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
Art Contemplative Land Art – The Spiralynth The Story of The Spiralynth October 2021 – on-going Media: Conkers, leaves, rake and movement. Location: Buckinghamshire, UK. In the paddock, beneath the giant outspread branches of the tree we’ve come to know lovingly, respectfully as ‘Big Momma’, I slowly gathered myself against the cold and wind. My intention, to complete the Sisyphean task of […] Trudi Simpson February 10, 2022February 10, 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
Art Media Priestesses and Auric Fields ‘We live in times of darkness, in shadows of artificial light’ writes Psyence Vedava in her illuminating book chapter: The Dance of Aurora, Media Priestesses and Auric Fields The chapter suggests that embodied ritual practices of the feminine—involving media, art, psycho-spiritual technologies, and techniques of the occult—manifest transmedial auric fields that weave the dance […] Lila Moore February 2, 2022February 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner The Call to Unite by by Tim Shriver and Tom Rosshirt In his foreword, Tim Shriver writes that we get belonging by giving it, becoming more whole in the process. In conceiving the event and book The Call to Unite, he asked how we can move from a culture that divides us to a culture that unites us, the choice at every crisis point: ‘Divide or […] David Lorimer January 10, 2022January 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Embodied Practice Holistic Wellbeing Meditation Do Less, Be More: Holistic seasonal retreats in the UK Do Less, Be More is a series of seasonal retreats which align internal transformative processes with the natural rhythms of the seasons. They offer a facilitated, yet self-directed process, informed by a variety of contemplative and embodied traditions delivered by an interdisciplinary team. The ethos is one of learning by doing, experimenting, reflecting, and sharing. […] Tamara Russell and Trudi Simpson January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Solstice and the Technology of Time The architectonic structures of monuments such as Karnak Temple in Egypt and Stonehenge in England are ancient time measurement systems that, through links with the sun and sky, helped regulate human activity in cyclic correlation with a sacred Earth and Cosmos. These structures are the remains of ancient magical technology that in special moments in […] Lila Moore December 20, 2021February 17, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Book Corner Emerald to Ice: Adventuring in Ecological Science Fiction There’s a sequence in David Attenborough’s insect series, Life in the Undergrowth, when he describes the annual life cycle of the bumble bee. The story of the queen bee founding her nest after hibernation, raising a whole society, producing new queens and finally succumbing to senescence can only be described as high drama. This was […] Matt Colborn November 8, 2021November 9, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conscious Community Project [EN] Yoga therapy with labour rights activists in Mexico/ [ES] Yogaterapia con defensoras de los derechos laborales en México [ VERSIÓN ESPAÑOL A CONTINUACIÓN] Self-care and collective-wellbeing for effective, sustainable and transformative social justice movement building With almost 2 billion dollars of goods and services crossing each day, Mexico’s border with the United States embodies how corporate globalisation thrives on economic disparity and social inequality. Workers on the Mexican side are paid approximately a […] Lorraine Clewer October 27, 2021February 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
