Personal stories Research YETI: Childhood Dreams, Generational Dreaming, and the Mythical Seeds of a Life Is there a subtle and sentient level of dreaming which may appear in our childhood dreams and dreaming of different generations? And if so, what guidance or wisdom might we […] Mark O'Connell July 21, 2026July 21, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Meeting Pan at the Threshold In those spaces in-between, when the hero’s call has been answered, just as the archetypal Seeker steps toward the unknown, a dark figure stirs. The air thickens. The heart pounds. […] Mary-Rita McGuire May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Research *PODCAST* Do Awakenings help change the world? In the course of sharing the call for participants for my MSc dissertation research project with Alef Trust, several months ago I was introduced to Sean Blackwell and his work. […] Elizabeth Halliday March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Radical Acceptance The following blog post was inspired by my master’s thesis which inquired into ‘How to Last?’ specifically looking at the role of love in the face of climate emergency. ‘Eco’ […] Giedre Kleivaite February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Research Attention strategies to shift from ordinary thinking into exceptional states for life and leadership This work did not come to me easily. I was not a natural. As the son of protective immigrant parents, I didn’t fit in well at school. By the time […] Glenn Hartelius November 2, 2023November 2, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories Gaia Consciousness: A personal spiritual experience I have been interested in spiritual seeking most of my life and by 1971, in my mid-twenties, I was already running my own meditation group for six to eight individuals, […] David Furlong February 17, 2023February 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Creative Insight Music Personal stories My Integrative Life Journey through Music and Resonance “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are […] Vitalii Dominichenko June 24, 2021December 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Personal stories TEDx Speaking the Unspeakable: Confronting generational trauma I believe that women have generational wounds that are passed down unconsciously. I discovered this myself by accident when I started a process six years ago of healing from childhood […] Sophie Jama Malindi April 26, 2021June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Insight Personal stories Choosing simplicity & constructing my House of Refuge During the first 36 years of life, before choosing simplicity, I was immersed in the material world. I was never one who needed the latest and greatest ‘things’, yet the […] Eryn Donnalley July 22, 2020June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Insight Personal stories Lockdown & the synchronous song of nature I would like to share a brief aspect of my experience and deepening connection with nature during the lockdown in London. I’ve always had a strong affinity with nature, which […] Lucy Sam July 15, 2020June 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
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