Thursday 23rd February
ARTicle Space, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Margaret Street, Birmingham
4pm Phillip Henderson discusses Vertical Music and The Drone
5-7.30pm Open mic & collective music making
All welcome
Our next priorities have been to make the Temple more comfortable and to spend time there. A supporter donated a sofa and some chairs, and we’ve been bringing in books and musical instruments.
We started making a list of more things to bring, and also noting down some of the discussions we had. Someone very helpfully added a poster after we mentioned we were after more things to put on the walls. If you stand in front of it and focus on the Eternal Drone, you can feel your Third Ear opening.
As the Temple becomes more comfortable, people are starting to use it as part of their daily lives, as a common room or meditation space: relaxing in the cushioned space, studying the Eternal Drone, discussing possible future activities, and playing instruments.
We’ve started to set challenges for existing and potential Receivers, inspired by things that the Drone calls us to do. We hope that other people will be called to set more challenges as well, to test the dedication of The Receivers and help us to grow.
This week, Receivers were drawn by the Eternal Drone to a space on Margaret Street, Birmingham.
Through sacred listening, we are finding a series of instructions for how to use this place, to bring people together and to spread understanding of our principles.
The first protocol tells us to establish the Temple, so we placed sacred materials in the circle for a day to meditate upon them.
When we returned the next day, a spirit totem had appeared, watching over the Temple, and providing an olfactory richness.
We focused on a warm part of the room that it led us to, and that seemed particularly full of the Drone. This seems initially suitable for private relaxation and opening of the Third Ear.
If you find the Receivers Temple of the Sacred Drone, do come in, take some time to open yourself up to the Drone, and let us know how you would like to use the space yourself.
We will be putting up some possibilities that we have already discovered, and of course, as always, let us know how you get on.
Performance of the Imbolc ritual by Samekhmem at BOYD 5, Bull’s Head, Moseley.
Wearing the ceremonial furs, Samekhmem marked themselves with the sacred sun using oat milk and sage ash, lit the seven candles of purification and set the sand timer next to the Ark of Silence. Channeling the eternal drone at this important time, mid way between the solstice and the vernal equinox, calling upon all of the power of the sun to bring forth the potent energy of the spring brings with it great peril. The resonating power of Imbolc provided a hot, rising, drone power to the ceremony that circled up beyond the control of all who were gathered together. The force of the drone caused great consternation but was a necessary adjunct to the approach of Timewave Zero. Samekhmem continue to transform the dark emanations from Timewave Zero into sonic affirmation of The Eternal Drone.
Audiovisual documentation to follow shortly.
