“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) You never dream? Everyone dreams; they just remember them in varying degrees. During 1982/1983 I kept a detailed Dream Diary, because my dreams had become even more vivid, as though trying...
Continue reading...Inspirational Poetry
Poetry by Jonathan Stedall
Many books and articles about bereavement understandably tend to focus on the grief and suffering of those who are left behind. There is far less written about those who have seemingly “departed”, “passed on”, or in some people’s minds “passed away”; still less about the relationship that perhaps can still be...
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The Ground of Truth
We all know how the media tend to focus on bad news. If we are lucky there might be a small item at the end of a news programme that is lighter or amusing. Many of us may simply turn off the radio or TV, or refuse to read the...
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March Issue 2013 Chat Page: Random Acts of Kindness
Star Letter: My Random Act of Kindness After a 3 mile run a lady stopped and asked me if I had seen a little black dog, unfortunately I had not but offered to help her look for it which she declined and off she went on her own. I stopped...
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I Mould My Heart
Dear Friends, On the Feast of Epiphany we visited our friends Jehanne and Rob Mehta (see p. 11) and there we met Louis Bohtlingk, author of Dare to Care [220402, £6.99] and his wife Sandra and a very interesting musician and sound healer – Gabriella Kapfer. We sat in a...
Continue reading...Seedpods of the New Time
At the time of writing, the 2nd of January 2013, looking around amongst friends and acquaintances, I can’t fail to notice what a hard transition it has been and is, for so many, myself included, from the difficult year of 2012 into 2013 and the new dispensation. The list is...
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The Most Magical Tree on Earth
In the plant world trees alone do something remarkable: they lift dense matter up from the earth into the light. In their trunks they bring the solidity of rock and the power of the subterranean energy of the earth upwards towards the sky. Discovering the Heart of Yew Yew trees...
Continue reading...The Earth Will Respond with Gratitude
It’s difficult not to keep returning to what the Native American people say, so wisely: ‘What you do to the Earth, you do to yourself. What you do to yourself you do to the Earth’. This comes from the fact that we are part of her, our bodies are our...
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Finding the Star-Fire Inside
The saying ‘as above, so below’ has always fascinated me, likewise that we are a ‘microcosm of the macrocosm’. Both tell of the intimate connection between earth and cosmos, human and cosmos. So what of stars? Are they simply, only, the bright points of light we see in the night...
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With Love to All at Cygnus
Much love, blessings and all courage for the way ahead into these new, unknown and exciting times. With love to all at Cygnus, and warmest congratulations for having stayed the course so wonderfully for this long. Jehanne Summer on Selsley Common These could be the fields of heaven, only we’re...
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