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Becoming Visible

September 30, 2013

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.” – Allen Ginsberg

Door with lock Meghan Genge

You might not know it to look at me, but I have a real problem with visibility. I’m okay at work – I’ve always been good with a script – but when it comes to the spiritual side of me, I prefer to hide.

Ask me what I do beyond the day job and historically I have stammered something about writing.

In the past, whenever the blog stats started to go up, my posting stopped.

It was never a conscious hiding, but hide I did. Like a small creature curled up in its hole, nose tucked under my tail for security.

Although it is a monstrous cliche, I think that there is a trace of the witch around all of this.  Don’t show yourself to be anything but good and ordinary or you risk being cast out of the tribe – or worse.  But there is also a soft part of me that feels that all of this is rather tender. I don’t want to have to explain or defend myself.

Who knows.

The only one who has suffered is me.

But soon I won’t be able to hide! I am coming out of the woo woo closet and self-publishing my book!  It should be ready sometime in November.

For the next week, I will be in the wilds of the Somerset countryside retreating with Sas and Susannah, but after that, Project: Visibility will begin!  If you are interested in knowing more about my book, please have a look and a listen to chapter one here.  If you are interested in knowing when the book comes out – please sign up to my mailing list.

I’ll SEE you next week!

with love, Meghan xoox

Stories

Starting Down a New Path

October 8, 2012

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions. When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?” – Gabrielle Roth

 

Welcome!  I am so happy that you are here.

 

If you have read my work in the past, you know that it has been about the search for myself and who I was supposed to be in this world.  The story of that search has come over from my old website and is in the archive along the side of the page.

BUT

From this post forward, this is a whole new website.

First of all, I am coming out of the closet and nailing my Sacred/ Feminine/ Seeking/ Woowoo/ Whimsical Writer shingle to the front door.  This site and all it encompasses is now bravely claimed by me!  (I used to blog as megg in an attempt to be a bit selective about who actually saw my freak flag flying.)

Second of all, most of this blog is going to be about stories.

Claude Debussy said, “Music is the space between the notes.”  Well I would argue that the spaces, the pauses, and the moments we spend without words are what give our stories their power.

I’d like to start you off with a story right now.  There will be another one on Wednesday, so I hope you will come again soon.

I am looking forward to our adventure together.

with love, Meghan

xoox

 

Who Do I Think I Am? by Meghan Genge (3:38)

 

 

 

 

emerge, sacred, Stillness

Journey Inwards

September 12, 2011

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition… what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda

 

path light and dark

Over and over, I have asked for guidance. “Where do I go?” “What is the next step?” “What is blocking me?”  Over and over, I have picked up books hoping that they would lead the way.  Going back through them, the bookmark is in exactly the same place each time:  it is holding my place on the page where it said, “Become still, be quiet and listen, or meditate.” I have always stopped there and not listened. But I kept asking the same questions.

The one time I tried to meditate, I sat still for twenty minutes three days in a row.  On the third day I stood up with a whole book in my head.  I wrote the book, but I didn’t meditate again.

For the past 5 weeks, I have been participating in Pixie Campbell’s Soulodge.  I have never – not once – completed an e-course before, but I have just about completed this one.  And do you know what she asked us to do?  Become still. Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards.  This time I pushed through my resistance and actually did as I was told.

And the answers to my questions were all there waiting for me.

Why are the easiest sounding steps the ones that are the hardest to take?

Sit still.  Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards. Meditate.

yes.

P.S. Pixie is hosting another Soulodge from the 31rst of October.  I highly recommend it.