Author Archives: Inner Ventures

About Inner Ventures

Evolutionary Counsellor facilitator and guide on a spiritual path. Craftsman in wood, creative writer, environmentalist & change agent. This blog is my way of promoting my skills, ideas, concerns for the planet, creative work, spiritual searches and philosophy of life in a public forum.

Willing to Experience Aloneness by Jennifer Wellwood

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START CLOSE IN

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third Continue reading

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Sketches of a 1950s Childhood

The following is an excerpt from the book I am currently writing titled: It’s Been A Long Time Coming Rooks nesting in the elm trees soar in the wind above me as I roam freely round the farm. My Dad … Continue reading

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Love as a verb By Nimue Brown One of the ideas that Pagan author Halo Quin has brought into my life recently is the notion of love as a verb. She’s been talking about this around self care especially. Many of … Continue reading

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Filling The Hole – by Ardhan Swatridge, Nov 2022

“We spend our beautiful, utterly singular lives on making more money, to buy more things that feed but never satisfy.  It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging … Continue reading

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The Meaningful World – by Charles Eisenstein, Nov 2022

Hi readers, I’d like to share some excerpts from an interview I did with Tam Hunt. Full interview here. I really appreciated Tam’s questions; some of them got me to speak of things I rarely touch in most interviews. It … Continue reading

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Finding my writer’s voice – A poem

How predictable,those stuck patternsploughed deep.Pathways fashioned from fearin a fuddled brainfounded on the dull painOf a child’s poor parenting.Reductive habitsthat keep me smallStuck, shut tighton a blank page,With a NO of defeat. Until….. With a YES to writefrom flexibility and … Continue reading

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CONNECTION

When your life feels too smalland your path becomes lonely,those around you are strangersand facing tomorrowis a mountain to climb,Remember the small things;the face of a babya break in the cloudsa flower in full bloom.Can you find somethingin your imperfect … Continue reading

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Let This Darkness be a Belltower – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Loss Has Already Transfigured Your Life Into An Altar

You will lose everything – Jeff Foster You will lose everything. Your money, your power, your fame, your success, perhaps even your memories. Your looks will go. Loved ones will die. Your body will fall apart. Everything that seems permanent … Continue reading

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