Insight 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, 2021May 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Insight 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, 2021April 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Insight 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, 2021April 26, 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
Book Corner A Quest for Wisdom – Inspiring Purpose on the Path of Life, by David Lorimer At the age of 24, I pressed the “Eject” button from my conventional career path in City merchant banking and set off on my quest for wisdom and deeper understanding of life. I arrived at Champagne Moet & Chandon in Epernay in the autumn of 1976 with four boxes of books, combining reading with guiding […] David Lorimer April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Uncategorized The Faces of God: A Kabbalistic “Myth” and its Implications for Consciousness Last year I was invited to contribute a chapter to a book with the provisional title “Perspectives on consciousness”. My initial impulse was to decline the invitation due to a high workload for Alef Trust related tasks, exacerbated by responsibilities to a child needing home schooling during the pandemic and an ageing father requiring increasing […] Les Lancaster March 10, 2021April 9, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Transpersonal Coaching Handbook, by Jevon Dangeli et al The second edition of the Transpersonal Coaching Handbook (TCH) was launched on 4th March 2021 by the book’s lead author Jevon Dangeli (Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Course Leader at Alef Trust). The TCH is a comprehensive, interactive, and practical guide for coaches at all levels, including anyone interested in learning the transpersonal approaches to coaching and […] Jevon Dangeli March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Mind to Matter, by Dawson Church The author is the founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare (www.niih.org) for the study and implementation of evidence-based psychological and medical techniques, including EFT. His starting point for this informative book is that every creation begins as a thought. The computer on which I am writing this began as a thought, and this […] David Lorimer January 25, 2021January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner An End to Upside-Down Living, by Mark Gober I met Mark at the conference that we arranged with the Laszlo Institute in the summer of 2018. He had just finished his first book, An End to Upside Down Thinking, which I reviewed in the December 2018 issue, in which he also contributed an article. He was originally a Wall Street investment banker and […] David Lorimer December 6, 2020January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Kabbalah & Healing, by Maggy Whitehouse Maggy Whitehouse is an independent sacramental minister and teacher of Kabbalah in the Toledano Tradition who has recently found a second strand of work as a professional stand-up comedian. In this remarkable and profoundly wise book, she leaves her own journey to the final chapter entitled ‘a life of miracles’ where she describes various critical […] David Lorimer November 4, 2020March 4, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
