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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The Power And Healing Of The Sweat Lodge by Ellie Blair
In the twelve years that I lived and worked in Taos, New Mexico, some of that time was spent working for The Native American Tiwa Tribe at Taos Pueblo where I was privileged to have had the opportunity to attend many Sweat Lodges. Background: Sweat Lodge origins come from...
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Mind to Matter by Dawson Church (Extract)
Thoughts become things. This is manifestly true. I am sitting on a chair right now. It began as a thought in someone’s mind – every detail of it. The frame, the fabric, the curves, the color. Thoughts become things. This is manifestly untrue. I will never be a quarterback for...
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Steve Taylor on his New Edition of The Fall
The Fall is mainly about the human race’s past. It’s about how we fell ‘asleep’ – how we ‘fell’ out of a natural state of harmony and connection into discord and separateness. But the book is also about our future, and the corrective process to the fall. It’s about the...
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The Invisible Killer by Gary Fuller (Extract)
Humans can live for three weeks without food and three days without water – but only three minutes without air. Yet we simply take our air for granted. It’s always there. It’s everywhere. The air pollution that we breathe has changed a great deal over the centuries. It is largely...
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Happy Breathing by William Bloom
Please don’t be shocked by this question: what is the connection between poo and nirvana? Or to put it another way, what is the connection between the state of your gut and spiritual wisdom? If you are up-to-speed with developments in medicine you will know that there is substantial evidence...
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Cygnus Supporters Special Offer Ends Soon!!
For new and current Cygnus Supporters only – big discount on entrance to Mystics and Scientists Conference 2015. Also, a note on Cygnus Community Spirit. The Scientific and Medical Network and the Cygnus Community have teamed up for the first of what will be many special opportunities for Cygnus Supporters....
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Special offer to Cygnus Supporters from the Scientific Medical Network
Dear Friends, Greetings from the Scientific and Medical Network! As both Cygnus and SMN share a vision of inspiring their members to enhance their lives and know that spirituality can contribute to a meaningful life, we decided to collaborate so that Cygnus members could benefit from conferences and events organised by...
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Exciting Update & New Titles from Cygnus Books
Have you been missing the Cygnus Books magazine? I certainly have! I hadn’t realised how much I’d looked forward, every month, to their exclusive Mind, Body, Spirit articles and special book selections. There was always such a diverse range of helpful and inspiring topics covered within those free pages...
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The Global Brain
Have you ever heard of the Global Brain? It is a hopeful and inspiring idea. It suggests that humanity is birthing a global consciousness. You can see it in the expansion of the world’s population and the revolution in global communications. We are all connected In rural India children and...
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