I just completed a Colour Rose course in Dublin. Ireland is always such a pleasure for me. Partly it is the lovely students, many of whom I feel are as friends as we have met many times over the years, especially Cathleen Morley, my inviter who is a treasure for me. And then there is the place itself, a little grey and sometimes wet, still there is a softness to the place. Ireland is also in my background – both my mother’s parents were born in Ireland. Her maiden name was Devereux. (I remember the first time I spoke to Vicky Wall. It was a phone call and she asked me why I had rung. I said “I am looking for something for my mother.” Years later I was struck – Devereux – Dev Aura.)
Course evolution
Presenting the course this time was quite a journey. As a new course the Secrets of the Colour Rose is still evolving with new ideas and activities arising. I think new courses are a bit like volcanoes: the structure is still fluid as the force of creativity pours in and though it. What began in Osaka in October and continued here is the theme of creating and entering into the space of the Colour Rose as Equilibrium are placed in the centre of the teaching space. We draw the Colour Rose and move through its space. It is a sensitive, respectful and potent experience.
An orange process
The main process in this group was an interaction between orange, Serapis Bey and The Christ. Perhaps this was resonant with the shock that Ireland has experienced and continues to work through following the collapse of its economic boom. We sought to find the way the Master bottles flow through the Colour Rose. At times there were many voices in the group with very different points of view. It felt important to give space to that even though it meant the flow through the content of the course was slowed. In the end a concensus emerged and I felt we had all reached a more complete understanding.
In many ways it was an orange process with the blue teacher position needing to give space to that process – indeed at times I felt I was one of the many (orange) voices rather than the one (blue) voice. The reason I mention this is because of something that happened in the world this same weekend.
Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
It was a wonderful moment when I and my inviter Cathleen heard the news that Aung San Suu Kyi had been released from house arrest. She has been imprisoned for 15 of the last 21 years by one of the most repressive military regimes in the world. She is perhaps the foremost individual representative of repressed democracy anywhere in the world. It is not clear what is behind her release but in any case it is a joyful moment.
The sentence that seems to have been taken as her first sound bite reads
“There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk. People must work in unison. Only then can we achieve our goal.”
It is a sentence that perfectly summed up the way we handled our orange / coral process in the course. Synchronicity at work once again! See Kira Kira – the previous post – for another synchronicity moment.
The Last Rose
The course finished with a poem. One of the students on the course writes poetry and one of of her pieces is called The Last Rose. She offered to read it to the group. As the final quintessence meditation was coming to a close I invited her to read the poem. I found it fitting in a way I cannot explain rationally. You will find the poem in its own special post – the next in the sequence.
