I have been thinking about how I see the appearance of an increase in the use of the spiritual as a possible way in which the global community can recover and evolve beyond the virus crisis. As a someone who trained as a teacher, I also began to think about the basic approach education might … Read more
Hilary Wainwright, A New Politics From The Left. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018. xiv-146pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-2362-7, hardback, £35.00. ISBN 978-15095-2363-4 paperback, £24.99. Reviewed by Gary Hawke[i] Published in The Journal of Critical Realism Hilary Wainwright has written a wonderful and humanistic book in which she uses her extensive experience, obtained from a lifetime of dedication to … Read more
Published in PERIÓDICO POLIFONIA Abstract Bhaskar’s Philosophy of metaReality (PMR) referred to as his spiritual turn, first began with his book From East to West, and continued within the three main books of metaReality. This paper attempts to place PMR within the stream of Critical Realism (CR) and introduce to the reader two of the … Read more
“We humans are a most delightful mélange of energy patterns or self’s. Some of these energies are familiar and comfortable, some are curious or unfamiliar, and some are downright distasteful” (Stone H and Stone S 1998:27) This paper will look at Integral Therapy’s approach to the creation of subpersonalities and how the theory might provide … Read more
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” Pierre Diehard de Chardin “(love) is the totalising, unifying, healing force in the universe. And, just in virtue of … Read more
If you listen deeply, you can hear the pulse, it all begins with a pulse, a pulse that is you living in each moment. Notice how in each moment there is the silence of the gap, before the pulse of the next moment’s transcendental emergence; a building up of gaps and moments, each moment … Read more
Yuval Noah Harari has said that in the 21st century the challenge for the individual is to simply know yourself. Harari implies that in a an age where algorithms are increasingly more aware of our intentions and motivations it would be wise to look at our own biological algorithms and work on ways of making … Read more
Connecting to the Pulse of Freedom: The Work-ins of metaReality and Integral Life Practice, creating a metaPractice of Transformation and Emancipation. “Now how do we achieve this in the world of duality? And particularly, how do we achieve it for collective action? We can become one within ourselves by getting rid of the heteronomies within … Read more
With the response to the terrorist attack in Manchester and London I was struck with the extreme use of the word Love, When confronted with a moment of pure hatred, we need to become more extreme in how we allow the flourishing of Love. Not only as a way of reminding each other, that humanity … Read more
For 10 years I have, as a dramatherapist, run workshops and retreats that one could call spiritual, or transpersonal. The aim of my work is to assist the experience of non-duality. However, my greatest frustration was when the west took the eastern spiritual tradition concept of non-duality and spoke of it as being an … Read more