Non-Duality, Right/Left Politics and the US Election

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…

7 Steps to Abundance – Even When You Feel Broke

Spirituality and quantum physics agree that consciousness creates. Quantum physics has proved that consciousness affects matter, in other words your thoughts (energy) determine what you create in the physical world. We’ll delve a little deeper into the quantum physics of manifestation in our later lessons on conscious creation, but suffice to say that it is…

Compassion

One of the greatest gifts that you can give to yourself – and everyone else – is compassion. During my life journey probably the most magical discovery or re-discovery has been compassion. It has been enriching to me and has helped me to appreciate, respect and help others. If you often find that you are…

Breathing in Rhythm

When the body is breathing in rhythm with your physical breath and you are conscious of that and you are present to that and you are totally there allowing it to happen, then there is a marvellous transformation. Did you know that it is possible for you to do this right now? Take a few…

Individuality Rules!

We are sitting in a cafe in Cyprus, our new office. We have Derek with us, Malcolm of Running Crazy has nick named him ‘The Pink Panther’ because he loves to wear pink… He has pink shorts and a pink watch and pink sun glasses. I asked him if he has always liked pink… He…

Your Overwhelming Priority

Feel overwhelmed and that you have too much to do? Are you often distracted by yourself or others? Are there key issues that you need to address in your life – perhaps in terms of your career, your finances or relationships? I coach many people who are in a similar situation. It may be the…

Consciousness

Consciousness could perhaps be best described as radical honesty, which is basically saying things as they are in that moment, without the interference of the social mind, or the mind that it connected to the ego – the ego that likes to plan, project, or creates ideas about what is going on and then transmit…

Independently Together

Jamie is drawing, Anadi is on his computer and I am writing… Companionable silence; all of us looking forward to our anniversary feast… Today we ran across the island to Xlendi… We even intended a dip in the sea on arrival, but the swell was huge against the rocks, the waves crashing on the beach…

Does Religion Ruin Spirituality?

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…