ByJulia Chi
All my life I have wanted to run and write, preferably in the sun… I was born in West Africa and the first few years of my life were spent running free, mainly naked… We returned to England when I was four years old, and in effect it has taken me fifty years to return…
ByTony Samara
It is interesting that most people reach a point in their lives where they accept the feeling of being alive, but not quite to the extent that they wish this aliveness to be. Divine ecstasy is the ecstasy one feels that is beyond the joy and happiness that comes from the mundane aspects of life…
ByCaroline Nettle
In the secular west, we have been living in a society that for 2,000 years has denied the phenomenon of reincarnation. It began with the church, which as the Bible was being collated, decided to omit any reference to reincarnation, as a method of controlling the population by fear. The church used fear to keep…
ByTeri Dluznieski
Fear is a great tool for manipulating individuals and groups into desired behaviour. In schools, kids are teased, harassed or bullied into conformity, or as a punishment for not conforming to a social norm. This is a way of stealing someone’s vital essence, killing their inner fire, and stealing or damping that sacred spark of…
ByJulia Chi
When I was in my very early twenties I can remember a longing, a yearning, to withdraw from society… To be a nun maybe..? Those who know me well will laugh at this thought…! But it was more the withdrawal from the world that I was attracted to – the spiritual contemplation and stillness that…
ByCatherine Green
What do I want? What do you want? What do any of us want? There is the ultimate question, and it is one that I had forgotten about until I re-watched an episode of ‘Hang Out With Penny’ on YouTube. I first came across Penny Peddie via a Google+ hangout that I stumbled across late…
ByJulia Chi
I was driving yesterday over the Ashdown forest… The forest where Pooh bear, Piglet and all their friends live. It was a forest I almost lived in too for many years… Most days I would run there, loving its expansive wildness and it’s freedom. It reflected my yearning, for wildness and freedom; no restraints within…
ByJan Moore
In the months leading up to the 2012 Shift of December 21st, there was an abundance of predictions concerning what was going to actually happen on that fateful date predicted by the Mayan calendar. Many people were disappointed that there wasn’t a bolt from the blue to launch them into a higher dimension, while others…
BySue Ellam
The many faces of invasion and why we have to be ever watchful so as not to be on either side of the fence – the invader or the invaded. Whenever I hear the word invasion, what immediately comes to mind is one country invading another. We have ultimately learned that the reasons we are…
ByTony Samara
With all the financial troubles assailing the world at this time, I have been asked for some advice about how to invest ethically or what to do with money, which to me is a symbolic extension of who you are. There are many ethical bonds, banks and organisations that one can invest in. Better still,…
ByCaroline Nettle
Many people in our society choose to endure relationships long beyond what is deemed to be healthy. To some people, having a relationship at all, regardless of how miserable it makes you, is better than being on your own, and all that this implies. To others, early childhood programming has taught them to put up…
ByJulia Chi
When I swim far out into the Ionian Sea, here in Corfu it flashes through my being that I could drown. My vulnerability rises up… My body could be consumed by the deep blue lake that feels to heal with every immersion I take… This place of healing could also be my grave… I didn’t…