In 1986 Shann Nix Jones was an ambitious journalist in San Francisco who went undercover in the high schools to do a story about the budget cuts in education—a story that Drew Barrymore later turned into the movie, Never Been Kissed. Shann was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and should...
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Finding Soul Companions – Maggy Whitehouse
Maggy Whitehouse is an independent Minister, stand-up comedian and author on Bible mysteries and Kabbalah. When I first started training as a healer, back in 1990, the (then) National Federation of Spiritual Healers sent me a list of potential mentors who might be able to help me during my probation...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...What you might not know about Deepak Chopra
You’d probably never have thought it, but before Deepak Chopra became a well loved mind-body-spirit expert and inspirational philosopher, he was a stressed out, chain smoking and discontented chief of medicine (yes, Western medicine) at a hospital in Boston, America. His work was having a negative impact on his life...
Continue reading...I Can See Clearly Now
My mother breaks down – she’s dressed for work and covered with dirty, salty slush. She is exasperated. Her life is obviously out of control with the departure of her former husband, and she’s doing her best to make ends meet. The lingering Depression, along with a world war, contributes...
Continue reading...The Key to Happiness and Healing
Perhaps the biggest gift I have received on my spiritual path, and particularly from A Course in Miracles, is an understanding of and a means for practising forgiveness. I have found that, practised as often as the need arises (which is quite often!), forgiveness brings not just an easing of...
Continue reading...The Light – Following Your Heart
This is the story of how following the call of my heart and getting in touch with my true Self transformed an abused and drug-addicted adolescent into a passionate woman living her dream. It is the story of how I discovered that what we love and God’s will for us...
Continue reading...The Story of Jeka: A Christmas present for all Cygnus readers
This story was told to us many years ago by a wonderful friend who died recently. In our last conversation with him, we asked if we could share The Story of Jeka with you all, as It has given us so much comfort and inspiration over the years, and we are sure...
Continue reading...A Century of Wisdom
At 108 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the world’s oldest concert pianist. An eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one, she has seen it all – the best and the worst of mankind. She has lived...
Continue reading...Wake Up and Smell the Roses
In spite of bending her head, Diana still hit it on the lintel of the door. But at least there really was a garden on the other side. A thin mist, pearly pink in the early morning light, covered everything, giving the garden an air of mystery, yet the mist...
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