The Silent Minute

Peggy Grimshaw from the Arion Lyre Association has shared the following thoughts as an addendum to our new Lyre Mantle initiative taken in response to our current world situation. In conjunction with our lyre playing, perhaps we can consider joining others worldwide with this additional inner observance.

Instead of the helplessness with which we express our concern about the current situation in Ukraine, we can use powerful and non-violent means to try to make a difference. Since 1940, the activity of the Silent Minute has lived – beginning with English military officers who experienced the hopelessness of the fight against Hitler's Germany.

Major Wellesley Tudor Pole, who initiated the silent minute, wrote the following:

There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere. It is for this reason that the continued and widespread observance of the Silent Minute is of such vital importance in the interest of human welfare.

Since 1940, in the time before the Battle of Britain and the so-called Blitzkrieg, people all over the world, of different faiths, have agreed that every evening at 21:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), a moment of silence would be observed – a moment of meditative peace, in which everyone considers a prayer for peace, a saying, a poem, or an ideal to provide a portal for cooperation with an “unseen but mighty army” in the subtle realms.

The impulse was later taken up again – in 2001, on the occasion of 9/11 – and it is still alive today.

Thank you for sharing this inspiring proposal with us, Peggy!