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
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
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
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
Book Corner 101 Steps For Transformation Do you know people who are so passionate about one thing that it’s the sole driving force in their life? Whether this may be called their purpose or not, it’s what they cannot not do. They didn’t plan for it, they didn’t prepare for it, and they didn’t ask others whether it was the right […] Luka Bonisch July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Our Moment of Choice, Eds. Atkinson, Johnson & Moldow Our Moment of Choice brings together 43 evolutionary leaders to reflect on a series of interconnected crises that threaten our very survival at a time when there are also signs of a global level shift in consciousness, whereby we can co-create ‘a flourishing, life-affirming future.’ The content was arranged in seven circles: bridge building, restoring […] David Lorimer May 10, 2022June 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner A Personal Note upon the Publication of Psyche Unbound: Essays in Honor of Stanislav Grof It was such an honor for me to collaborate with Rick Tarnas on this book celebrating Stan Grof and his remarkable life’s work. Looking back on my own intellectual and psychospiritual development, I see three elements or dimensions that first drew me to Grof. First, there was his understanding of, and attitude toward, non-ordinary states […] Sean Kelly March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner An Elephant in the Brain. One Year with a Brain Tumour: A Carers Story In June 2018 my husband, Ivor, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The diagnosis was a seismic shock, but it also offered an explanation for much of the curious and distressing behaviour he had demonstrated in preceding months. He died just one year later. From day one I found myself with a strong desire to […] Christine Miskelly March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Just launched: The Transpersonal Coaching Handbook, Third Edition The Transpersonal Coaching Handbook (TCH) is a comprehensive, interactive, and practical guide for coaches at all levels, including anyone interested in learning the transpersonal approaches to coaching and problem solving. In addition to covering, step by step, the core coaching methods and skills of the Transpersonal Coaching Model, this 430-page e-book is also abundant with […] Jevon Dangeli February 8, 2022March 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked