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An end to darkness

Posted on December 22, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

I should have known really… the folklore, like a haddock to the face once you spot it, TELLS you!! But I wasn’t listening, and had to go the long way around… like 10 years searching up hill and down bleedin’ … Continue reading →

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The Watcher’s dilemma

Posted on October 1, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

I am Watcher. I’m in a high place, yet remain shadowed by brooding mountains that further darken a black sky. The gale flattens a campfire in front of me, casting all warmth to the western horizon. A tent-like structure behind … Continue reading →

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A funny thing happened on the way home.

Posted on May 1, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

It was an oddly euphoric moment of complete clarity. The sun, low, casting great shadows across the landscape; highlighting features normally hidden from view. The first flowers of Spring, punctuating in yellow, the intense verdant of the season. The sky, … Continue reading →

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Shell shock

Posted on April 17, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

Sometimes, dreams come simply; any symbolic element of relevance bubbling readily to the surface. Some wake you laughing; with ludicrous images arising from apparently disassociated elements and ideas. Yesterday morning’s was neither. Myself and a stranger are somewhere in a … Continue reading →

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The muses are lying on a beach somewhere…

Posted on April 5, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

In the name of the wee man… You’d think, having been away so long, all the pent-up posts would come flooding out. It’s not like I haven’t been writing, either. For the last three weeks I’ve been sitting around in … Continue reading →

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Spring Awakening

Posted on March 11, 2018 by A Misanthropic Bear

Hoo. Had no idea I’d been gone so long… I’ve been away. Not in the “absent from” sense, other than the normal-for-the-time-of-year inability to feel genuinely invested in very much beyond the need for hibernation, but, rather, in the more-there-than-here … Continue reading →

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Call of the Summer lands

Posted on December 5, 2017 by A Misanthropic Bear

Caught in this stream whilst falling asleep under last night’s “mackerelled moon”. An oddly, out of season, theme which made little sense till the title came at the last. ~~~ I thought I heard you call last night. Maybe it … Continue reading →

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Reining in the kids…

Posted on November 21, 2017 by A Misanthropic Bear

Dearest Children of Horus, I’m laying the line down here, as it’s difficult to know where else to put it; and, frankly, to leave the current situation to find its natural end is no longer tenable. You mess with dark … Continue reading →

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Shape-shifting (Part 1)

Posted on August 25, 2017 by A Misanthropic Bear

This series of posts are based on the outline of an exploration session presented at The Silent Eye  (a modern mystery school) “The Feathered Seer” weekend in 2017. Whilst I have attempted to retain some of the flavour of the … Continue reading →

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Unexpected exorcism

Posted on August 22, 2017 by A Misanthropic Bear

Odd. The little things we take for granted. The sanctuary, provided within the walls of our own homes; safe, warm, clean. Yet do we ever pay enough attention to spiritual cleanliness thereof? If we fail to cleanse a space, at … Continue reading →

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