Nature, art and spirituality can reduce disease. It has been long established that a healthy diet, sufficient sleep and physical exercise bolster the body’s defences against physical and mental illness. However, research is now showing the benefits of certain other activities. Psychologists at University of California, Berkeley have been studying a direct influence on health … Continue reading Preventing disease
Being pretentious can be due to seeking social acceptance, status or admiration. But it hinders authentic spiritual living. Don’t you just smile when you see someone with a ludicrous beard, use unnecessarily long words, speak with a very posh accent or wear very uncomfortable way-out clothes trying to look trendy? Name-dropping is an another example … Continue reading Pretentious people – why do we smile at them?
Lilith is an attractive figure. She is also a fictional entity in the American drama and horror television series Supernatural. The show features two brothers Sam and Dean who travel across the country in a black 1967 Chevrolet to hunt demons, supernatural creatures, and other paranormal entities, many of them based on folklore, myths, and … Continue reading Demons – need I be wary of them?
Now we know why God made rats. It was to rescue us humans from our own folly – our terrible invention of anti-personnel land mines. These were cruelly buried near the surface of the large areas of land in Angola and Mozambique. How to find them now the conflict is over? Well the answer is … Continue reading Why did God make rats?
You wait for the mouse but it doesn’t appear. You make a phone call but there is no answer. You’ve hurt your foot and can’t get on with some activity. It seems that having to suffer some delay, difficulty or discomfort is a common event in everyday life. Who doesn’t feel irritated by the frustrations … Continue reading Patience – how to feel less frustrated?
The disappointing terrorist attack of 9/11 was clearly not a blessing in disguise. Evil got its way and many people were very badly physically and emotionally hurt. Nor in any conceivable way can many a disappointing setback be described as a piece of good fortune even if tiny morsels of something positive might be salvaged … Continue reading Disappointment: a blessing in disguise?
A workshop using the recently published Apocalypse Card Set. · Enter the exciting world of the biblical Apocalypse. · Discover the mysteries revealed in the breaking open of the seal of the Book of Life. · Ride the winds of change with the four horsemen, and rejoice in the collapse of the evil city Babylon. … Continue reading Revelation!
Sacred writing is full of story, parable, prophetic vision and poetry, much of which is rich in imagery expressing, many would say, a sublime message. For example would you accept that the creation legend and its Bible images about the world being made in seven days is really allegory and not meant to be taken … Continue reading Bible images – How to understand?
Turn on the television news, look at your bank statement, listen to your friend’s woes. Faced with the basic problems of living who hasn’t despaired of things ever turning out okay? How are you to be delivered from all that is going wrong with the world – the hate and violence, crime, stress, family breakdown, … Continue reading Hope – But what to pin it on?
Swedenborg’s Lunars | Swedenborg Birthday Lecture 2015 Professor Simon Schaffer Saturday 24 January 2015 | Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH | Doors open and refreshments from 4.00 pm | Lecture starts at 4.30 pm. FREE ADMISSION, BUT BOOK IN ADVANCE! Although not widely known, Swedenborg spent many years trying to establish a … Continue reading Swedenborg’s Lunars