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
Art Visionary Brit Museum On a cold afternoon in November, I passed through the threshold of the smallest gallery in London to install my augmented reality prints. It reminded me of a scene from Harry Potter or an occult ritual in which two realms intersect and fuse into a visionary vista. This time, it wasn’t a wall that led […] Lila Moore December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Research Transpersonal teaching in the face of adversity. How can a teacher’s inner process work/innate qualities support creativity for a transformative online learning experience during Covid 19? The key to transformative online learning during adverse situations, such as Covid 19, may depend on the quality of the teacher student relationship In March 2020, as a result of the Covid19 pandemic, teachers all over the world were forced to start teaching online. Coming from a background in holistic education, I was particularly interested […] Adi Asana June 17, 2022July 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Art Word, Flesh and Whale Song And the word became flesh and dwelt among us for many days and nights. Life was simple and peaceful until one noon when it was fishing, the flesh desired to become word again. Longing for a release, the flesh jumped into the big waters, and fell through the mouth of an old and wise whale. […] Lila Moore June 9, 2022June 9, 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
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
Conscious Community Initiative Project “Mend”: Stitching lives together Project Mend was born out of my own experience of stitching as a mindfulness practice. My ideas solidified during my studies with Alef Trust. Learning that stitching can lead to a state of mind that resembles meditation (Kirwin, 2012) and that textile art contributes to feelings of well-being, boosting confidence levels and increasing motivation for […] Tania Botoulas July 21, 2021July 23, 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
