'Dowsing the Source Below'

'It is the other rivers that lie,

Lower, that touch us only in Dreams,

That never surface, we feel their tug,

As a dowser's rod bends to the source below'

Ursula Fanthorpe

The words flow through us, do not cling to them or try to 'understand'. Allow the words to come through all our senses. Hear with the eyes as well as the ears, see with our whole body, let our brain have a rest. Become each sentence, live simultaneously in the relative and the absolute, not travelling back and forth but moving in both at the same time. Let our bodies be the poetry, let poetry be divination. Allow the chi to flow and tingle on our skin. Be the ocean, let our bodies feel the timeless motion of the sea. Then we will hear, then we will see, then we will flow and be in balance. Sacredness is all around us.

In this issue we try to find the sacred in our way of life, not searching the heavens, climbing Jacobs ladder but in Mathew Fox's words, dancing Sarah's circle. Trying to be in harmony with our daily lives and the people around us is an enormous task and the road very slippery. In Sufi View of Nature, Ayesha tells us of the help and comfort she has gained on her personal journey, living her sacredness. We explore the sacredness of the inner essence of all life in 'The Sacred in Hoeomeopathy' taking us back to the source of all creation. Michelle gives us a sharp lesson in fantasising, thinking we can buy spirituality in 'new age' icons as we can buy most things in this most materialistic society. Well there is sacredness in laughter and crying, in our next door neighbor, our friends as well as our enemies. In our article on 'Betrayal' we can recognise the strong emotions that can hold us back from harmonious relationships with our fellows, and in the story of the well meaning volunteer we discover that just wanting to help our fellow humans is not always enough. It takes planning and hard work at ground level before we even start out on our journey to the heavens.

Yet we still need to dream as well, the trick is the living in the relative and absolute at the same time. 'A piece of cake'!

We have included the editorial'The Moose' from our sister magazine 'The Muse' which seemed to fit our theme so well and is a poignant reminder of the knocks and blows we can encounter along the way.

Alex Cambell, Editor, The Weaver