Author Archives: Paul John Roach

The Green Man

The Green Man archetype represents the deep relationship we have with nature and is found in varying forms in many world traditions. The image of the Green Man whose face is swathed in foliage with shoots springing forth from his open mouth is a potent symbol of the Earth’s, and therefore our, fecundity. Matthew Fox […]

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The Beholder

I was sitting at breakfast with my mother and my wife in a quaint bed-and-breakfast in Wales in the late 1970s when the words “The Beholder” came strongly into my mind. At first I got the idea of God being The Beholder as God seeing everything with a cosmic perspective. Almost immediately I became aware […]

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