#cloistered

[vox-anglosphere]

Muckross Abbey

[hibiscusbabyboy]

Cloistered by Arcana Wildcraft

(Dividers by @pixopix )

Requested by @princesspineberry

[sandimexicola]

Cloistered

Midjourney prompt: symbolic, sandi. The scene, technology, darkness, center, ethereal figure, introspection, images --v 6.1

[agirlnamedbone]

ph. Augustin D’Boyer Agen Carmelite Nuns/Meal Time 1904

[berrycampbell]

COMING NEXT. “Ida Kohlmeyer: Cloistered (Paintings and Sculpture 1968-1969)” at Berry Campbell, March 19 - April 18, 2020. #idakohlmeyer #kohlmeyer #kohlmeyercircle #cloistered #1960s #neworleansartists #nola #multimediaart #installationart #soloexhibition #5womenartists #2womenartdealers #womenshistorymonth #artgalleries #nycart #chelseagalleries #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9spDe-F5Jp/?igshid=wo3u7301q8e4

[johnhmcintosh]

CLOISTERED?

JOHN MCINTOSH

 Where Attention focuses … there is an ‘expansion’ that follows the Intention ‘of’ that Attention.

 For thousands of years spiritual aspirants have used cloistered environments where austerity was self imposed to ‘narrow’ their attention so that a one-pointed focus on Truth could more easily be maintained. Meditation has the same Intension, funneling thought down to a single focus, in many cases – the breath. Ultimately, Liberation or Self Realization is the Intension … basically, the full and continuous Awareness of the SELF, your One and ‘only’ Real identity.

 Look at what is occurring macrocosmically throughout the world at the moment [from early 2020]. The slumbering God-SELF, the sleeping Beauty YOU Are, has been kissed and ‘is’ Awakening. This vignette of ‘cloistered’ living that most of humanity feels has been ‘imposed’ upon it is really as aspect of that Awakening … a ‘taste’ of the focus required to ‘remember’ Who YOU Really Are. It matters NOT ‘how’ this has been brought about … that is simply the ‘story’ being enacted in the Grand Dream you are Awakening ‘from’.

 At a deep level, the rapidly Awakening God-SELF has orchestrated this ‘lock down’ as an integral part of the Great SHIFT that is taking place.

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[thebeautifulcatholicfaith]

Philadelphia’s Pink Sisters have prayed nonstop for 100 years

[snp-pttr-blog]

Fic Rec: Cloistered by Sioban Park.

Title: Cloistered.

Author: Sioban Park.

Status: Complete.

Word Count: 30k+

Summary: During fifth year, Harry is stunned to discover that in a previous life he was a novice in a monastery...and that Snape was there with him…

Themes: Religion, corruption. Time travel? I don’t know what that was.

Warnings: Monks and novices having sex. Almost non-consensual sex by blackmail. Chan.

Genre: IDEK. Suspense and romance per the author.

Narrative: I tend to like a balance between practical and detailed. And this one meets the criteria. There is a bit of suspense in the story, and I think Park does a terrific job conveying the anxiety, the uncertainty, the fear and ultimately hope for the future.

Brief Character Breakdown: Severus’ is of noted importance here because, being a monk, I would think his approach to dealing with people would change a little than if he was a professor. And it is quite obvious here. He is not soft, amenable and a ray of sunshine, but the grit and the darkness are absent. Instead his sombreness and stoicism lie in his predilections.

Harry is a darling here, of vulnerable nature but still stupidly brave and kindhearted.

Want to give a special shout out to the way Sioban Park wrote Lucius Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore. Complex, amazing characters on both ends of the spectrum.

My Personal Opinion: There is just something so, so so..... fascinating about religious people getting up to unsavory acts. But outside of that, I like the way the author dealt with homosexuality back then with grace, while also being realistic.