When the Moon covers the Sun, and the shadows of the Earth surround Her People, silence descends. A moment of reverence is felt; we can hear and sense our breaths and heartbeats. We are all together held under the mercy of heavenly bodies, witnessing the choreography of the gravitational fields that dance our solar system into existence. During the solar eclipse, all our differences dissolve. We become one species out of the numerous life forms that inhabit a small planet, safely hidden in the periphery of a galaxy too enormous to comprehend with a human consciousness.
When the Moon covers the Sun, and the shadows of the Earth surround Her People, silence descends. Darkness stirs our primordial fears and rekindles our survival instincts, our urge to protect life. Unlike our human ancestors, we experience the solar eclipse in another part of the world telematically and telepathically. Although we cannot experience the eclipse from afar, our technological connectivity sends us the signal, the sign, the sound, the image, and the symbol, immersing our individual consciousness with that of global and cosmic consciousness. We are all one when the Moon covers the Sun.
When the Moon covers the Sun, and the shadows of the Earth surround Her People, silence descends. The ancient Mayans were terrified, perhaps for a good reason. Maybe they sensed what happened when humans ignored their shadows and filled the silence with noise so they wouldn’t hear the Great Void. The friction the Mayans identified between the Sun and the Moon during a solar eclipse was perhaps a metaphor for the unbalance that tends to play out in human drama.
When the Moon covers the Sun, the drama is performed on a cosmic scale, with an auspicious ending. The light returns, though not without a warning: watch out for the shadow of the Moon!
When the Moon covers the Sun, and the shadows of the Earth surround Her People, silence descends. Receive the signal, the sign, and the symbol of a timely and timeless communitas.
Dr Lila Moore holds a practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen from Middlesex University (2001), UK, in the context of experimental film, dance, modern and contemporary art, multimedia and cyber performance with special reference to myth, ritual, women’s spirituality and movement therapy through imaginal images and archetypes. The PhD was based on her M.Phil in film/video and dance (1997) and MA in Independent Film and Video (1989) from Central Saint Martins in London. Her Postdoc at the Planetary Collegium of Plymouth University (2015) entitled The Cybernetic Futures Institute, explored networked-digital-interactive forms of performance and narrative, fields of noetic and compassionate consciousness, and the innovative formulation and intersection of advanced technologies, spirituality and technoetic aesthetics to counteract the dominant narrative of violence. Dr Moore is a UK-certified Professional Life Coach and Counsellor practising Jungian, creative, embodied and technoetic holistic/transpersonal methodologies.
Lila Moore is a lecturer and dissertation supervisor at the Alef Trust. She teaches on the Transpersonal Psychology Module as well as the Option course Spirituality and the Imaginal as part of the Spiritual Psychology Module. She was a lecturer at the Department for the Study of Mysticism and Spirituality at Zefat Academic College until its closure (2013-2022) and received the Outstanding Lecturer Award in 2022 in recognition of her dedicated and excellent work.
Dr Moore co-chairs the Spirituality and the Arts Special Interest Group of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality. She is an editorial board member of both S/he – An International Journal of Goddess Studies and the Alef Trust’s Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology journal. She regularly presents papers in academic conferences, produces academic writings, and serves as a reviewer for EVA London Conferences. As an international artist and theorist, Lila Moore’s artworks and theoretical texts are archived by SIGGRAPH and ADA-Archive of Digital Art. She exhibits in juried and curated exhibitions as well as curates online exhibitions via Cybernetic Futures.
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