The Honeymoon Effect
Over the years, Margaret and I have learned from personal experience a truth we have often heard before: to help yourself and to assist the universe in helping you, it is important to visualise and […]
Oneness
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen
In May in my fifty-seventh year, I spoke in an innovative series known as Narrative Rounds at Columbia University medical school in New York City. As a cancer survivor, this meant a great deal to […]
The O Manuscript
As I have mentioned earlier in this book, there are no reliable sources supporting the idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or specifically sinful. The town Migdal, which is supposed to be the source […]
We are People of the Earth
The fields have gone under the plough. The swifts and the swallows have flown. The mist and the rain are descending again And the fall into winter’s begun. This is an autumn round I wrote […]
Hugs and Compassion
Cygnus readers will not be surprised to read that hugs are good for us. In fact we hope that this magazine is a kind of a hug – a friendly presence held in your hands. […]
Attitudinal Healing
Is there another way of looking at the world that changes our experience of life? Is it possible to choose to let go of fear and conflict completely? Is it possible to heal our painful […]
Come, Free Your Hearts Right Now, From All the Lies
My dear, dear Friends, When we were younger we used to sing a most beautiful song, with the line in it: ‘Come, free your hearts right now, from all the ties.’ But once I misread […]
When Love is Truly All-in-all
Many years ago, I was attending the board meeting of an international peasant-farmer network of which I was one of the founding members in the seventies in West Africa. This is the amazing group that […]
Cupid’s Poisoned Arrow
In my next incarnation I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. […]