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/what-if-god-were-one-of-us.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/what-if-god-were-one-of-us.html#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:59:15 +0000 admin http://anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=120 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/what-if-god-were-one-of-us.html/feed 2 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/the-sacred-wisdom-of-burning-your-boats.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/the-sacred-wisdom-of-burning-your-boats.html#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:19:23 +0000 admin http://anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=88 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/the-sacred-wisdom-of-burning-your-boats.html/feed 0 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/bards-tales-free-your-spirit.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/bards-tales-free-your-spirit.html#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:29:02 +0000 admin http://anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=70 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/bards-tales-free-your-spirit.html/feed 0 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/its-a-myth-no-wonder.html#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/its-a-myth-no-wonder.html#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:23:20 +0000 admin http://anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/?p=68 http://www.anamcaraexperience.org/anamcarablog/its-a-myth-no-wonder.html/feed 0