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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.

The Yellow & the Purple

Terraced olives hug the mountain sides snaking their contours in ordered lines. Dense woodland wraps around these groves, still gripped by dormant winter, impersonal, withholding and silent.   Chromium yellow eye-fulls of joy, cascading waterfalls of electric sunlight light up … Continue reading

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The Soul and Voice Dialogue Selves

The ancient idea of the anima mundi, the world soul. This is how Plato put it: Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence … a single visible living … Continue reading

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Betws-Y-Coed a name that conjures. by Paul Swatridge

We headed north towards Anglesey by car and came to a wild and beautiful spot where two rivers meet. I had never experienced anything like it. I was on a family holiday in Wales, age 9. My memory is now … Continue reading

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Poem – Late Spring

Late Spring – by Paul Swatridge The tall trees shimmer. The fresh canopies of green shine translucent against the azure blue above. Where the woodland floor was dappled with colour and light a sombre mood now sits. Celandines violets and … Continue reading

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Mother Earth, Nature’s Child

Mother Earth, Nature’s Child – by Paul Swatridge The River Wriggle was its name. Snaking through meadows beneath whitebeam and alder, it babbled over shingle beds speaking to noone. Its still pools lazing under earth banks and tree roots; dark, mysterious … Continue reading

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What is Voice Dialogue

The Psychology of Selves, was developed in the 1980s by therapists Hal & Sidra Stone, who started to dialogue the different voices in each other as a way of gaining clarity around difficulties in their own relationship. They soon realised … Continue reading

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Wild One

WILD ONE by Paul Swatridge (Record of a dream, written on a train, given to a stranger) I live, I am alive, but forget to remember this. So now, knowing it, I celebrate, defying the numbness of my other life. In … Continue reading

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I am clearing a space

I am Clearing a Space by Morgan Farley I am clearing a space – here, where the trees stand back. I am making a circle so open the moon will fall in love and stroke these grasses with her silver. … Continue reading

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Change

Change by Paul Swatridge                1990 I stand by the brook and listen to water rushing under the bridge. I step into the darkness beyond the street lamp’s reach and hear the restless sighing … Continue reading

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Inner Voices – The Protector

Our personality starts to grow from the first responses we make to the outside environment. Our parents’ intentions are to keep us safe, but we are extremely vulnerable as little babies and inevitably we experience moments of fear or even … Continue reading

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