What an amazing rainy day we have had! I have not done much else today besides looking at the rain on the trees outside, and the little wallabies we have here. Out little resident Joey spent some time out of the pouch this morning, but I am sure it has been safe and warm with its mum for the rest of the day. I was led to record this Continue Reading
In the Matrix?
Last week I watched the movie The Matrix. For the very first time. I had never understood why this movie had influenced people in the way that it has, with ultra-right movements springing from it, and men’s rights movements, so it was time to see for myself. Funny, how when you approach it with a particular eye, you get something different Continue Reading
Kali Ma
I am looking forward to hosting our first spiritual development circle and meditation via facebook live in this group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1500758779961157/?source_id=161218300658625 We are living in a difficult and uncertain time at the moment. It is scary to see an invisible thing, a virus that is not visible to the naked eye, Continue Reading
Memories of my father
It has been nearly seven years since my father passed away. I miss him. At times there are questions I have that I would like to ask him, because I know he will know the answer. Like, how long did we live in Tunisia. (I know I had my eighth birthday there, but what month did we arrive, and when did we leave?) And, what do you think Hillman meant Continue Reading
Hope or Despair
A while ago I read some blogs by Oliver Burkeman, author and columnist for the British Guardian. Burkeman takes the unusual view, compared with much contemporary thinking anyway, that there can be happiness in not thinking positively all the time. That negative thinking has its own rewards. In the aftermath of the disappearance of the Malaysia Continue Reading
Grace
I’ve been told I have a strong intellectual side, and a strong spiritual side. That is not always easy. My spirituality runs deep, but my mind will usually try to find ways to rationalise the things that I know, deeply, and intuitively. You know, there is a saying, when a feather appears, an angel is near. When I find a feather, unless it is Continue Reading
A Healing Crisis?
I am at the tail-end of having a two-week bout of some upper-respiratory-thing, some “flu”. It started in a very busy week that included 1. a wedding, 2. a funeral, 3. a two-day intensive workshop on dreams and imagination. By the end of that week I spent three days in bed feeling unwell, lungs a’crackle. Why did I get sick? I have not had a Continue Reading
“Phony Holiness”*
Sometimes we can be pulled in purely by the title of an article. When I saw the title The problem of ‘phony holiness’ and when to listen to your inner truth … I expected to read something about acting holy, acting righteous and, like the Pharisees, making a show of our prayers, and our devotion to the church, or to God. I was not expecting to be Continue Reading
Remembering
What are our first memories? Aleeka’s father used to say he could remember lying in his crib. As a small baby. And she has a friend who says he remembers suckling on his mother’s breast. Her own first memories are later than that. Being tossed in the air by her father, and as she came back down into his hands screaming, not with delight, Continue Reading
Prayer, what is it?
When we say we will pray for someone or something, what image does the mind conjure up? Is it kneeling at the side of our beds, earnestly and fervently asking an eminent and transcendent God for things we want, or not? Or keeping us safe while we sleep? Is it sitting in church, praying the rosary beads, and automatically, and maybe mindlessly, Continue Reading