And a pair of ears listened

A new book offers advice to its reader

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Picture: And a pair of ears listened.

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Slow down, young reader,
For you are still both young and old
in the ages of your reading.

Slow down at the beginning of a book;
Slow down and listen to the first page.
There is no rush.

Books don't rush; they wait.
Sometimes they wait for centuries,
Anticipating the arrival of the right reader.

So breathe slowly and deeply as you attend to the page;
Deep breathing helps deep listening;
Deep listening helps deep hearing.

Make friends with your book if you can.

Books like to be listened to with both eyes and ears.
But human ears work slower than human eyes;
And human ears need space to listen into.

Look at the page:
There are words and there is white space.
Your mind will add the pictures.

But look how much more white space there is than words.
Most of the page is space.
The space is there for long ears to listen into.

There's a lot of it.
The words are completely surrounded.

But it is not empty space.
The words vibrate quietly
And fill the space with unseen sound.

Ears must pay attention.
Close listening is needed.

What sounds are the words making today?
Listen to the space around them.
Is there a breeze?
Is there a breeze blowing gently
through the leafy woodlands
of words and whispers?
Is there bird song?
Is there a secret rustling in the undergrowth?
Sometimes there is.
And sometimes it can be heard.

How good is your earsight?
Do you know?

Quite a lot of the words on the page are invisible.
Often it is the invisible words which make the most noise.
Only ears can hear them;
Only ears which take the trouble to slow down and listen closely.

There is no rush.
Books don't rush; they wait.
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Picture: Young boy reading book.
Picture: Young girl and dog reading book.
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Hearing Things - The work of sound in literature
Angela Leighton (2018)

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What matters in Jane Austen?

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Christopher Edward Harle (aka Christopher Story) 1938-2010

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Picture: Christopher Edward Harle FRSA (aka Christopher Story)


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On Wednesday 6th June 2012, confirmation came from a well-informed source in Japan that the English investigative reporter, Christopher Edward Harle FRSA (writing monicker - Christopher Story), was murdered in July 2010.

Up to that point, alternative news commentators had held that assassination was only one of three possibilities to account for the abrupt termination of Christopher Story's writing on the web. His last Global Analysis International Intelligence report was dated Thursday 1st July 2010 (text here).

The two other possibilities entertained to explain Story's disappearance were both plausible. The first was that he had voluntarily, or as a result of expedient UK establishment pressures, gone underground to work covertly with British Intelligence on a massive new disclosure about a high-status London connection with American banking corruption which he had uncovered. His "faked death" was operational cover for this.

The second possibility was the obvious one. Christopher Story, an old, overworked and exhausted man, had died naturally as his family announced on Friday 30th July 2010: "Christopher Story died peacefully at home on 14th July 2010 after a short illness." Source here. Or: "Christopher Edward Harle, died 14th July 2010 after a short illness. Much loved husband, father, uncle and grandfather. A private funeral has taken place." Source here.

The mode of Christopher Story's assassination seems to have been poisoning (ref here) of a kind more recently attempted unsuccessfully on Edward Falcone (ref here). However, in Story's case it was a poisoned sandwich rather than poisoned water which was involved. The wet team involved in the Story takedown are thought to have been German. Christopher had received fifteen-to-twenty explicit death-threats in the previous five years.

Among Christopher Story's more important disclosures can be numbered the exposures, post mortem, of British Prime Minister Edward Heath (1970-74), and Roy Jenkins (British Chancellor of the Exchequer 1967-1970 and British Home Secretary 1974-1976), as German agents. These two prominent Europhile politicians were for many decades on the payroll of the Dachau-based DVD (Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst). The traitors were confronted with their exposures by British Intelligence while on their death beds.

The fraudulent construction of the EU money laundry was a particular investigative concern of Story. On Friday 7th March 2008, it emerged (again) that Tony Blair, the UK's Ex-Prime Minister, had been paid $100 million from a secret EU slush fund to secure the UK's compliance in recent European legislative changes signed in Lisbon (Portugal) on Thursday 13th December 2007.

Tony Blair's money was conditional on his prevention of a public referendum on the issue in the UK. Blair agreed to the condition and deposited his $100 million in the Central Bank of Belize between February and March 2006. More details here. The delineations of this EU corruption web were first articulated publicly by Christopher Story in October 2005. More here.

A further European exposure was broadcast by Story following his receipt of several death-threats, in particular one at lunchtime on Thursday 18th September 2008. Christopher Story published a covert subtext to the Madeleine McCann abduction in 2007.

Behind the snatching of four-year-old Madeleine McCann from the Ocean Club Resort, Praia da Luz, Portugal, on Thursday 3rd May 2007, was the Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst and the Portuguese politician José Manuel Durão Barroso, the 12th President of the European Commission. More background here.

Other notable disclosures from Christopher Story to the alternative news community on the web included the background of his tortuous dealings with the shadowy American financier, Lee Wanta of AmeriTrust Groupe (for example here and here), his confirmation of the existence of a Chinese/UK $47 trillion Lien in operation against the US Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Board, and his work with the Pasadena attorney, Al Clifton Hodges, in distributing important texts relating to élite financial corruption in the US White House and Washington DC (for example here).

Christopher Story was an establishment Englishman shaped by his privileged education at the Tudor foundations of Eton College (Berkshire) and Christ Church (Oxford). Coming from a military family, he was a patriotic royalist to the core. This, perhaps, was his major shortcoming as a disinterested investigator. Christopher Story could not be brought to accept that many of the geocriminal financial manoeuvrings swirling around the City of London during his time had a direct umbilical connection to the vested interests of the London Crown Temple, the House of Windsor Nazi continuum, and Queen Elizabeth II of England. More here and here.

On Tuesday 15th May 2012, Edward Harle Limited (Christopher Story's publishing company) entered into Members Voluntary Liquidation. Shay Lettice and Kate Merry of Peters Elworthy & Moore (Cambridge, UK) were appointed Liquidators. Some of Christopher Story's more important web disclosures from the years 2005-2010 are now archived here.



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The UK Michael Shrimpton case

Agenda for disclosure

Living through the pole shift and the global end-time tsunami

Index of blog contents

Perhaps pleasure is holiness

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Picture: St Theresa and the serpent.
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It has been suggested that the experience of consensual sex is the experience of God.

It is doubtful that one can fully understand the experience of God if one does not fully understand the experience of sex.

On this view, the more sex the better, because more sex is more God. And the better we get at sex, the better we get at God.

Feel-good spirituality is feel-God spirituality.
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Picture: Perhaps pleasure is holiness (2).
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Perhaps pleasure is holiness. And perhaps the most important book in the Bible is the Song of Solomon.

A work by the Italian baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) may be relevant here. Sited in an out-of-the-way location in Rome, it is called "The Ecstasy of St Theresa".

A good image of this curious artwork can be found online here. Or, a detail from a slightly different angle here. In full frontal view here. And a two-angle collage is here.


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The saint and his virgin
Sacred sexuality in early Christianity and the inner teachings of Jesus - an article by Walter Last

Sex and spirituality
Healing with sexual energy - an essay by Walter Last

Sexuality, Appreciation, Higher Self
Thoughts on the spirituality of sex by Joyful Spirit (Ted Murray)

Sex and Spirituality
Thoughts on the spirituality of sex by Neale Donald Walsch

The inner wisdom of the Hindu Tantrik tradition
Mike Magee’s UK website

The Biological Basis of Tantric Sex
A physical guide by Catherine Yronwode

What is Tantra?
An essay by Suzie Heumann

Picture: The Path to Divine Sex. Ananda through Tina Louise Spalding.
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Adam and Eve under The Tree of Knowledge
A picture by Ernst Fuchs

Adam Mysticus
A picture by Ernst Fuchs

The Gate
A picture by Rowena Morill

Wet
A picture by Julie Bell

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Picture: Mary Magdalene. The Holy Grail.
Picture: Joan of Arc, Mary Magdalene, Quan Yin, Taiwan and France.
Picture: Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Picture: Ljubljana (Slovenia) on The Goddess Leyline.
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The five images immediately above and their clickthroughs relate to the Goddess, the Black Madonnas, the High Priestess and the ancient Isis mysteries. More background here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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Picture: Goddess energy - the energy the dark forces fear the most.
Picture: Kriya Yoga - An Introduction.
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Is God an idealist?

Meditation - the direct encounter

Living through the pole shift and the global end-time tsunami

Index of blog contents

A New Age prospectus

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Picture: New Age Prospectus. A view through the back of the wardrobe.

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All the important news is good.

The universe is a friendly place which is designed to support us completely.

We are immersed in a benevolent cosmic ecosystem, a God-process, which is uncomplicatedly benign and which nourishes us at every level of our being.

Everything is alive. Everything is intelligent. Everything is conscious.

Everything is changing. Everything is improving. Everything is becoming more.

The universe is richly inhabited with positive beings of light, many of who are far more advanced than we are. Their mission and their joy is to welcome us, nurture us, heal us, protect us, guide us and assist us in our evolutionary return to the internal experience of Godhead.

There is nothing wrong with us; at the level of our core essence we are perfect.

We are held softly in the understanding arms of inclusion. We are comprehensively loved at all times, whatever we think or do.

Everything we need has been thought of by those who know us better than we know ourselves.

Everything we need is immediately available to us if we ask.

All is well and all will be well.


Picture: Prospectus for The New Age. Young woman reading book.

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An emerging spirituality for The New Age of Aquarius

A Prayer for the New Age

Gospel for the New Age

An Invocation for the New Age

Understanding the New Age Children

What is the New Spirituality?

The Art of the New Spirituality

Meditation - the direct encounter

Living through the pole shift and the global end-time tsunami

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The Fairy Garden

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If the old wooden gate is locked on the outside
You won't get into the Fairy Garden.

If you are inside the Fairy Garden already
And the the old wooden gate is locked on the inside
You are probably a fairy.
You can get out whenever you want.

If two human people approach
The gate of the Fairy Garden
From the outside
It will always be locked.

If one human person approaches
The gate of the Fairy Garden
Alone
It will sometimes be unlocked.

If that one human person is carrying a book
The door will not only be unlocked;
It will be open.

Books open doors.

It is quiet in the Fairy Garden
But quiet in a busy way.

You don't see the fairies at first;
You smell them
Or you hear them.

They smell of their friends:
They smell of honeysuckle;
Of lavender; of roses.

They sound like dragonfly wings
Slowed down slightly
To a hum flutter
Of soft petals
Surfing the air.

It is shady in the Fairy Garden
But the sun is shining brightly
Outside the shade.

The sun is yellow sparklers.
The shade is a leaf-dark
Deep green sanctuary
Of unseen whispers
Wing-wise and waiting.

The scent shifts.
The wings waft.

It is best to sit down.

It is best to sit down
With your book
On the old stone bench
By the old brick wall.

Don't worry about the moss
And the lichens.
They have been sat on before
By bringers of books
On sunny afternoons
With the fairies close
But not quite touching.

People often fall asleep here.

When they do
The gate of the Fairy Garden
Closes quietly
And locks itself on the inside
So that you
And the fairies
Will not be disturbed.

There is a tinkle in the corner.

The old fountain works its water
In bubbles and plops
And plashes and splashes
Across moss-covered stones
And leafy liverworts
Glistening with spray
And dripping.

You need to be fast asleep
To feel the fountain.


Picture: "Faerie & Snail" by Liselotte Leroy Eriksson.

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Is this a photograph of a fairy?

Is this a fossil of a fairy?

The Coming of the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle (1922) - full text

William Butler Yeats and The Little People
An overview by Ulrich Magin

The Hidden Side of Things
C. W. Leadbeater (1913) - full text. See, especially, Chapter VI on Nature Spirits.

Clairvoyance and the Fairy Realm
James A. Lefevour

The Real World of Fairies - Dora Van Gelder Kunz
Nancy Bragin

Meet the Fairies
Doreen Virtue

Do you dare enter a fairy ring?
Liz Leafloor


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A dream is a portal

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