What do we know about other religions, or for that matter the religion we call our own? My father was originally a Congregational Church minister, so I was raised as a Protestant. I learned a little bit about the Christian religion in childhood Sunday School classes, and I even attended a few Bible Study classes in my very early teens. After that, however, I was keen to embrace the secular
Following a conversation with someone I know, whose wife became “psychotic” several years ago, and has never recovered, I knew that my blog this week had to be about mental health. What do we know about mental health? In my opinion, not much. Psychiatrists and psychologists, know a lot about mental illness, but I would warrant that very few really know what “mental health” looks like. In 1973, the journal,
I was looking out for a sign for my blog this week, when I spied a Praying Mantis on my window. She is a rare visitor to my household, so I wondered if she had a message for me. In hindsight I could have asked her personally, using the skills that I learned during my animal communication courses, but, at the time, I was in a hurry to get my
I’ve just been enjoying a swim at the beach, and really appreciating the water, the sea breeze, and my body, which allowed me to swim. I realised that, like most people, I normally tend to take all these things for granted. The sea has always been there and always will be, won’t it? Well, maybe, but will it always be suitable for swimming? We know that there are so many
As often happens, my blog this week is inspired by a song (Heaven Is A Place On Earth, written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, and recorded by Belinda Carlisle). When I woke up with the song playing in my head, I thought this could be the subject of this week’s blog. When I heard it a little while later on the radio, I knew it was confirmation. I knew
In last week’s blog I wrote about redeveloping our abilities to follow our inner guidance. I would love it if everyone could learn to do this, because I know that it would make for happier and healthier lives for everyone. What we have to understand, though, is that if everyone is following their inner guidance, it doesn’t mean that everyone will automatically start thinking as we think, and believing as
I have just been reading an article in Cosmos, a magazine about the ‘science of everything’ (thanks Jennifer). The article was about tickling rats and making them laugh (rats laugh ultrasonically, apparently). It also talked about the laboratory rats exhibiting all of the same basic emotions as humans: fear, joy, anger, and love. Electrical stimulation of particular parts of the brain produced the same results in those laboratory rats, as
In Billie Dean’s Animal Whispers newsletter this week, she mentioned that she and a lot of other people were getting the feeling that “something big was getting closer. That it was time to step into our medicine. What Lightworkers and Wayshowers and Pioneers and Earthkeepers and Animal Warriors all came here to do. Be the Light.” I started to contemplate what my role in this might be. Although I know
I have read a lot of books in the last few years about consciousness, the mind, and the brain, and the links between them. Is the mind that which we call consciousness, and if so, where does it reside? A lot of people believe that the mind resides in the brain. Others believe that the mind is stored in every cell in our bodies. Yet others believe that our mind
When writing my book, Getting Used to Weird, I started looking for quotes from famous people which would illustrate my new beliefs. I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. Paul McCartney My character Angela’s conversations with angels, spirit guides, Jesus, and God, had led her away from a life of conforming to