Insight Welcome to The Alef Field! Our transpersonal community of change-makers is cocreated by Alef Trust and all participants in this multimedia magazine and hub. We recognise that our times call to deeply and urgently revision our relationships with ourselves, each other, the planetary ecosystem and transpersonal dimensions. Our collective intention is to provide a fertile terrain and shared field of […] Francesca Hector June 25, 2020July 15, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Making Magic Happen The Magickal Women Conference held on 1 June 2019 was a major international gathering in London celebrating women in the occult, witchcraft, and esoteric traditions. The conference was designed to pay homage to the women of the past who challenged the status quo by embracing mysticism, magic and occultism, and to the women who continue […] Lila Moore June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creative Insight Music Personal stories My Integrative Life Journey through Music and Resonance “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.” Alan Watts Music is my life As far as I remember, I always […] Vitalii Dominichenko June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Uncategorized Love and Freedom: Transcending Monogamy and Polyamory Like all my prior books, the roots of Love and Freedom are deeply personal. It was in the late 1980s, while walking with my first steady girlfriend in the streets of Barcelona that the following question flashed into my mind: “Why does being in this relationship mean that I cannot love any other person on […] Jorge Ferrer June 21, 2021June 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Eye of the Heart, by Cynthia Bourgeault Cynthia Bourgeault is a mystic (my dictation system insisted on mistake!), Episcopal priest, theologian and retreat leader who is one of the leading contemporary advocates of centring prayer and the rediscovery of the Wisdom and Mary Magdalene as wisdom teachers on the basis of the Gnostic Gospels. I reviewed her book on Mary Magdalene in […] David Lorimer June 3, 2021June 3, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art The Resurgence of the Spiritual in Art Recently a resurgence of the spiritual in art can be identified in the popular appeal of exhibitions such as Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim Museum (2019), Emma Kunz: Visionary Drawings at the Serpentine Galleries (2019), and in the Tate’s acquisition of Ithell Colquhoun’s archive. Parallelly, neoteric creative trends seek to […] Lila Moore May 22, 2021June 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Project Conscious Community Project 2021: Introducing six new grant-funded projects The Alef Trust Conscious Community Project is delighted to announce that we are supporting six new holistic change facilitation projects around the globe. The quality of applications from students, alumni and faculty of the Alef community was again exceptionally high, and we are excited to be working alongside these project leaders and their teams to […] Francesca Hector May 17, 2021May 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research The Integral Enneagram Framework The Enneagram I encountered the Enneagram for the first time in a small one-day workshop almost a decade ago. It was love at first sight. Though it was presented then as a simple personality model that pointed mostly to our pathologies and problems, I could immediately sense that there is a much deeper secret to […] Khaled ElSherbini May 5, 2021June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Does Synchronicity Point Us Toward The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness? In September 2019 I joined the Alef Trust as a student in Year 1 of the MSc program in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. I was especially excited about taking the Approaches to Consciousness module, as most of my explorations in this area were self-taught, and I was looking forward to connecting with others who […] Bethany Butzer April 28, 2021June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories TEDx Speaking the Unspeakable: Confronting generational trauma I believe that women have generational wounds that are passed down unconsciously. I discovered this myself by accident when I started a process six years ago of healing from childhood sexual abuse. In writing, meditating, and speaking to members of my family, a doorway opened and secrets spilled out containing long-held severe trauma that my […] Sophie Jama Malindi April 26, 2021June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching by Rosemarie Anderson While living and teaching in Asia in the late 1970s, I learned to read basic Chinese in order to identify the women’s restroom, read street signs, and buy more items than I could readily identify such as eggs, vegetables, and beer. Soon I fell in love with Chinese etymology and calligraphy and deepened my understanding […] Rosemarie Anderson April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
