Art Book Corner Creative Crossing Thresholds: Stories & art from beyond ordinary consciousness Creative states of consciousness seem to exist on a continuum spanning everyday unconscious cognitive processing and flashes of inspiration, to experiences that stretch beyond space and time and have the potential to open a dialogue with a spiritual source. I have had a long-standing fascination with the link between creativity, imagination, and expansive states of […] Lorraine Tolmie March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Gaia Consciousness: A personal spiritual experience I have been interested in spiritual seeking most of my life and by 1971, in my mid-twenties, I was already running my own meditation group for six to eight individuals, meeting for a couple of hours an evening every fortnight to explore our inner world. We sometimes chose specific themes, like compassion, for our focus […] David Furlong February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Research ‘This Is The Land’: A liminal journey through performance art My PhD is an embodied and interdisciplinary research that investigates the concept of the ‘eerie’ in Contemporary Performance through a methodology of inhabiting abandoned spaces, where the eerie presence of an unknown agency is felt. As Fisher (2016) says, “the eerie clings to certain physical spaces or landscapes” (p.61). I have come to realise that […] Mary Steadman February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner The True Nature Of Our Reality: A Transpersonal awakening – making sense of it all. At the age of seven I was looking out my bedroom window at the sky. I felt drawn to the expansiveness and then it was as if I merged with it to became part of it. It was beautiful for a moment but then my brain tried to make sense of what I was experiencing […] Ronan Rooney January 20, 2023January 25, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Transpersonal Coaching Psychology: An introduction to the theory and practice Abstract Transpersonal Coaching Psychology (TCP) can be described as the theory and practice of coaching that takes a holistic and integrative approach to support client growth and transformation. The unique qualities and strengths of this approach to coaching are outlined, including how open awareness skills are applied as a means to hold a safe, compassionate […] Jevon Dangeli January 15, 2023January 25, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Poetry Better Light a Candle: Poems “Better Light a Candle is a distillation of my life experience, a poetic reflection on life’s polarities, on light and darkness, hope and despair, love and fear, healing and wounding, gain and loss, spring and autumn, unfolding and refolding, opening and closing, birth, death and rebirth, remembering and forgetting, fire and water, time and the […] David Lorimer December 21, 2022December 22, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Reinhold Niebuhr and the Question of Global Democracy by David Ray Griffin This book follows up a key theme from David’s earlier works reviewed in these pages – The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? and The Christian Gospel for Americans. The first chapter takes as its starting point the anarchical character of civilisation identified by Bertrand Russell’s friend G. Lowes Dickinson in the 1920s. Contrary to the […] David Lorimer September 23, 2022October 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Events [25 Sept 22] Dr Les Lancaster, Kabbalah and Language: The Path of Hermeneutic Mysticism Sunday 25th September 2022 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm (London) Tickets: £15 for an invitation on Zoom Book online on the Fintry Trust website Most psychologists and philosophers interested in mysticism emphasise commonalities across diverse traditions, reasoning that these represent a collective core beyond the particularities of specific belief systems and culturally embedded dogmas. In […] Les Lancaster September 12, 2022September 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Introduction to the Inaugural Volume of the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal As Editor of the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal (TCPJ) and developer of the Transpersonal Coaching Model, I am delighted to share this editorial introduction to the TCPJ here in the Alef Field. It is with enormous joy and gratitude that the TCPJ will be launched on the 1st September 2022. TCPJ is an open access […] Jevon Dangeli August 20, 2022August 21, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Coaching and Trauma I wrote Coaching and Trauma as I felt an urge to apply my learning from the therapeutic field to coaching. I thought coaches could benefit from understanding more about trauma and how it shows up in the coaching space. I had been committed to exploring and understanding trauma in the previous eight years, as a […] Julia Vaughan Smith August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
