Tag: psychology
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Druidry and Having an Open Heart
All art by Lana Sham “Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness.” Munia Khan Something the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids taught me was how to be more…
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Walking Between Worlds
Cover art by John Anster Fitzgerald “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung One foot on a goat, one foot on a well. There’s an ongoing negotiation in my life between being here, and being somewhere else. There’s…
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Everything We Need to Know is Already Here
If some stranger from unknown lands, or indeed some alien entity, should arrive in the midst of Western civilisation today; they could be forgiven for believing that the purpose of human existence is to make and spend money. For the most part, human lives are dominated by the need to work, to generate money for…
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Moving Towards a New Reality
As a child I instinctively rejected the way I saw the world going, in fact I remember arguing with my parents around the age of 11 or 12 about what life is meant to be about. I was rather dismissive I suppose of those that have laboured for an average car, average house and all…
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Shining Your Light in the Darkness
These are dark times that we are living in both in a literal sense due to the winter time (in the northern hemisphere) and also in a metaphorical sense due to the unprecedented changes that are occurring in human society at the moment. The cycles of the year are predictable, winters may be harder than…