In this free podcast hear author William Bloom speak on his latest book The Power of Modern Spirituality. Listen to William speak on:: The great surge of interest in spirituality in recent decades; A greater interest in spirituality and eco-issues from younger generation; The power of choice, and how spirituality...
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Guest Editorial: Finding Our Unified Voice
When Ann Napier, the loved co-founder of Cygnus, went into hospital last year she was given a standard form to complete and one of its sections asked for her religion. Similarly, in a few weeks’ time everybody who lives in the United Kingdom will be asked the same question when...
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Creative aggression
In 1970, as a book editor, I had commissioned and published the biography of the man who had brought the Hells Angels from the United States to England. A biker myself, I enjoyed riding with them and sharing some of their good times, and before I went off to take...
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The art of holding
What is the greatest single act of service we can give to our fellow beings? High up on my list is the art of ‘holding’. Holding a space. Holding a group. Holding an individual. What does this mean? How is it done? It is not rocket science. The strategy is straightforward and most...
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Community with a heart
My friend, Andrew, never knew what to say to the orthodox Rabbi and the bearded Mullah. As a businessman on the outskirts of London working with his local community and chamber of commerce, he met the two clerics regularly. The conversation was always difficult. His nightmare was that he might...
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Forgiveness
If you follow my columns you will know that I sometimes disclose parts of my life that are not so pure and wonderful. Here comes one of those disclosures. Picture me twenty years ago with an extremely difficult teenage son who had been excluded from three schools for attitudinal violence....
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This is one of the great debates in spirituality: are our minds useful or useless? The destroyer or the creator of illusion? A few weeks ago my mind was definitely a problem. It was racing and I was having trouble slowing it down. Its speed had been triggered by some...
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How can you manage your own journey?
Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. This well known long-term approach to development supports dignity and freedom. Gestures of charity are replaced with an enduring strategy of friendship and respect, which enables...
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Love and enlightenment
Do you want to be a full expression of love? Or do you want to be fully awake and enlightened? Perhaps, like me, you want to be both – Love and Enlightenment. Sometimes the lovers of love say that to be enlightened is meaningless. They assert that love is the...
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Secularism and spirituality
Human curiosity is great. We are spiritually drawn to know more and explore further.And here is the first of many paradoxes. We go further by going nowhere. We travel this journey by being still. This, for me, is the core of meditation. Calm, breathing and aware, our consciousness opens and...
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