Having taught meditation for decades, I want to reassure people that meditation is a natural human behaviour. All you need is an instinct to be quiet and calm. So why are there all these competing meditation traditions and schools? Here are three short stories that illustrate how meditation might have...
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Issues of the Cygnus Review
Spiritual Teacher Gemma Polo Pujol
You are starting to love life as it is. Seeing this messiness, this confusion, as a road, as our good friend. Trying to discover what it’s really about, without settling for just any answer. When the people I teach tell me that they’re depressed I see it as a sign...
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What is Sensory Herbalism by the Seed Sistas
Sensory Herbalism is designed to aid people on their journey to health. In Sensory Herbalism there is a focus on how we as humans can restore our own health by interacting with the plants themselves through energetic doses and through the growing and harvesting of them. Sensory Herbalism has a...
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The Way to Achieve True Abundance by Lee Harris
This is a channeled communication from “the Zs”, a group of nonphysical beings from another plane of reality. Abundance. This word carries so many connotations within your society. There are many misleading beliefs and ideas – so many un-abundant experiences – associated with this word. What does this word mean...
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Current Cycles of Opportunity by Jenny Jones
What are the current planetary movements telling us? The backdrop is the Aquarian-Leo harmonic and so it’s an age of learning where we serve with loving intent and sacred purpose. There are two powerful signals occurring right now: Saturn is moving through its own sign of Capricorn until it finally...
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Me, Meg and Qigong by Sandra Edwards
When the energy within our body is balanced and flowing with ease, our body is more able to bring about whatever healing it needs My name is Sandra Edwards and I coordinate the Doncaster Cygnus Café Group, which has been running for over 3 years. The group meets once a...
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Letter from the Editor: From Inspiration to Transformation
I am very pleased to include in this spring issue an attractive new edition of the Findhorn Classic Encounters With Nature Spirits by R Ogilvie Crombie. It’s an enjoyable account of a solitary mystic’s encounter with a faun and with the great god Pan in the everyday streets and gardens...
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Editorial
Dear Friends, May I start with thanks? Thank you, thank you, thank you! So many of you have written to us this last month expressing your love, loss and support of my mother Ann Napier who passed away in July. To read your letters brought tears to my eyes, not...
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Happiness Is Your Nature
Creating happiness is not like following a cookery recipe. And when people say things like, ‘Be positive’, this is just placing another expectation or pressure on you. But in fact, happiness is already there. And what you can get better at is realising that it is there – at nurturing...
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The Life of Ann Napier (6th March 1954 – 1st July 2014)
The Life of Ann Napier – By Geoff Napier Ann was born in north London to midwife Agnes Mary Macaulay and Woodcrafter Ernesto Alfredo Caschere. She has two sisters and a brother. From the very earliest moment of her life she realised that the world she was growing up in...
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