Ray's Blog: July 2018
Sages And Soul Friends
This week I received two messages I share with you.
Sages
'I am exploring the understanding of ‘a company of sages’ which you mentioned to me in our early days in Cape Town, talking to several friends about its meaning, and the role sages play in society – wisdom figures I suppose,...
Elders In Towns
I contribute to Berwick Advertiser's Thought for the Week column. Here is my latest article: <p>
I received a card from a very old friend which said ‘I suffer from the Methuselah tendency’. I decided to investigate this tendency. I learned from the Book of Genesis that Methuselah had...
Anglesey New Monastic Retreats
I am at Llandonna, Ynys Mon (Anglesey), North Wales. Ynys Mon is the traditional bread basket of Wales. Can it now offer the bread of life to a spiritually depleted land? <p>
My host, James Percival, took me by boat around Ynys Seiriol. The English call this nature reserve, with its...
Tides And Seasons
Never before, over twenty five years on Holy Island, can I recall such warm sun every day of a week's retreat. I had rather short notice to shape and sharpen material for this retreat on Tides and Seasons.<p>
Retreatants came from Canada, England, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales. We...
