Archive for May, 2008
Awakened Life Group: Weekly Meditation & Conscious Conversation
Anyone who is sincerely interested in spiritual awakening and the evolution of consciousness is welcome to attend.
We will meet at 7.30pm on Fridays at the Roundhouse at Quinta Cabeca do Mato. We will finish around 10.15pm.
Please arrive in silence and sit down. When everyone has arrived we will meditate together with a little guidance for about 45mins. After the meditation there will be a short break also in silence. Then we will gather back in a circle and engage in a specific form of conversation as a spiritual practice/exploration.
By meditating together in a circle we generate a powerful field of unified consciousness and intimacy with each other. This is not dependant on knowing each other personally beforehand. We fall into the universal dimension of pure being in which we are all one. This connection provides a new foundation for communication. We endeavour to leave our habitual thinking/reacting personality behind and only speak from this depth and wholeness. It means we are willing to open our hearts and share our deepest experience. If we are really interested and listen and respond to each other from this place, amazing, magical and beautiful things can happen as we go beyond our habitual frames of reference.
This group is not about trying to solve any problems or about healing our traumas. It is about going on a journey together in which we transcend our personal concerns and history.
For the gathering to genuinely come alive we have to be willing to take a big risk together…
The risk is to let go of the personality, let go of the familiar, let go of everything you think you know about who you are, how you operate, about what you need to feel safe or participate in a group, about what groups are and how groups work. Let us abandon it all for this brief window in time and dare to come together in real vulnerability and transparency. I’m going to ask you to join me in the unknown. And what is the unknown? I guess we will all find out when we meet there!
My purpose in initiating this group is to provide a time and a place in which people can experience the True Self, the Oneness that we all are, that ordinarily remains hidden beneath the veils of our rigid ideas, identities, fears and desires. That Self is already originally Free. That Self is the wellspring of Love. It is the part of you that is already only interested in the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. It is interested only in Awakening and Evolution. All that is required to experience and express this True Self is to be completely true to the deepest, highest part of your experience…and to ignore everything else! I look forward to welcoming all who are interested in living an awakened human life.
Love Pete
Please call 966333187 if you have any questions
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Schist House Renovation at the Quinta
The water tank is completed and the house is well on its way!
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Here is Juliano proudly introducing his handiwork!
We are at the quinta everyday now planting and clearing the land and it’s such a joy to look up and see our house appearing before our very eyes stone by stone! The original house was 2 rooms, one up and one down. The original room upstairs is now our living room (sala) and downstairs is the kitchen. We have added an extension on, the top room is our bedroom and the bottom is the bathroom with a little wood storage/dog house space next to it.
The whole house will be in slate stone. Where there are bricks (on the new section) it is being stone faced. The walls on the original part had to be raised as the bottom floor was very low. These walls are being done all in stone.
We are getting estimates on the solar hot water system, wood burner central heating system and the general solar system. Then all that’s left is getting the water pump and the pipes in place!
The pictures will tell the rest of the story! If are looking for a builder we can wholeheartedly recommend Eusebio Santos and his crew. They are efficient, the price is good, they are great guys to have on ones land and they do a great job.
Stay tuned, will post more photos as the job continues!
Cheers,
Cynthia
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After plentiful and much needed rain in April the dry stream is now gushing pure mountain water across the Quinta and over our waterfall. It is a wondrous sight to behold and also wondrously bracing to take a dip in!
Down from this waterfall which borders the Project stretches the amazing gorge of Fraga da Pena. It means Gorge of Pity in Portuguese, which must have been some medieval morbid Catholic interpretation of this gorgeous gorge, so we are renaming it Fraga de Alegria or Gorge of Joy!
It was voted one of the top 10 beauty spots in Portugal recently and after the rains it is echoing with raw elemental splendour.
There is something about waterfalls I find completely captivating. If Nature is a mirror then the rushing waters and explosive fronds of incandescent spray evoke the Uncontainable Mystery of Life in all its wild glory…
Crashing clear cascades
Seething dance of the cosmos
Freefalling abandon
White light
Ever mounting crescendo
Fount of Life
Bestowing
Becoming
Shouts I AM…
Forever ungraspable
Forever flowing
Forever felt in the Soul
May you find the fount of freefall!
Love Pete
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