Jocelyn Chaplin is an experienced psychotherapist (soul healer), and spiritual teacher with a particular interest in planetary transformation.
We are going through a time of deep crisis and opportunity when the old paradigms of hierarchy, domination and competition are being met with the rising ones of the 99% wanting more equality and real democracy. To match the politics of the streets I’ve been exploring a new spirituality in which the force of equalising and balancing is honoured along with the rhythms of nature. This has evolved from my practices with Buddhist and Sufi meditation, Pagan and Goddess ceremonies and Taoist philosophy.
ByJocelyn Chaplin
I was talking to a friend about the way so many of us are on journeys or paths that are in some way moving towards greater equality. Liberals and progressives have always hoped for this. Yet more and more of us are disillusioned by world events and initial hope turns easily to despair. I used…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
How come the right often do so much better at ‘spiritual’ inspiration’? In France they have Joan of Arc, in Greece ‘The Golden Dawn.’ Isn’t it time that the left developed a spirituality of its own. Many progressives are often passionately atheist or on the liberal wings of essentially patriarchal religions. The distinction between organised…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
In his History of the World TV series Andrew Marr described the 20th Century as THE AGE OF EXTREMES. Is it ridiculously optimistic to think that the 21st Century could be THE AGE OF EQUALISING? There does seem to be a surge of concern about inequality from China to the US. Economic inequalities are the…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
I’ve spent my life fascinated with opposites. Perhaps this is because I was born early on Jan.1st facing the old year and the new at the same time, like Janus. Opposites are so basic to our thinking and yet often seem to change into each other as described in Taoism or Enanteodromia (the Greek way…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
This was the title of a recent discussion at St. James’s Piccadilly between Revd. Lucy Winkett and Malcolm Stern, Founder of Alternatives. Lucy talked of her own very uplifting ‘spiritual’ experiences within Christianity while acknowledging that a lot of religion is ‘bad’. Millions of people, at least in the West describe themselves as Spiritual but…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
A friend recently commented on my book ‘Deep Equality’. She said that it was really inspiring around spirituality and progressive politics, but there was no ‘being’ to worship. Well, I’m not exactly a worshipping kind of person, hierarchies aren’t my thing. But I did think a lot about it. I have to admit that most…
ByJocelyn Chaplin
Jocelyn Chaplin is an experienced psychotherapist (soul healer), and spiritual teacher with a particular interest in planetary transformation. We are going through a time of deep crisis and opportunity when the old paradigms of hierarchy, domination and competition are being met with the rising ones of the 99% wanting more equality and real democracy. To…
