Certainly, everyone reading this Newsletter has long felt in their hearts the call to something new and beautiful – the call to a better world and to a life richer in meaning and quality. We have been cultivating these aspirations over a long period of time and have prepared ourselves by committing to be protagonists [...]
Listening to National Public Radio in USA, three high school students from Maryland were being interviewed. They have printed a magazine that gives voice to the various opinions of their peers. They believe every voice and story needs to be heard otherwise how do we move through this time of polarization; how do we heal? [...]
There is a phrase in the spiritual teachings that powerfully yet synthetically describes this period into which we are now entering; this period of the Aquarian age in combination with the inpouring of a new ray energy, the energy of the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order and Magic. It states that “When the sun [...]
To be honest, in our heart of hearts we’ve always sensed it would be a race against time – a gnawing knowing that the waves of change set in motion by our polarizing beliefs and behaviors would eventually reach the shores of daily life and cause massive disruption. That time is now upon us and [...]
June 1970: Fiorenza discovers that she bears the ancient name of Florence, the "flourishing". She discovers it by spending a week there preparing the final exam at Art School. Intense days spent with Maria, her study friend, from early morning to evening, when they return to the Youth Hostel in via Santa Monaca, with their [...]
We perceive that profound and unprecedented changes are taking place on our planet Earth related to the end of a great cycle that is called the Age of Pisces and the transition to the Age of Aquarius. We can assume that the entire planetary organism is about to make a "quantum" leap in accordance with [...]
"Those who know that the Eternal lives in them and that they, and all things, are really the Eternal, inhabit the grove of miraculous trees, drink the dew of immortality, and hear the silent music of eternal harmony everywhere... " Joseph Campbell There is a story that has been told by a thousand voices, written [...]
Watching a red-tailed hawk rise and wheel in silent graceful arcs above Meditation Mount on a warm spring morning had me pondering on what really gives lift to our lives and can raise consciousness to new heights. What is the missing element that carries life ever upwards and liberates us from the gravitational pull of [...]
Our world is now and has long been filled with conflicts borne out of opposing views – what we might call polarised views. For example, I think this, you think the opposite. Or perhaps even more strongly – I believe this, and you believe that. There is an essential value in this polarisation in that [...]
Renaissance or cultural rebirth is something that history shows us is an intrinsic part of the human journey. Although we often refer to ‘the Renaissance’ as meaning the period in European history spanning the 15th and 16th Centuries where beautiful artworks and scientific insights were born, one can discover much written about other cultural rebirths [...]
