Psychology

A Tribute to Colin Wilson: Dreaming To Some Purpose

10/12/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson20 Comments

Colin Wilson was a prolific author, philosopher and novelist, producing over 120 books on a dizzying range of subjects. This is remarkable in itself, since early in his career, his publisher advised him to quit. Thankfully he possessed an unshakable self-belief, writing on everything from serial killers and crime, to psychology, the paranormal, UFOs, and… Continue reading A Tribute to Colin Wilson: Dreaming To Some Purpose

Buddhism

Path to Freedom: Right Action

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Review: Fearless Creating

09/12/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

Fearless Creating is a step-by-step guide to starting and completing your work of art, written by psychotherapist and creativity coach Eric Maisel. The book is packed with inspiration and guidance on the creative process and the problems you’re likely to come across along the way. It breaks the process down into six stages and goes… Continue reading Review: Fearless Creating

Book Reviews · Mysticism

The Way of Passion: Book Review

04/12/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

The Way of Passion: A Celebration of Rumi grew from a series of lectures given by Andrew Harvey at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1993. The lectures celebrated Rumi’s work as mystic, poet and prophet. Before giving the lectures, Harvey had a dream where he asked an old man in a mosque how he… Continue reading The Way of Passion: Book Review

Buddhism

Path to Freedom: Right Speech

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Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Brahman & Atman

30/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson5 Comments

Brahman is the Sanskrit word for the Ultimate Reality, the Supreme Being, or the Absolute. It is unchanging, unborn, unmanifest, and infinite. But Brahman is both transcendent and immanent; the ground from which all of manifest reality arises, including time and space. Brahman is omnipresent and is the spiritual source of the universe. In Hinduism… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Brahman & Atman

Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Jnana

30/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

Jnana is a Sanskrit word that means knowledge, particularly of the spiritual kind. It is used in many different Indian traditions. Jnana isn’t knowledge in the usual cognitive sense, but refers to knowledge embedded in the experience of the true nature of reality. It isn’t something that can be understood with the intellect because it is… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Jnana

Awakening · Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Moksha

30/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

Moksha is a Sanskrit word meaning liberation or release from illusion. It is freedom from the cycle of birth and death, or samsara. Moksha is achieved through the identification of your true Self or the true nature of reality, and can be gained through many different practices or paths, such as devotion or service to… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Moksha

Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Maya

30/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

Maya is a Pali and Sanskrit word meaning illusion or delusion. It is used most commonly to refer to the illusory appearance of the phenomenal world, but it also means the power through which the universe becomes manifest. Maya is the world of duality and relativity, the world of the conditioned and separate self. As… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Maya

Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Hinduism

30/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson5 Comments

Hinduism is the main religion in India and is the oldest major religion in the world, ranking third in popularity behind Christianity and Islam. The word Hindu comes from the Sanskrit Sindhu, the historical name for the Indus River in what is now Pakistan, and was first mentioned in the Rigveda. Hinduism is seen as a… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Hinduism

Buddhism

Path to Freedom: Right Thought

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Awakening · Buddhism · Spirituality

Spiritual Glossary: Nirvana

25/11/201326/06/2020 Jessica Davidson

Nirvana is Sanskrit and means to be extinguished or to blow out (as in blowing out a candle). It’s often interpreted to mean blowing out the flame of illusion, or the self. In Pali nirvana is spelt nibbana. Hinduism and Jainism also talk of nirvana as the state of moksha. Nirvana means freedom from suffering.… Continue reading Spiritual Glossary: Nirvana