January 6th 2021
Seeking holy wells for our time
Justine Huxley reflects on a New Year’s Day pilgrimage, shares an experience of ritual, and leaves us with an unanswered question about the source of spiritual regeneration in our times. This year I celebrated New Year following traditional Japanese practices. I read about these practices many years ago when…
December 17th 2020
A Handbook for Survivalists: Chaos
Chaos: This guest blog by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is an excerpt from his new downloadable e-book, A Handbook for Survivalists: Caring for the Earth, a Series of Meditations. The handbook is about the values we need to survive this time of radical uncertainty as we help to seed a future in…
December 14th 2020
The peace maker is always a contrarian: on Christmas adverts and culture war
Clare Martin writes about the moral courage it takes to stand up inside our own echo chambers and make a stand for listening to the other side. With the holiday season upon us, our TVs are full of the usual heart-string-pulling adverts, like the Sainsbury’s one that showed the Christmas…
December 2nd 2020
Forging unity in the wreckage
Justine Huxley writes about the potential for crisis to reconnect us with what matters most. Can we use crisis to strip away what is false and put us back in touch with the values fundamental to human life? Where will we find the courage to walk that journey? And crucially,…
August 26th 2020
A time of fire and smoke: What story are we living?
In this guest blog, Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee writes about radical uncertainty, while watching the Californian wildfires come closer to his home. As the smoke from wildfires fill the air I wonder at this moment in time. Since the pandemic began, time itself has taken on a quality…