A short four-part series of stories to find orientation in a busy world.

iii. The Story of the Garden that Was

What do you tend to for the pure pleasure of it?

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Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠perse.london⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ x ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Architecture of Contemplation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

A short four-part series of stories to find orientation in a busy world.

ii. The Story of the Compass without Directions

What measure do you use to guide you in your life choices?

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Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠perse.london⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ x ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Architecture of Contemplation⁠⁠⁠⁠

Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

A short four-part series of stories to find orientation in a busy world.

i. The Story of the Gatekeeper

What are you ready to leave behind, that no longer serves your future self?

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Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠perse.london⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ x ⁠⁠⁠The Architecture of Contemplation⁠⁠⁠

Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

Welcome to Contemplations with me, Hardeep Kaur. Today we are contemplating Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Day Dream.

"The Day Dream is not only about a love shared by Jane Morris and Rossetti. It's about the condition of contemplation, and the transformation that occurs when we swap pace for pause."

If you're ready, let's contemplate.

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Produced by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠perse.london⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ x ⁠⁠The Architecture of Contemplation⁠⁠

Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

Welcome to Contemplations with me, Hardeep Kaur. Today we are contemplating small kindnesses, inspired by Danusha Laméris's poem of the same name.

The act of reaching out to another, whatever scale of gesture, is a sacred one, should we let it be so.

If you're ready, let's contemplate.

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Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

Welcome to Contemplations with me, Hardeep Kaur. Today we are contemplating the idea of the 'compliment that stings' and what it could reveal about how we show up in the world-at-large, and how this relates to our inner sense of self.

This comes off the back of an interaction that I had, and what it brought up in me about two concepts: clarity and resonance, and how we can tap into each, to help us feel more connected to our inner compass.

If you're ready, let's contemplate.

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Produced by: ⁠⁠perse.london⁠ ⁠ x The Architecture of Contemplation

Voice + Contemplation: Hardeep Kaur

⁠⁠@hardeep.earth⁠⁠

Cosmosis. This is a special release.

With Audio Producer Ivan d'Avoine, TAOC created a unique soundscape to accompany a one day immersive experience in London, "What Do I Owe The Cosmos?" hosted by Age of the Steward.

This soundscape accompanied guests as they journeyed through the experience: meeting a series of Contemplations on the cosmic connection we each share; exploring Forms made by designers and artists that embody acts of care, craft and beauty; a Sanctum to sit and rest, slowdown, and contemplate how we each connect to the whole.

This audio experience layers sounds from the many species we share this planet with, and also weaves in select transmissions from others contemplators on what makes our story part of a much larger story . Featuring JF Martel of Weird Studies; Michael Meade of Living Myth; Wisdom of the Masters; Oren R. Lyons and Hardeep Kaur of The Architecture of Contemplation.

Immerse yourself in this soundscape, as you sit, walk, contemplate and re-connect to the part of you that waits to be seen for what it truly is - cosmic.

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This is a companion series to the Architecture of Contemplation podcast.

Welcome to Contemplations with me, Hardeep Kaur. Today we are contemplating the quiet, discreet, intimate gestures by which we navigate our complex mind, and land, scapes.

The brain, or mind, keeps us alert to the signals that are perceptible to our five senses. The rest of our body is a site map that holds more discreet keys to what brings us moments of joy, sadness, rebellion, resentment, fear, love, strife, peace.

Body language is a phrase we know well, but how actively are we seeking to become literate in it with our own being? Without a dialogue with the gestures that speak so openly, without self-censoring or self-editing, is to walk around with a manual written in a foreign language. We become alien to ourselves, a black box of reactions, actions, and unexpressed, suppressed, unspoken, needs and desires.

To observe with curious delight how our body responds to questions or stimuli offered up as we go about our day, is one way into this ancient language of the body.

Take a breath, and let's begin.

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Produced by: ⁠perse.london⁠ x Age of the Steward

Writer + Editor: Hardeep Kaur

⁠@hardeep.earth⁠

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This is a companion series to the Architecture of Contemplation podcast.

Today we are contemplating what it is to reclaim the night's sky. There is a term - sky grief - that gives voice to a feeling that we inherently intuit in spaces and places, city escapes and urban sprawls, a loss of the great, awesome, frightening grandeur, that is the night's sky. 

Thousands of years of looking up into the secrets of the sky, reading the messages of light, from sun, moon, stars, planets alike - this is our lineage. Before, all were asked to honour the rhythm of the day folding into night. Now, we sit, hunched over charms the size of our palms, isolated and alone; artificial lights for an artificial life. It is this night blindness that we each suffer from. This contemplation is an invitation to reclaim the night's sky.

Take a breath, and let's begin.

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Writer + Editor: Hardeep Kaur

@hardeep.earth

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Music track: Giant Wave by Zambolino

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Music track: Arrival by Aylex

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To the Glowing Forest by Piki

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Music track: Nighttime by Zambolino

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Music track: Whales by Zambolino

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This is a companion to the episode of the Architecture of Contemplation podcast that I recorded with Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano. This is a continuation not in words, but in practice.

The conversation with Lisa is shaped by myth, depth psychology, and the quiet insistence of the inner life, an invitation really to step out of the noise and re-enter the subtle, symbolic world within.

Lisa speaks not just to her ideas, but of interior movements, of wrestling with life's thresholds, of claiming our creative fire, and of encountering the unconscious as a vital force. This short contemplation is not a summary, nor an answer. It is a doorway. It's a way to meet what stirred in you during the conversation. But worry not, even if you have not listened to the initial dialogue. This contemplation is still for you.

If you did listen, perhaps there was an image that lingered, a phrase that struck, something unspoken. Perhaps there was discomfort, recognition, a slow yes rising in the body. We don't always need more information. Sometimes we need space.

We need stillness enough to feel what the conversation awakened. This is that space.

Take a breath, and let's begin.

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Produced by: perse.london

Writer + Editor: Hardeep Kaur

@hardeep.earth