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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.

Evolutionary Relationships: The Seven Requirements Of Love

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Inner Ventures

By Andrew Harvey An Excerpt From “Evolutionary Love Relationships: Passion, Authenticity,and Activism“ It is critical to remember that this crisis we are facing is a crisis in which the sacred powers of love in the human soul are being diverted … Continue reading →

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Masculinity Is Not Our Enemy

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Inner Ventures

Challenging mischaracterizations of masculinity will help us raise healthy boys. Taken from a blog post, Jan 24 2019 in Psychology Today Something has happened to our academic culture–the culture that teaches educators how to teach, therapists how to counsel, and … Continue reading →

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Rainer Maria Rilke – The last Sonnet To Orpheus

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Inner Ventures

Transcribed from a reading by Joanna Macy This poem holds all the gifts of uncertainty, pain and suffering. Yes gifts! Quiet friend who has come so far, Feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be … Continue reading →

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Teenage Trauma of a pretty ‘Bum Boy’.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by Inner Ventures

It has taken me fifty years to reach a point in my life where I feel ready to talk openly about some of my teenage boarding school experiences. Since my late thirties I have tried to address the most painful … Continue reading →

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We Need To Grieve – by Toko-pa

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Inner Ventures

As we enter the Full Moon in Pisces, maybe you can feel that subtle tug, a pulling away from the demands of extraversion, towards the inner life again. These last couple of weeks on the West Coast, living in the thick of … Continue reading →

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Abuse vs Honoring: Degrading Another Person’s Being is Never a Consensual Act

Posted on July 22, 2018 by Inner Ventures

Reproduced from http://www.reginameredith.com: Sexual Abuse by Guest Author – Zeus Yiamouyiannis | July 2018 Consent, even when properly understood and communicated, is never enough to establish a meaningful, trusting, healthy relationship. What exactly do I give you permission to do … Continue reading →

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Sexual Abuse & Trauma relived – Part two

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Inner Ventures

My defences against verbal abuse are strong; walled-off and defended after years of boarding school life, away from the relative safety and protection of family and home. I am numbed, emotionally starved, often lonely and miserable, having been relentlessly taunted … Continue reading →

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Sexual Abuse & Trauma relived – the first of a two-part account

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Inner Ventures

I am settling down in bed, adjusting to the dark, relaxing after my day, and dropping into the beginnings of sleep. Suddenly I hear movement around me as 6 or 8 male figures loom over me, surrounding my bed. I … Continue reading →

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Beauty, Light and Truth

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Inner Ventures

‘We can’t be reminded enough of how much beauty there is all around us—we who are so often too rushed or numbed or worried to see it and to feel the ease that it brings, in beauty, the Invisible Embrace.’ … Continue reading →

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‘WAITING’ by Pierre Theilhard de Chardin

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Inner Ventures

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something … Continue reading →

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