One of my most precious experiences was seeing life through the eyes of soul during my past life regression. When I saw all the mistakes I had made and the terrible things that had happened in a past life, I saw them neutrally. At first I thought I had just gone numb, or that ‘I…
Leo Tolstoy
‘To die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the eternal source.’ – Leo Tolstoy
Adventures in the Food Trade
I could swear I met Laura years ago. She always said no. But in the 90s I attended endless fashion, design, film, book, TV, architecture and art cocktail parties for work. Laura was a catering manager who passed hors d’ouevres at exactly these kind of events. So there is a high likelihood we crossed paths. All…
Motherwort
Motherwort sounds like something dropped into the cauldron by the witches in Macbeth, ‘eye of newt, toe of frog..howlet’s wing..’ But this herb, whose Latin name is ‘lion heart’, is the perfect remedy for grief. Herbalist Robin Rose Bennett gave it to me when Laura was dying. She writes in her new book The Gift of…
Journeying On
Why is travel such a comfort after loss? Is it that being on the move gives shape and purpose to a life when there is no shape or purpose left? My first thought after Laura died was to cut free of my normal existance, which was in tatters, and take refuge in travel. I went…
Togetherness
Don and Maxine Simpson met in the1950s, fell in love and remained inseparable for the next 62 years. When they both got sick around the same time (Maxine with cancer and Don after a bad fall), their grand-daughter Melissa knew they couldn’t bear to be parted and put their beds side by side in her…
The Spiritual Mushroom
How do you take the sting out of death and make a terminal cancer patient feel peaceful about their imminent demise? Scientists at NYU, in New York, have developed a technique which is straight out of the Timothy Leary playbook. They are giving dying patients a single high dose of a hallucinogenic mushroom, which takes…
Swoon
I’ve come to believe that talking affectionately about departed loved ones conjures them up. It is like rubbing the lamp to summon the genie. A friend and I summoned her departed mother this week. We began by talking lovingly about her mother, did the steps of the reconnection ritual Sue Frederick taught me during the…
The Greatest Gift
The Greatest gift you can give to someone who is grieving is to let them talk about their departed loved on. It is something I know from my own experience, but it was a great comfort to hear Sue Frederick, an experienced grief coach, repeat it in her Grief Coaching workshop today For me it…
Inspired by Kathleen
Kathleen Blake is one of the most altruistic people I’ve met. She healed from thyroid cancer 28 years ago doing the Gerson Therapy and even though she is retired now and could be relaxing in her Sedona garden with her lovely Westie, Toby, she spends most days manning the Facebook Gerson Therapy Support Group page,…
Learning to Fly
My higher spirit was right. I really do learn through pain. I wish there was an easier route, but pain really gets my attention. And after wrenching my back before Xmas (see the post Crash), I was in the kind of pain where swearing a lot helped release some of the agony. So I did…
The Crash
In a year of extraordinary revelations and discoveries, the biggest awakening came with a bang just before Xmas. After doing the life between lives regression (see The Dance of Spirit), I felt as if I was on heroin. I floated through the world deliriously happy and filled with love. Then two days later, I crashed back…
Move Closer
If you need ideas for next Valentine’s day, you might want to take some tips from the animal world. Dancing, singing, kissing, applying lots of color; it seems animals use many of the same dating tactics as us (if the Beeb’s Animals in Love documentary is right). Take the wood spider, it does a pretty good…
Soul Love Forever 