As the outside world gets crazier, Cygnus stands for inclusivity and kindness Welcome to our Summer Review: I hope you like what we have put together. There are some great new voices and a couple of great familiar ones. Two of the contributors are ordinary (or not so ordinary!) Cygnus...
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Signs of Spring
I thought of you today, on my journeys. I’d headed out with my family to Wick, a peaceful old village on the South coast of Wales. We pointed out the many signs of spring along the way – there were tiny, fearless lambs bounding about the wild, green hills and...
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Creativity, Inspiration and Passion – Are they Important?
We live in a world that by and large puts lots of emphasis on left-brain logic and reason and far less on creative pursuits. Academia and the corporate world understand inspiration more in terms of motivations and getting people to do things they might not really want to do. Because many work environments...
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Beating the Winter Blues
The start of the year is a tough time for most people’s self esteem. Traditionally it is a time for self-reflection and vowing to change ourselves for the better. We may resolve to go to bed earlier, work harder, get slimmer, exercise more or spend less. But keeping to resolutions...
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Hero
Every obstacle or challenge you encounter on the Hero’s Journey transforms you as you acquire strength of character and the qualities and abilities you need to overcome the obstacle or challenge. The emergence of these qualities and abilities shape you into the kind of person you need to become to...
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Growth Is Cyclical
Do you know some happy mystics? You may be one yourself. The luckiest of these people have had a most lovely experience since childhood. They have known and felt that existence is permeated with benevolence. They have felt loved by an invisible presence. They recognise and feel suffering and cruelty...
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Future Lives
How many people really take time out to stop and think about where their choices in life will lead them? Not doing this can be a dangerous thing because without a plan people get caught up in the dreams of those around them. I have been teaching Clinical Hypnosis at...
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Nature’s Blessings
If there is one book I wish I had written myself, because it expresses so exactly where I believe our souls are taking us at the moment, it is Claire Thompson’s Mindfulness and the Natural World. The point of our lives In it, Claire asks a question which to me...
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The Joy, Depth and Power of Blessing
Yesterday I returned from a workshop in France with over 80 participants which was a most exhilarating and stimulating event during which I was surprised by the intensity of the demand for an explanation of blessing as a tool for healing. In addition to the book on this theme now...
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The Law of Divine Compensation
As an expression of divine perfection, the universe is both self-organizing and self-correcting. To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a...
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