Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure?
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Mar 09 2010
I consider myself very lucky because when I first started studying spiritual healing in my twenties, I read what I still consider to be the wisest and most helpful book on the subject, Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Healing. If you are seriously interested in illness, healing and the process of death, then in my opinion it ought to be top of your reading list.
Mar 07 2010
All of us lapse into such mistaken impressions of old age from time to time. It stems in part from an age-centered perspective, in which we view our own age as the most normal of times, the way all life should be. At 18 the 50-year-olds may seem ancient, but at 50 we are apt to say the same about the 80-year-olds. “So what’s it really like to be old?” I often ask my patients, who are mostly in their late 80s and 90s, and the responses are unexpected. “I forgot I was so old,” a 100-year-old patient recently told me, and then excused herself to make it to bingo on time.
Mar 07 2010
Why did Osho change the traditional order used for The Three Jewels? At first I wondered if it was just a mistake that Sheela made when introducing us to them, but later I found discourses in which Osho referred to them in the order that was presented to us:
Mar 04 2010
This book was written by someone I knew from my years with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I was never a member of the hierarchy, I was a ‘peon’. From that perspective this extremely well researched book helped me understand many things that I couldn’t possibly have known about.
Feb 28 2010
There are some of you who read this site who worked with Chris at Cortijo Romero and other places before he retired to Scarborough. I received notice of his death today – and wanted to honour him in some way. We had been good friends and colleagues, it was a privilege to have known him.
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Feb 25 2010
This piece came in originally as a comment on my article: Living Near Golders Green, which appeared recently. I thought it deserved more prominence, as I found it both moving and interesting.
Persephone, I thoroughly enjoyed your piece on Golders Green. Your words brought back memories of so many things I experienced when deciding to [...]
Feb 18 2010
I have been working for the last fifteen years as a Civil Funeral Celebrant, and started this work when still living in Australia. I am often asked: “I would like to do funerals, how does it work?” ‘Doing’ funerals is not quite it! There is no particular format to ‘do’! Each funeral is uniquely personal. I would prefer to say “providing families with a service for celebrating the death of someone very close”. There is much more to this than meets the eye!
Feb 18 2010
For most of my adult life I have known about the extraordinary Dr. Viktor Frankl. A Jewish psychologist and scholar, who, on finally being freed from the Nazi concentration camps of WW2, was able to write his extraordinary book Man’s Search for Meaning. Imagine my delight when, seemingly by accident, I came across this series of three videos of the man himself talking with beautiful clarity about his thoughts on this whole matter.
Feb 18 2010
This story touched me greatly. It is a moving account of two children from apparently ‘opposing’ ideologies – and their brave and intelligent parents.
JERUSALEM — He can be impulsive. She has a touch of bossiness. Next-door neighbors for nearly a year, they talk, watch television and explore the world together, wandering into each other’s homes without a second thought. She likes his mother’s eggplant dish. He likes her father’s rice and lamb.
Feb 02 2010
I watched the Dimbleby Lecture last night with deep excitement. The excerpt below is from today’s Independent – and I wanted to share it with you. I hope Youtube – or some such – will soon produce a video that we can view. If you can find a copy of last night’s lecture – WATCH [...]