Sacred Action: Spirit Inside Flesh
Struck by these lines from The Last Temptation of Christ movie I watched almost 20 years ago, I wrote them down: “The dual substance of Christ—the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God…has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows…
Six Indications You Have Lived Before
Are we harboring hidden memories and pain from previous life times? It may appear we have only come into this world for the first time, but it’s possible we have lived before. The concept of reincarnation has existed for millennia, in both Western and Eastern philosophies. The theory that the soul reincarnates into different physical…
Parts Play With Parts
From here down it is earth But earth does not exist From here up it is heaven But heaven does not exist So what does? The immediate experience here now And what does it say? The light has given birth To the soft flesh The soft flesh has separated And parts play with parts Imagining…
I Am Here…
I am sitting in a Costa Coffee shop in a small town near the airport… I have just experienced more grassy joy for my feet and now ‘cafe con leche’ has been seamlessly exchanged for ‘flat white’… The sun shines, without so much intensity as a few days ago, but it shines brightly, dappling on…
The Future of Our Bees – Part 4 of 5
Last week I began to explore some of the threats challenging the honey bee. In addition to parasites the bees are also suffering from: Habitat loss Farming habits in England have changed dramatically in the last century. We now have fewer ancient hedgerows, bigger fields and more mechanised practices. This has resulted in large areas…
Warding Off Psychic Attack
The concept of “psychic attacks” (the ability to cause harm or drain someone’s energy from some form of mental telepathy) may seem like science fiction, but many people, including military intelligence agencies, believe that negative mental energy not only exists, but may actually be focused to cause verifiable harm to targeted individuals. Both Russia and…
With Grace, Enter the New Year
I woke up this morning with baby fresh skin—or that’s how it felt. The crumbling, old layers of skin, fraught with fear and uncertainly, shed themselves in my sleep after hours of writing chapters in my novel last night. I woke with less pain than I had had for days, and I attributed it to…
Right Behind It Is You
In this upside down world Where shame is king And the beauty of the evening moon Breaks your heart Isn’t it natural That we choose to make art? There is a mountain range up in the sky And there is a mountain range down We are just waiting for the bird To sit on a…
In Celebration of Love, Life and Enduring Friendship…
I love our ‘Larder’ London experiences, when we land in Winchmore Hill we take up residency in ‘The Larder’… Coffee shop life is the life for me, especially after 11 miles of running on a cold December morning! We turned up on Michael’s doorstep in the first week he opened, two and a half years…
The Future of Our Bees – Part 3 of 5
Issues facing the honey bee Scientists are still unsure why so many bees are dying. Various different causes have been proposed: parasites, loss of suitable habitat, bad weather, pesticides. It is probably a combination of some or all of these factors. Parasites Bees can suffer from several parasites including varroa and acarine mites, nosema fungus…
Why January is Not the Right Time to Review Your Year and Set Your Goals
We are in the month of goal setting frenzy and year review and everybody seems to be so willing to change everything in their lives …I wonder though, is it the right time to do this? This is what the outer landscape can look like in January! I am a woman and I have been…
There’s Another Way and It’s Now
“Those guys there are not moving,” my father said to me in a dream I had while living in my parents’ New Jersey house, healing from immense hip pain and writing my novel. “They are just floating in space and will never get us home.” I dreamed I was on a blanket—yes a blanket!—floating in…