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Shen Foundation
Now I am back in Scotland we need a new blog for the on-going story:
Please see the last six or so postings at the bottom of the Damanhur Blog for comments around my departure, forming a debrief. More specifically I am now a Volunteer at the Shen Foundation, which is based in Forres and close to but separate from the Findhorn Foundation.
Well! Well!
Presented a project plan at a Shen family meeting, which looked and felt exactly like a Damanhur family Nucleo meeting, right down to the roles and body language. What is going on here? Who needs Italian?
Well! Well! Well!
I have now been asked and accepted a position as Shen Manager! Full time residential. Free board and lodging. Responsible for staff, volunteers, certain projects, admin and finance overview.
And I can still keep my hand in as website designer for my "second" job.
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Xmas Email 2011
As you probably know I came back to Scotland in October, following guidance to do so.
I am now the volunteer Manager of a small spiritual community www.shenfoundation.net that is based on Daoist principles and the promotion of links between East and West (China). Work exchange for free board and lodging.
In some ways Shen is (just?) another mystery school, but with its own language and Qi Gong practices. When I asked in Damanhur about the difference between Qi and Prana I did not get a satisfactory answer. They seem to be similar (or different) levels of the Etheric body which forms the aura and supports the physical form. DH people can seem a little parochial at times?
As for community living, staying here is so just like being back in Aria Nucleo in Damanhur with six of us. Except missing my friends in Italy whilst making new friends in Scotland and seeing old friends here, oh dear!
And now I am here I need to be present to do my work here.
I don't yet have a date for the hernia operation which I have requested, after which I cannot fly for a month or more. And I have run out of money. So my original idea of going to Damanhur for the healing intensive week in February looks doubtful.
I have started work on websites again, see http://www.
Also missing the Damanhur School of Meditation, which of course I had to step out of when I left, unless they launch an International version. But then perhaps that would just dilute the Daoist path?
At times I struggle keeping my energy up, and would like a boost from Falco's prana machine.
XMas Eve Table
We had 20 round the table, not all could fit!