Culture
| 26 September 2010
There is an aspect of women’s sexuality that in ancient times was called the sacred obscene, not in the way we use the word today, but meaning sexually wise in a witty sort of way. There were once Goddess cults devoted to irreverent female sexuality. They were not derogatory but concerned with portraying parts of the unconscious that remain, yet today, mysterious and largely unchartered.
| 07 August 2010
We are told that 13 is an unlucky number. It is written that the date Friday the 13th has been taboo since the Knights Templar were arrested and condemned on Friday, October 13th, 1307 and the number 13 has been shunned for centuries.
| 11 July 2010
The sun may be clouded yet ever the sun
Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run
And when into chaos the system is hurled
Again shall the Builder re-shape a new world.
| 19 May 2010
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future.
| 07 May 2010
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and before commercial fertiliser’s invention, large shipments of manure were common cargo.
| 17 August 2009
Vibrations created through drumming travel through the body at a profound level, a cellular level and any trauma that is held in the body is touched, vibrated and loosened, and hopefully if the rhythm is played well, it can be released. It is similar to tapping on a glass of water and bubbles will come up from the bottom and rise to the surface eventually and naturally disappearing through vibration resonance.
Drumming has been used for thousands and thousands of years, and it is probably one of the first instruments, after clap sticks, to be used by human-beings... the original drums were made from stretching an animal skin over a hollow piece of wood to create sounds. Not much has changed to this day.
| 10 February 2009
Dadirri, a special quality, a unique gift of the Aboriginal people, is inner deep listening and quiet still awareness. Dadirri recognises the deep spring that is inside us. It is something like what you call contemplation. The contemplative way of Dadirri spreads over our whole life. It renews us and brings us peace. It makes us feel whole again. In our Aboriginal way we learnt to listen from our earliest times. We could not live good and useful lives unless we listened.
