Tag Archives: Martin Shaw

Small Gods – Martin Shaw

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://drmartinshaw.com/essays/ Click on the link above for another powerful piece from Martin. Here’s a taste:- ‘Once upon a time there was a lonely hunter. One evening, returning to his hut over the snow, he saw smoke coming from his chimney. … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, awakening, beauty, communication, community, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological issues, embodiment, encounter, grief, healing, immanence, interconnection & belonging, love, Martin Shaw, meaning, metaphor & dream, myth, natural world, non-conforming, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, poetry, political, presence, rewilding, surrender, transformation | Tagged abundance, accountability, affordable counselling exeter, alienation, aliveness, ambiguity, ancestors, animism, anthropocentric stories, anthropocentrism, awareness of story, base line of anxiety, base line of relationship, beholding, being bereft, being broken, bone woman, bones of the tale, bush soul, capacity to devour, community, connection, consumerism, containing paradox, contemporary numbness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, crafting a story, cultural history, earth dreaming, earth intelligence, earth potency, earth resonances, earth speaking, earth speaking through myth, earth wisdom, edginess of allegory, edginess of myth, edginess of story, ego surrender, embodied intelligence, embodied story, ethic of service, fairy tales, fairy tales and the psyche, feeling better, finding true north, finding your way, folk tales, folk traditions, folk wisdom, giving voice, grieving, Grimms folktales, healing, heartfulness, hero myth, holistic intelligence, humility, individuation, initiation, initiatory experience, inner compass, interaction, interbeing, interconnection, inward compass, la loba, listening, living myth, local embedding, love and morality, low cost counselling exeter, magicians, Martin Shaw, meeting paradox, metaphor and emotional meaning, metaphor and psychology, modernity, mystery, myth and earth wisdom, myth and the psyche, myth as the earth speaking, myth of our times, myth of the wound, narrative for our times, need for wildness, new narrative, new story, numbing, old tales, oral culture, oral repetition, oral storytelling, oral tradition, orienting yourself, Otherworld, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, poetic intelligence, presence, privilege, purpose of myth, purpose of story, reconnecting with the earth, relatedness, relationship to the earth, relationship to the land, rewilding humans, rewilding narrative, rewilding story, rites of passage, sacredness, seduction of being broken, seduction of the wound, self initiate, sense of connection, sensual intelligence, shadow, silent retreat, small gods, snare of the wound, social mythology, stilling, stories have us, story for our times, storyteller’s apprenticeship, submission, surrender, true north, turning to myth, use of metaphor, use of myth, use of prophecy, vaster intelligence, vision quest, web of being, web of life, welcoming a story, where do stories come from, where we come from, wholeness, Wild Land Dreaming, wild mythology, wild nature, wilderness fasting, wilderness initiation, wilderness rites of passage, wildness, wisdom of the earth, wisdom of the land, wound as gift, wound as passage, wound as truth, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Martin Shaw on Myth, Love & our Inward Compass

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“By going deeper into myth, I go deeper into love, and when I go deeper into love, innately I find morality; I locate a True North in my own heart.” Martin Shaw Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, consciousness, core conditions, creativity, emotions, internal locus of evaluation, love, Martin Shaw, meaning, metaphor & dream, myth, presence, transformation | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, finding true north, finding your way, heartfulness, inner compass, inward compass, love and morality, low cost counselling exeter, Martin Shaw, orienting yourself, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, presence, purpose of myth, true north, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

A Counsel of Resistance & Delight in the Face of Fear – Martin Shaw

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://medium.com/@schoolofmyth/a-counsel-of-resistance-and-delight-in-the-face-of-fear-91ddb91dc415 Please click on the above for this piece on http://www.medium.com from local storyteller, Martin Shaw. It feels like one of the most important and resonant things the writer of this blog has seen in the last few months. A … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, beauty, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, embodiment, emotions, empowerment, fear, grief, growth, human condition, internal locus of evaluation, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, sadness & pain, surrender, tears, transformation, trust, values & principles, vulnerability, wonder | Tagged A Brief For The Defence, accepting our gladness, activism, affordable counselling exeter, alchemy, aliveness, Anna Akhmatova, attending to your soul ground, bear the unbearable, bearing the unbearable, beauty-making, choosing your battle, choosing your fight, congruence, counsel of delight, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creating beauty, dark night of the soul, deepening understanding, deeper understanding, defence of love, disembodiment, doorway to mercy, dreamworld, earn your name, earning your name, effect of lies, embodied wisdom, embodiment, end of life reflection, engaging with fear, far and manipulation, fear and addiction, fight injustice, fighting injustice, Fisher King, Fisher King’s wound, full life, Galway Kinnell, generosity, giving your gifts, gladness, half life, importance of myth, importance of storytelling, initiation, initiatory work, interior experience, interior world, inward experience, inward world, Jack Gilbert, just keep going, Karma, kindness, knowing when to fight, lies and disembodiment, living fully, love as the great currency, love expressed, love fought for, love given, love is what matters, love received, low cost counselling exeter, making beauty, Martin Shaw, mythic ground, mythic wisdom, mythology, Pablo Neruda, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, prayer maker, reboot of wonder, relationship and community, responding to fear, responding to injustice, restoration, restoration myths, rewildering, rewilding, Rilke, ruthless furnace of the world, seduced by the wound, Shakespeare, soul ground, storytelling, Stubbornness, Sufi mystics, Sufism, surrender, the grandeur of our ordinary tears, transparency, truth as a given, truth telling, unfolding, use of prayer, use of storytelling, Virginia Woolf, walking though hell, WestCountry School of Myth, what defines us, wherever I am folded, wildness, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

The Ecology of Language – Abbie Simmonds

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://dark-mountain.net/blog/the-ecology-of-language/ Fascinating piece by Abbie, about the ways in which language holds and shapes (or can limit/reduce) meaning, personally, collectively, spiritually – and has the power to connect us with our embodied experiencing and with the land. She quotes Wade Davis:- … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, beauty, cognitive, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, external locus, family systems, flow, gratitude, grief, growing up, growth, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loss, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, natural world, objectification, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, spirituality, surrender, sustainability, transformation, trust, vulnerability, wonder | Tagged Abbie Simmonds, abundance, abuse, affordable counselling exeter, aggression, alchemy, alchemy of poetry, alienation, anger, attachment, bereavement, birth, Buddhism, Buddhist spirituality, change, commodification, communication, communication tools, conditions of worth, confusion, connection to the environment, connection with earth, connection with land, consumerism, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cultural history, Dark Mountain, dehumanising, dehumanizing, ecology of language, ecosystem, emotional attachment, empathy, encounter, existential meaning, exploitation, expressing experience, external experience, extreme emotional states, extreme experience, familial history, family history, folklore, forest of the mind, fragmentation, frustration, Gaia, Gilbert Highet, grace, gratitude, grief, grieving, growth, human spirit, I create as I speak, impoverishment of language, In the beginning was the word, internal experience, labeling, labelling, language and history, language and meaning, language and reality, language as a dynamic force, language as alive, language of soul, lexicon of the natural world, living language, logos, longing, loss, love, loving the land, low cost counselling exeter, manipulation by advertising, Martin Shaw, metamorphosis, monoculture language, mortality, mythology, naming experience, narrative, objectifying, over simplification, pain of loss, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, personal history, personal meaning, plant medicine, poetry, power of language, presence, psychiatric, psychiatric labelling, rage, reality, reality perception, relationship ending, replenishment, right speech, Robert Macfarlane, scapegoating, School of Myth, secret names, Self, self concept, self expression, separation, shamanic mythology, spirituality, story, surrender, symbolising, symbolizing, transformation, transience, tribal history, understanding, Wade Davis, word hoard, word wood, words and history, words and meaning, words and power, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yearning | Leave a comment