Research Non-traditional yoga teachers on leaving a lineage Laura Harvey-Collins June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Is spirituality good for your health? The effects of an online spiritual health programme on the wellbeing of people living with fibromyalgia If you are one of the 1.5 million plus people in the UK who live with fibromyalgia, it is likely that at some time or another you have looked for a way to relieve pain and soothe anxiety. NHS guidelines state that current treatment options, such as pain killers, relaxation therapy, and mindfulness have little […] Sue Evans May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Holistic Wellbeing Trauma and Awakening for Highly Sensitive People Those who are Highly Sensitive are significantly impacted by the world around them. Sensory processing Sensitivity – the official term for Highly Sensitive People (HSP) involves a deeper level of processing, sensitivity to subtleties in one’s environment and high levels of empathy. These traits can have a positive impact when Highly Sensitive People are in […] Jules De Vitto May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Being Mortal: What experiences arise for individuals from having engaged in deliberate and focused conversations on the subject of death? Living can be such a paradox: the golden potential of life and lightness of joy; and the shadows – often suppressed in the unconscious – of who we are. Death, I would assert, is the greatest paradox of all. Birth leads, ultimately and inevitably, to death. Humanity’s problem – unlike other beings – is that […] Barbara Pidgeon May 10, 2022June 3, 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
Art Think Pink: Spirituality and the Arts “Rulers of the World” is a description of an automatic drawing made by the artist Pamela Colman Smith in 1907. It depicts three solemn-looking women sitting on a cliff in a rocky landscape. The women are dressed in flowing robes in earthy hues and wearing pink S-shaped headdresses. A tower is visible on another cliff […] Lila Moore May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Being of Service An Orphan Smiles For the past 13 years, my greatest passion has been volunteering with a group that assists disabled and learning disabled Ukrainian orphans while they are young, during post-secondary education and with emergency needs as they try to make it on their own in the world. I have made several trips over the years and lived […] Leslie Davies Reinhold March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research In a Mirror Darkly: A Reflection on my Transpersonal PhD Journey So Far “Research with soul in mind is re-search, a searching again, for something that has already made its claim upon us, something we have already known, however dimly, but have forgotten.” (Romanyshyn, 2013, P4) A while ago I realised that there is no such thing as “Psychology”; that we are the authors of our […] Mike Rush March 17, 2022March 18, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Being of Service A Cry from Ukraine The following is written by our Alef Trust IT Infrastructure Manager, Vitaliy Dominichenko. Vitaliy is Ukrainian and living in his country … amidst the terror and trauma. It is a measure of Vitaliy’s humanity that his words do not attack others but focus on compassion and the need for caring action. Our hearts go out […] Vitalii Dominichenko March 10, 2022March 10, 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