Book Corner Extraordinary Awakenings: The Transformational Power of Turmoil and Trauma As a young man, I suffered from depression. From the age of 16 to 22, I felt like I didn’t know who I was or who I was meant to be. All I knew was that I didn’t like the person I seemed to be. I felt uneasy in other people’s company, found it difficult […] Steve Taylor September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Spiritual Pathfinders: A Creative Synthesis In my PhD research, I sought to evaluate the longer-term process that people undergo to find their spiritual expression. I used the qualitative method of Heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990), to explore the experiences, developmental processes, aspirations, and perspectives of 20 people aged between 37 and 70 who follow a self-directed spiritual path. Each participant had […] Ellis Linders August 13, 2021August 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva with Kartikey Shiva In this book of searing brilliance, Vandana Shiva goes to the heart of the ideological struggle between industrial capitalism represented by Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Energy and Big Tech and the holistic movements represented by systems science, agroecology and natural and complementary approaches to health – the last has been subject to […] David Lorimer August 3, 2021August 19, 2021 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, 2021August 17, 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, 2021July 9, 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
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
