Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure?
In this section of the site you will find my longer articles.
Some will be new and others from my past collection. For these also, we will value your comments.
Oct 18 2011
Starting to write this, I am sitting in a beautiful, clear room with a view of the Alps in the distance, revelling in the quiet beauty all around me. I was invited to give a talk on Conscious Aging in Munich on 27th September. Blessedly this has included a visit to a close friend’s mountain [...]
Jun 17 2011
David Spangler’s lovely article on healing in our April issue brought a couple of interesting comments. Both writers asked if I had any suggestions about healing relationships, which was the main thrust of David’s article. To be honest, I had not thought about the subject very much – although absolutely aware of its importance. I [...]
May 23 2011
This month’s article by David Spangler has the phrase: “One has to ‘walk’ on the earth, extending one’s self into the life of this world.” I published his article because of that sentence. On re-reading it today, I wondered why those words struck such a deep chord within me. So I will try to explain. [...]
Mar 29 2011
“Science is our best defence against what we want to believe” . . . . . . Ian Stewart I totally appreciate that quote, and on many levels it is true, unarguably so. However, as someone who has drifted through a long life, weaving my way through differing spiritual belief systems – I want to [...]
Feb 26 2011
This is a personal perspective. It is also rather long! So, take your time to read it. From before the time of Nostradamus to the present day we’ve been led to believe that the future will be full of mayhem, murder, catastrophe, political, economic, social, and geographic upheaval. For those of you hungry for more [...]
Jan 26 2011
A personal comment on on-line dating. With apologies to Scott M. Peck. Arriving in my somewhat bemused 70s, although gently hopeful, I never imagined that there would be a man with whom I would fall in love with the same fervour as at seventeen. Well, recently it happened, I met a man and fell in [...]
Oct 23 2010
All my life I have been plagued, or thought I was, by the feeling of not fitting – anywhere. Added to that was always the longing for something more – even though, as a young girl not recognising the fact. As some of you already know, that longing has got me into more pickles, scrapes [...]
Aug 10 2010
Recently I mentioned the book The Monk and the Philosopher. During a few day’s escape and calm at a friend’s house in Devon, it was read more thoroughly. This book’s conversations between father and son woke me up. I saw how I mangle and elaborate the dramas in my life, and how much that mangling [...]
Jun 23 2010
As some of you already know I am in the middle of writing a book. It feels like a driven process. Material from my life story keeps pouring out in words, words and more words – too many all at once. I guess you writers out there will probably know what I mean, it becomes [...]
May 21 2010
Going into Retreat Reflections on the Soul’s Need for a Holiday The Collins dictionary on the word retreat is: v.1. To withdraw or retire in the face of an enemy. v.2. To retire or withdraw as to seclusion or shelter. n.1. The act of retreating or withdrawing. 2. A place to which one may retire [...]