Cygnus Review, 2012 Issue 5

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Cygnus Review heal your body, feed your soul, free your mind, love your planet The 10 Secrets of Healthy Ageing Patrick Holford

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How to Grow Perennial Vegetables Martin Crawford

Resist Nothing Kim Eng Dying to be me Anita Moorjani Self Power Deepak Chopra The Labyrinth of Time Anthony Peake Dogs Never Lie About Love Jeffrey Masson Eckhart Tolle’s Music for Inner Stillness

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ear Friends, We sometimes like turning cherished concepts on their head and then having a fresh look at them. You can learn a lot that way.

In this article, we thought we’d consider a concept that’s central to our philosophy – the concept of the Higher Self – and take a look at it from the other end of the telescope – the Higher Self ’s end – to see if we can discover something useful that we didn’t know before.

It’s commonly said – at least in holistic circles – that we need to listen to our Higher Self and allow ourselves to be guided by that higher power within our own microcosmic field; and that pretty much all the problems that flesh is heir to, come down to a failure to heed the voice of wisdom arising from our own innermost depths. We think of our Higher Self (or Christ Self ) as, well, ‘higher’, don’t we? Our own personal hologram of the Godhead. Complete where we are partial; perfect where we are imperfect; strong where we are weak; wise where we are foolish; all-seeing where we are, it has to be said, all-groping a lot of the time.

And of course all that is true.

A new type of being However, we were reflecting on this a few months ago when we had a sudden flash of awareness which, if you put it into words, would have sounded something like this: ‘Hey, hey, hey! Wait a minute. I need you just as much as you need me.’ And that hit us right between the eyes. ‘My Higher Self needs me?’

‘Why? How? What for?’

What is this ‘me’ that our Higher Self needs? It is a mind-body system, a conscious presence on the physical plane – a plane on which, owing to its greater density, the law of ‘like attracts like’ is not so immediately perceptible as it is on ‘higher’ planes, thus making possible the experience of a far greater range of contrasts, with all the pains and also the exquisite joys these can entail.

And why would our Higher Self want such an instrumentarium? Because of the stupendous opportunity for growth, learning and creativity that such an experience of contrasts can provide.

Because this opportunity of existence on the material plane provides a unique means to create a totally new type of

Your Higher Self Needs You divine being – a being that can express itself with equal fluidity and harmony on all levels of vibration, from the lowest to the highest; a being that can move from the experience of individuality to the experience of unity and back again with ease, as the occasion demands. And most importantly, a being who can carry the divine energies and blessings of the higher, more subtle planes right through into matter, without obstruction.

The great adventure Can we really participate in that as equals? Are we really providing our Higher Self with such a magnificent, irreplaceable opportunity? Well, yes and no. Yes, in that we are here on Earth, and

we are connected, however unconsciously, with our Higher Self. No, in that our lack of understanding often means that we get in the way of the process. So imagine how much more effectively we could participate in the evolution of this new type of being, if we really understood what we are doing, and did it with maximum consciousness and intent. We used to talk about becoming the servant of our Higher Self, rather than trying – as egos often do – to become the boss of our microcosmic system. But after that ‘Hey, hey, hey’ moment mentioned above, we started to see ourselves more as co-creators, collaborators in the great adventure of building of a new bodily Temple in which the higher and the lower are intertwined as one. So, from our new perspective, the human adventure looks more like a three-legged race (with two equals cooperating), and less like a formula one race (with a driver and a car).

Looking at ourselves from the angle of our Higher Self, we can see that all our foibles, the whole gamut of our character, all our desires and all our conditioning can be valuable, useful and lovable.

Indeed, if we look back over our past with clear eyes, we’ll be able to see how very many times our foibles and faults really have been useful in the greater scheme of things! So we do not need to feel trapped inside our so-called lower nature, as if in a strait-jacket, for when we see it from this higher perspective, it can clothe us much more loosely, like a coat that we can put on or take off at will. The important thing is just to see ourselves as we really are!

The royal ‘we’ So try feeling your Higher Self as your friend, rather than just as your guide; your friend who needs you just as much as you need him/her. How does that feel?

How does it make you feel about yourself? Do you notice how much lighter you feel, how much more confident, how much more safe, loved and free? You are a hero, every bit as much as your Higher Self, and your Higher Self celebrates you as such. It’s no small thing to pioneer this new way of being in matter! And, should you find yourself in dark times, where every bit of your heroism needs to be brought to bear, know that your Higher Self is right there with you, and with your cooperation will turn all things – as it always does – to the absolute, perfect Good. When you know this, it happens even faster.

So, to sum up, there is no need to walk behind your Higher Self at a respectful distance. You can walk side by side, with your head held high, and in that way discover what it means to be a ‘Friend of God’.

With all our love, Ann, Geoff and the Cygnus Team

Changes at Cygnus

By the time this reaches you, our editor, Sarah Portsmouth – who worked with us for 10 years – will have left Cygnus to start her own business. We will miss her greatly, especially as she has supported Ann so devotedly throughout her illness, doing things way beyond the call of duty. We are sure you would like to join us in thanking her wholeheartedly for all her efforts, and wish-­ ing her every happiness for the future.

Her place is taken by Carolyn Burdet, who has a great deal of experience in the mind body spirit field and is looking forward to sharing it with you!

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As Andrew Harvey brings his knowledge of Eastern religions, the Christian mystical tradi-­ tion and modern scholarship to bear on such subjects as love, adoration, silence, miracles, humility, grief and fear, you will find yourself profoundly inspired by his intensely practical yet visionary understanding of how we can bring our spirituality right into every corner of our daily lives. And you cannot fail to be moved by the essence of his message which is: ‘Turning to the light is not, in itself, enough. We have also to act as humble tireless agents of the light, on all possible spiritual and practi-­ cal fronts, wisely, calmly and very, very fast.’

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by Eckhart Tolle Why do our negative experiences seem to stay with us so persistently?

It is because they are the fuel for what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-­body, an energetic field that actually feeds on toxic thoughts and emotions. Libera-­ tion from the pain-­body is not about repressing or denying our thoughts. Instead, as Eckhart’s teaching partner Kim Eng reveals, we must develop a complete receptiveness to all experience – rejecting nothing, judging nothing and resist-­ ing nothing. On these two CDs, Eckhart and Kim present essential wisdom and practices for dissolving the pain-­body. Beginning with a 30-­minute exploration by Eckhart into the nature of the pain-­body, you will then learn five of Kim’s most effective guided meditations and on-­the-­spot practices for clearing blockages, releasing unhealthy attachments, and becoming fully present in any situation.

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Anita Moorjani ‘I feel incredible! I’m so free and light. No more pain. My surroundings are moving away from me. I don’t feel fear any more …’

After fighting cancer for four years, my body was overwhelmed by the malignant cells and my organs began shutting down.

Although I was in a coma I was acutely aware of everything happening around me, including the sense of emergency and emotional frenzy of my family as they rushed me to hospital.

‘It’s too late to save her.’

‘Who is the doctor talking about?’

I thought. ‘I’ve never felt better in my life!’

I wanted to hug my mother and comfort her. ‘Don’t cry, I’m fine.

Look, I can move around without my wheelchair. After four agonising years, I’m healed! I feel so beautifully peaceful and calm.’

I then understood that even if my physical body stopped, everything is still perfect in the greater tapestry of life, for we never truly die.

Fear of dying During my Near Death Experience I experienced so much clarity. It may come across sounding as though those who don’t recover or who still have cancer or other illness are in some way lesser than those who heal. This is not true!

Anyone who hasn’t healed is a magnificent person. The reasons for their illness lie in their personal journey.

We come into this life knowing our magnificence but this gets eroded (in some of us).

This starts subtly with little anxieties about not being liked or not being good enough. I feared disapproval. I was a people pleaser; and in the process I lost myself. I was

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completely disconnected from who I was or what I wanted, because everything I did was to win approval. If anyone had asked me what I wanted in life I would not have known.

The most frequent question people ask me is why I think I got cancer. The answer in one word is: fear. I was afraid of failing, being disliked, letting people down, not being good enough. I feared illness, cancer and treatment for cancer.

I was afraid of living, and I was afraid of dying. Then I was diagnosed with cancer.

lead to healing. I tried a vegan diet and I read every book I could about cancer.

Despite all this my cancer got worse. My mind was in total confusion; I continued to lose myself, trying everything to stay alive while my body continued to disintegrate.

My body stopped absorbing nutrients and my muscles wasted away until I couldn’t walk any more; a wheelchair was my only form of mobility.

I attended spiritual healing groups and was told that this was my choice. I can’t begin to describe the

Faith healing and forgiveness I went through the motions of doing everything I could, but in the back of my mind I believed I wasn’t going to make it. Even though I seemed to be fighting my disease, I believed that cancer was a death sentence. I opted for alternative healing because I felt with conventional medicine I was doomed.

I tried faith healing, praying, meditation on mountain tops, yoga, ayurveda, chakra balancing, energy healing, and I worked on forgiveness therapy. I travelled through India and China meeting Buddhist monks, Indian yogis and enlightened masters, hoping they would help me find answers that would

terror I was experiencing day after day. I’d been trying so hard to do all the forgiving, cleansing, healing, praying, and meditating that I could.

After cancer had ravaged my body for four years I was too weak to hold on. The next step was death.

That’s when I went into a coma, my organs shut down and I began plunging towards death.

Coming back – coming home I didn’t feel I needed to do anything in particular to enter the other realm, pray, chant, use mantras or forgiveness. Moving on was closer to doing absolutely nothing.

The realm I experienced allowed me to see my own power and

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Dying to be Me magnificence, undistorted by fear. I became aware of greater power I had access to.

I understood I was dying because of all my fears. I understood that cancer wasn’t a punishment. It was just my own energy manifesting as cancer because my fears weren’t allowing me to express myself as the magnificent force I was meant to be. This understanding made me realise I no longer had anything to fear. I made a powerful choice – to come back.

I came back with the understanding that heaven truly is a state and not a place, and I’ve found that bliss has followed me here to Earth. I know this sounds really strange, but I even feel that our ‘true home’ is also only a way of being and not a location. Right now, I feel that I’m home. I have no desire to be anywhere else. It makes no difference to me now whether I’m here or in the other realm. It’s all just different parts of the experience of our greater, expanded, infinite, magnificent self.

Our real home is within each of us and follows us wherever we go.

Why we are here If every single person suddenly became aware of their true perfection and magnificence – let’s say that everyone on the planet had a spiritually transformative experience – our manifest world would change to reflect that new state. People would be more self-empowered and far less fearful and competitive, which would lead to more tolerance for each other.

Crime rates would drop dramatically. Our immune systems would be stronger from less stress and fear, so there would be fewer illnesses. Priorities would change because we’d no longer be driven by greed, which is another facet of fear. Children would grow up being love – being stronger, healthier and more trusting. They’d live on a planet that naturally supports this way of life rather than in a place that’s hostile to it.

Despite this vision, I don’t feel the need to change anyone else, let alone the world. Going out and altering things suggests I judge them to be wrong, therefore I need to fix them to match my own vision or ideaology. Instead, everything is as it should be at this point in time. I know my only work is to be. My job here is to be myself – an expression of the love

If a guru, teacher or master makes you feel that you aren’t ‘yet’ enlightened and still have more to ‘learn’, ‘release’, or ‘let go of ’ before getting there, then they’re not doing a good job of teaching you who you truly are, or you’re misunderstanding them.

Remind everyone close to you to be themselves, and tell them that you love them just the way they are! They’re perfect and so are you.

There’s nothing not to love. Most suffering stems from feeling ‘less than’. You aren’t less than anything or anyone! You are complete.

The only thing you need to learn is that you already are what you’re seeking to attain. Just experess your uniqueness fearlessly, with abandon!

That’s why you’re made the way you are, and that’s why you’re here in the physical world.

From Dying to be Me, © 2012 by Anita Moorjani, published by Hay House.

that I am – and to see the perfection in myself, others, and the world around me as I continue to live in the physical plane. That’s all that any of us needs to be.

My most important message If there were one message or lesson from my NDE that I wish everyone could know and understand, something that I wish I could shout out from the rooftops, it would be this: I would want you to know that every part of you is magnificent – your ego, intellect, body and spirit. It’s who you are – a beautiful product of this Universe’s creation. Every aspect of you is perfect. There’s nothing to let go, nothing to forgive, nothing to attain. You already are everything you need to be. It can seem so complicated, but it’s not.

If a religion makes you feel lesser than its deities, then you’ve either misinterpreted it or it’s not doing a good job of teaching you the truth.

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On regaining consciousness, Anita’s condition improved so rapidly that she was released from hospital within weeks, without a trace of cancer in her body, defying medical knowl-­ edge. She had the realisation that there are miracles in the Universe that she had never even imagined. In Dying to Be Me, Anita shares all she has learned about illness, heal-­ ing, fear, being love, and the true magnificence of each and every human being. This book sings that we are spiritual beings having a hu-­ man experience ... and that we are all One. 208pp, 152mm x 228mm, softback, 2012, RRP £10.99

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PHILOSOPHY FOR LIFE: AND OTHER DANGEROUS SITUATIONS Jules Evans

What a brilliant idea! In Philosophy for Life, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy rescued him from a bout of depression, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes twelve of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the world has ever known. Each of these ancient philosophers teaches a technique we can use to transform ourselves and live better lives. These practical techniques are illustrated by the stories of real people who are using them today – from marines to magicians, from astronauts to anarchists. Lively, funny and inspiring, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.

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DARING TO TRUST: OPENING OURSELVES TO REAL LOVE & INTIMACY David Richo

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LESSONS FOR THE LIVING Stan Goldberg

There is nothing like living at the sharp end of life for teaching you wisdom that has the power to liberate others as well as yourself. This is what Stan Gold-­ berg found when, as a cancer patient himself, he chose to face his fears by helping others who were already in the process of dying from the illness. In this book he tells their stories, which shine a brilliant light on our human capacity for beauty, insight, forgiveness and gratitude, and on the indomitable spirit that ena-­ bles us to approach anxiety and sadness with bravery and love.

What Stan ultimately discovered – and shares here – was not lessons in dying, but rather, lessons in how to live with greater joy, greater peace and greater understanding.

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DOGS NEVER LIE ABOUT LOVE Jeffrey Masson Dogs dream, see in colour, smell electric storms, their sense of smell is a hundred million times more acute than ours and they are so sensitively attuned to it that they feel scent as emotion. Jeffrey Masson takes us into the world of dog senses and emotions and explores why we cherish dogs, and the loving bond between a dog and their human family.

With touching anecdotes, dog psychol-­ ogy, and research facts, Masson comments on complex emotions like embarrassment, remorse, broken trust and forgiveness, and explores a pet dog’s protectiveness and emotional bond of love and loyalty. He explains that the reason why dogs and humans have such an intense bond is because they understand one another’s emotional responses.

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COMMUNICATING WITH ANIMALS Margrit Coates

Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, says psychotherapist David Richo. Whether it’s fear of commitment, insecurity, jealousy, or a tendency to be con-­ trolling, the real obstacle is a fundamental lack of trust in ourselves and in our partner.

Developing trust in ourselves is the basis for trusting others. Daring to Trust explains how we learn early in life to trust others (or not to trust them), how to know if someone is trustworthy;; and what to do when trust is broken. Richo suggests loving kindness rather than raw honesty, and explores the boundaries of privacy in a relationship. Ultimately, we must develop trust: towards ourselves, towards others, towards life as it is, and towards a higher power or spiritual path. These types of trust are the basis of healthy relationships, and the foundation of emotional well-­being and freedom from fear. A beautifully published hardback book at a very special price.

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In her new book she draws upon her amaz-­ ing experiences and special gift to help us connect with animals too. Using intuition, insight and common-­sense, she shows how to tune into mental images of what they are thinking and feeling, helping us bond at an incredibly deep level. Her techniques range from communicating with our furry or feathered friends at home, to larger animals like horses.

We also see how healing beyond animal behaviour and psychol-­ ogy helped Anne the traumatised elephant who was rescued from a circus. Besides practical exercises, Communicating with Animals is brimming with heart-­warming stories, each with a life lesson: to open our mind, look beneath the surface and be flexible – making it a great read and a truly inspirational guide.

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SOUL THERAPY Joy Manne

In this caring guide, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Joy Manne suggests a new approach to psychological healing. She says that, if we distinguish between the Ego, the focus of Western psychotherapy, and the Soul, the spiritual/ethical part of one’s consciousness, we can arrive at a much more harmonious and balanced approach to therapy. She says that, ‘when Ego is in communication with Soul, we honour the Earth and all beings.’ Manne envisions the Soul as a creative, healing inner shaman whose wisdom and guidance will help us along our life-­path. Blending a number of contemporary therapies with ancient practices of purification and breathwork, Manne teaches us new ways of living which are at the same time more skillful... and more soulful.

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sotericists describe money as ‘concretised energy’. It is energy vibrating very slowly and is neither good nor evil.

Practitioners of white magic will recognise the theme: It is our relationship with money that defines our values and our actions in relation to money that define ourselves.

Confronting our financial insecurities Money exhorts reactions. It can be a force for good, a flow of liquid golden light that can facilitate and heal, but it is often the concretised energy that defines the attachments and illusions we accept as real. Claire Rayner, who grew up in poverty, once said that it is more frightening than being hungry, cold and having no stable home. There is something obscene about real poverty.

Sometimes, however, we are irrationally fearful of being poor and this fear mistakenly drives our materialism. Dare to Care is about confronting our own irrational insecurities about not having enough money and reframing our work with what can be a difficult energy. We can transform money into a golden liquid energy that can flow where it is needed in the world. It doesn’t have to be trapped in form like concrete.

In her Foreword Hazel Henderson, a social and economic pioneer for four decades, starts this book off with a bang.

She describes how she has avoided the vain trap of forming a grand institute with big offices and worked over her garage all these years, becoming ‘… a strand of cultural DNA, a living, stable molecule of information that does not grow, but replicates itself.’ She sees economics as ‘truly a dysfunctional strand of cultural DNA, replicating misinformation in our body politic, which needed teasing out and correcting…’ This she has done, exposing the myth of perpetual economic growth in a world of finite resources, introducing systems thinking and concepts like social responsibility and the ‘love economy’ to the financial realms.

She describes a cake of four layers. The

two top layers are of total productivity, the private and public sectors, and they rest on two lower layers ignored by economists: the ‘Love Economy’ of unpaid work, and Nature’s Productivity (topography, climate, agriculture and the basic productivity of ecosystems).

A care-based economy Louis Bohtlingk takes these ideas and develops a framework to help us work together to resolve our global financial and economic crisis. This isn’t a book about manifesting personal abundance (i.e. visualizing more cash in your life) but a resource manual. It sets out to: Help people work in vocations they love; provide the basic human rights of a home, food, education and healthcare for everyone in the world, not just for the privileged few; to embrace the concept of a global financial commons, a place where we establish a conscience about the effect of financial transactions on the well-being of people, our communities and the Earth and are held accountable for those actions (even through regulation); to establish the right set up of our monetary system, whether we decide to use the currencies we have or create new ones (complementary systems).

This explores the debt-based system we have with its compound interest and its (dis) functionality.

The critical aim of the book is to question our sense of financial insecurity – our money first, care second values. The majority of us are millionaires in the eyes of the developing world so why are we so obsessed with money? Our money crisis is a crisis of consciousness. We are called to use money in service of the well-being of people and the Earth, to ‘dare to care’ first, worry about our personal wealth second. By doing so we will transform our fear based financial systems, attract the energies of the ‘love economy’ and preserve nature’s abundance.

It is no accident that Cygnus has published a special book club edition of this book for you all. For over two decades Ann and Geoff Napier have bravely challenged the economic status quo with their work, promoting gentle, empowering and spiritually expanding ways of living. Financial gain

has always been a very low priority.

Serving the greater good I know from my own work that the message of this book is true. If we serve the greater good, money is transformed from concrete to liquid gold so that it can flow where it is so desperately needed. Now is the time for us to reframe our attitudes to money and material gain to relieve the terrible suffering of the people in our ‘two thirds’ world and to enable us to live within our ecological limits.

We have to change the dominant cultural narrative that unending economic growth is possible and that our society’s wellbeing is based primarily on material wealth. After we have catered for our basic needs, these beliefs are simply not true. Change the narrative and we can redesign our financial systems to serve the world, not plunder it.

Maddy Harland is the co-founder and editor of Permaculture Magazine – inspiration for sustainable living – exploring practical and inspirational solutions for a better world. www.permaculture.co.uk EXCLUSIVE CYGNUS EDITION

DARE TO CARE Louis Bohtlingk The message of this book could not be more appropriate or timely.

Louis Bohtlingk offers an inspiringly simple yet far-­reaching idea for transforming our economy and the world of finance so that it supports, rather than undermines, our human needs and those of our planet. He suggests that, by changing the way we think and feel about money, transforming our approach from a money-­first to a care-­first attitude, we can all help to create a better world in which greed and fear no longer dominate our financial decisions, and caring and compassion become our primary guides when making money-­related choices. Bohtlingk shares his vision for a love-­based economy and a care-­ first world, using examples of businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals who have made this approach work for them and those they serve. Through Dare to Care you will come to view finance and economics from a new perspective, one which urges you to reorganize your approach to money and so become empowered to act and achieve a care-­first worldview.

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Self Power: Spiritual Solutions to Life’s Great Challenges

ife brings challenges. Is life simply a random series of events that keeps us off balance and barely able to cope, or is there a reason for this? Spirituality says the reason that challenges arise is to make you more aware of your inner purpose.

Three levels of awareness If this is true, there should be a spiritual answer to every problem.

The answer doesn’t lie at the level of the problem, even though most people focus their energies at this level. The spiritual solution lies beyond.

When you take your awareness outside the place where struggle is ever-present, two things happen: your awareness expands, and with that, new answers begin to appear. When our awareness expands, we can see that events are not random. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you.

Every time a challenge comes your way there are three levels of awareness.

Level 1 is contracted awareness. No matter how hard I work at something, no matter how hard I try, everything in my life seems stuck. No matter how I reach out for others, no matter how much I meditate or contribute. This is the level of the problem. There is an underlying anxiety and fear of failure.

You can tell if you are at this level because as you struggle to get free of the problem you become trapped by it.

One example of contracted awareness is complete denial of ‘higher’ reality.

Level 2 is expanded awareness. This is the level where solutions begin to appear. Your vision extends beyond the conflict, giving you more clarity.

For most people this level of awareness isn’t available because their first reaction to a problem is to see it as a crisis. They contract and become wary. If you allow yourself to expand, you meet fears realistically. With more clarity you no longer feel confused or conflicted. With expansion unseen forces come to your aid. More people

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connect with you, and you allow them more input. You can tell you have reached this level of awareness when you no longer feel stuck.

Level 3 is pure awareness. At this level no problems exist, every challenge is a creative opportunity. You feel aligned with the forces of nature.

What makes this possible is awareness, that can expand without limits.

At every moment pure awareness is

BOOK CIRCLE CHOICE SELF POWER: SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS TO LIFE’S GREAT CHALLENGES Deepak Chopra In challenging times it can seem as if we have very little control over our lives. Yet with expanded awareness we can shift beyond feeling stuck or despairing, to face each day with new hope. We can find the resources within us to access our inner power and take practical steps to reshape our life with greater love and confidence. With this new expanded awareness we will see that we are still in charge of our destiny. As the stuck-­ ness shifts we attract helpful solutions to us. Self Power is a fluent, inspired offering from Deepak Chopra who stands out as one of the leading thinkers in the world on the healing of mind body and soul. His latest book is a gift, combining his compassion for our mundane worries with inspiration for living with a spiritual awareness of life that expands our options and changes our reality.

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in contact with you, sending creative impulses. When you are open to these answers, the is no conflict, no struggle. The next thing you want is the best thing that could happen. You view the world with compassion and you feel safe. Your desires reach fulfilment spontaneously. This is a state of unity with everything in existence.

You can tell you are in contact with pure awareness if you feel truly yourself, in a state of peace and freedom.

Awareness isn’t passive The way you perceive a problem will inevitably blend with how you try to solve it. You respond to a situation through various aspects of awareness.

If you are able to examine your state of awareness, five aspects emerge: your perceptions, beliefs, assumptions, expectations, feelings.

When someone is self aware, you can ask them about what their assumptions are, what they expect from you, how their core beliefs are affecting the situation, and you won’t get a defensive reaction. You’ll be told the truth.

When you base your life on the reality of the soul, and take the level of the soul to be the basis of life, spirituality becomes an active principle. The soul is awakened.

However, a mind blocked by anxiety or worry isn’t able to experience expanded awareness.

For countless people life feels like that. Feelings of numbness or depression can make life seem to stop; so can sudden loss or failure. But the potential to heal is never worn away completely.

Change and transformation are your birthright, guaranteed by the indestructible basis of life. Life is in a continual process of change. Even when we are feeling stuck, our cells are still processing the basic materials of life continuously.

Each of us is entangled in a world view we call real. There is no separation between a thought, and the body’s reaction to it as it receives messages from the brain, and an action. So when you speak and act you are causing a ripple that is felt in the flow of life. Genes are not nouns, they are verbs. Your life at the moment is a process that involves thoughts, feelings, brain chemicals, the body’s responses, information, social interactions, relationships and ecology.

Because pure awareness lies at the basis of everything the most powerful way to change your life is to begin with your awareness.

From Self Power, © 2012 by Deepak Chopra, published by Rider.

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ANGEL MEDICINE Doreen Virtue

A three-­part work relating the story of Doreen Virtue’s recovery of memories of Atlantean healing methods, along with messages from Hermes – the Egyptian and Greek prophet and deity – and the angels. In part one Doreen describes her travels to Santorini, Athens, Glastonbury, Stonehenge and Ireland, and the discoveries she made there about heal-­ ing methods in Atlantean times. In part two, Doreen shares fascinating information about the use of crystals, light, colour and prayer in angelic healing, illustrating what she has to say with anecdotes and stories. In the final part of the book, Doreen imparts methods for chakra clearing, etheric cord cutting, ‘vacuuming’ with Archangel Michael, curse and dagger lifting, shielding and psychic protection, entity and earthbound spirit removal, severing vows and surrounding yourself with angels for a good night’s sleep. She also gives more information about working with crystals, and explains how to do an angel colour reading.

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THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF Bruce Lipton This book will forever change the way we think about the connection between mind and matter.

Hailed as a major breakthrough, The Biology save 40%! of Belief presents scientific evidence showing that genes and DNA do not control our biology.

Instead, Bruce Lipton shows that genes are turned on and off by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanat-­ ing from our positive and negative thoughts.

His discoveries have huge importance for our beliefs, shattering the old myth that we are frail biochemical machines controlled by genes, and giving convincing, scientific support to the understanding that we are powerful creators of our lives and the world in which we live. Dr Lipton shows how our beliefs, true or false, positive or negative, affect genetic activity and actually alter our genetic code. His profoundly hopeful work gives important clues as to how we can retrain our consciousness to create healthy beliefs, and by doing so create lasting, positive results in our bodies and our lives.

224pp, 152mm x 228mm, illus. in b&w, softback, 2006, RRP £9.99 Code: 160801 Cygnus Price: £5.99 save 72%!

VOICES OF FLOWERS Rhonda Pallas Downey

Rhonda Pallas Downey shares what she has learned about how to build powerful relationships with plants and flowers as teach-­ ers, healers and friends.

With her guidance, you’ll learn how to tune into the nature spirit of a plant, and experience its voice – its songs, messages and exaltation when its flower is at its peak.

You’ll find that these messages will awaken you to your innate wisdom, bringing you closer to your core essence and facilitating healing and renewal. Sensitively written, this book also includes a set of beautifully illustrated pull-­out cards for connecting and healing with the plant kingdom, to access the beauty and strength of the human spirit.

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THE 10 SECRETS OF HEALTHY AGEING Patrick Holford Getting older doesn’t mean an inevitable decline – this book will help you learn save 40%! how to stay fit and age well. Changes in nutrition and lifestyle can keep your cells working at a healthy level much longer and that can help you avoid chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. As people age, their doctors often prescribe a mixture of medi-­ cines, which can cause other health prob-­ lems. This book uses the science behind healthy ageing to show you how you can support your health. Learn what causes brain shrinkage, and discover the truth about cholesterol and statins. The 10 Secrets of Healthy Ageing is a practical guide to a low glycaemic diet, vitamin and mineral supplements and lifestyle tips that can increase longevity and help you look and feel younger and age healthily.

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500 OF THE HEALTHIEST RECIPES & HEALTH TIPS YOU’LL EVER NEED Hazel Courteney & Stephen Langley Most nutritional scientists and doctors now save agree that as much as 85% of our health 40%! problems could be prevented or cured – sim-­ ply by changing our diet. This cutting-­edge guide to good eating contains 500 recipes and tips to help keep you healthier, more en-­ ergetic, less stressed and younger for longer.

You will discover tips and recipes that target a particular area – from immunity-­boosting foods, anti-­allergy foods, and anti-­cancer foods to foods that are good for the heart, circulatory, and digestive systems – as well as brain foods and sections that focus on health problems particular to men and women. With 500 of the Healthiest Recipes and Health Tips You’ll Ever Need, you will become more informed about your health and wellbeing and discover the joy of cooking food that you know is good for you and your family.

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SPIRITUAL MEDICINE Laurie Leah Levine

The core message of this book is that in order to achieve healthier bodies, lives and relation-­ ships we need to begin by learning how to love ourselves. In her work as a nurse, NLP teacher and healer, Laurie Leah Levine has observed a common link between all her patients and cli-­ ents: they all want love in their lives more than anything, yet it is the one thing they push away.

She has come to the conclusion that there is a direct link between the absence of love and how much pain people are experiencing, whether in their bodies or their lives. Jam-­packed with techniques and information for healing and making life changes, Spiritual Medicine will show you how, by building your sense of self-­ worth and self-­acceptance and making some simple health and lifestyle changes, you can make huge strides towards relieving your pain and experiencing greater joy, however deep your difficulties.

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Claire Nahmad

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he kick-ass angels are coming! We have fallen asleep in a too-bland, fuzzy, wish-fulfilling dream of angels, and we need to wake up.

Putting a few things straight Kick-ass angels are not negative in any way; they desire only our progress and our awakening. They are not bullies or tyrants.

Under no circumstances do they champion soul destruction, ungraciousness and contempt for sensitivity and finer feelings.

They do not assume a critical or judgmental stance. They are not punitive, they do not chastise, they do not in any way use severity inappropriately – but they are kick-ass angels!

They are to do with releasing loving, positive free flow into negativity and devotedly nurtured old complexes. They are to do with cleansing, exorcism on many subtle levels, casting out fears and self-imposed limitations, changing stifling psychic air, identifying and challenging addictions and ingrained habits, and letting the winds of the spirit blow freely, like a bracing mountain breeze.

When we find ourselves suffering from subtle lethargy, stultification, blockages and stuck situations; when we seem unable to make progress and repeatedly encounter the same set of problems and circumstances; when our eye slips off the ball concerning our higher aspirations, we need to bring in the kick-ass angels.

When we feel our backs are against the wall, or that we are sinking in a steadily encroaching sea of inevitability, we call on the kick-ass angels.

When we snuggle into self-complacency and our spiritual vision becomes shallow; when materialism and triviality threaten to hijack it, we can by prior arrangement give the kick-ass angels the go-ahead to intervene. When we feel resigned and hopeless, and the vital spark of our true self is dim and feebly flickering, it is time to summon the kick-ass angels.

Dragon essence – flame of spirit Kick-ass angels are connected with our dragon essence. This sacred serpent essence is the magical flame of spirit that lies buried in our depths, in our soul. It is the sun within us. It breathes forth fire, and is a creature that lives and moves and has its being in the light. It is our purest, highest essence – the dragon essence within. It is our light body, our light being. It transforms us and our world.

It is connected to the kundalini energy that eastern adepts see as a coiled golden

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The Time of the Kick-Ass Angels serpent dwelling in the chakra or power centre at the base of the spine. But it is not this sacred kundalini force we call on in order to connect to our dragon essence.

Our higher and true dragon consciousness dwells as a flame in the heart. Summoning the kundalini serpent is dangerous and can lead to disastrous consequences. It can drive a soul mad, or apply the bellows of violence and aggression to its dimensions. The kundalini can all too easily feed itself into the belly of the lower dragon with its hideous BOOK FOR GIVING: MULTI-­BUY OFFER

KICK-­ASS ANGELS Claire Nahmad When life is not all sweetness and light, and when we come up against internal obstacles and blind spots that do not respond to our efforts to remove them, we can call on the clarity and perseverance of the kick-­ass angels to instil in us courage, in-­ tegrity and endurance, to guide our way through the confusion of darkness and misinformation in power around the globe. The emphasis with kick-­ass angels is on motivation, action, removing obstacles within us, exorcising our fears and demons, so that we can make per-­ sonal progress. Writing in a way that spans Zoroastrian philosophy on the roles of angels with biblical, mythical and historical allegory about the Emerald tablet and spiritual al-­ chemy, Claire Nahmad suggests how to use our integrity to see the truth. She reminds us that when the going gets tough we can call on the kick-­ass angels as light bringers to dispel shadows and pulsate love.

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rampaging strength arising from the forces of materialism. This lower dragon ever seeks to lock human beings in its coils and drag them off to its stinking lair. It is the dragon that St George, Archangel Michael, and other great guardians, are portrayed as ‘slaying’, or, more accurately, piercing through with spiritual consciousness so that it becomes transformed and offers up its imprisoned victims as well as releasing its own unique light.

After we become consummate with our true dragon consciousness, the kundalini looks after itself, and is stimulated naturally and safely.

Becoming the Pendragon When we call on the kick-ass angels, we call on our true dragon essence to arise and

irradiate our consciousness. We become the Pendragon, literally the ‘head dragon’, which has three meanings.

The first is that our dragon essence has become our king or queen, our supreme ruler within. The second is that our dragon essence has risen from its throne in our heart to our head, to throw off supernal radiance from those two centres – the heart and the head – so that there is no misunderstanding or disconnection between them. They work and act in supreme harmony. The third is that the dragon of light within our deepest soul, in claiming its true inheritance as leader and inspirer and elected authority, has gloriously overcome the usurping dragon of the elemental forces. This is the lower saurian, the reptilian worm of wrath, who seeks to tyrannically oppress us and keep us in chains of enslavement in matter.

The kick-ass angels are those that foster, encourage and facilitate this process of overcoming the lower saurian. They are angels of the sacred light, of the golden serpent essence. They are the awakeners of the stars of measureless radiance that dwell deep within us.

Encountering these life-transforming angels of dynamic spiritual force allows us to locate our ‘prison cells’ and overturn the sentences we have, often unwittingly, imposed upon ourselves. They fathom our darkest, most fetid dungeons and unbind the aspects of us that dwell there, heavily manacled, in chains. They are unafraid of the gravest, unspoken, most horrifying secrets we may have buried in lonely places of denial and sad isolation.

Angels of resolution The kick-ass angels are angels of resurrection, revolution and resolution. They are a burst of life everlasting. Their potency is in their wake-up call, for, as they themselves have intimated, the kick-ass angels are angels of awakening.

We need their help in our daily lives and our personal lives. We need their help to fulfil our potential. We need their help in realising our spiritual selves. And we need their help collectively at this point in our history. Without the aid of the kick-ass angels, the transformation of the future cannot begin.

The kick-ass angels stand ready to transform sentimentality into a true heartpiercing by the sacred lance, to sweep aside banality and offer instead the light of direct energetic transformation via our encounters with angels. They bring us the power of will to sacrifice indulgence of the lower mind in favour of a higher aspiration, and to become a receptacle for the spiritual and angelic consciousness that is our birthright.

From Kick-Ass Angels, © 2012 by Claire Nahmad, published by Watkins.

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ANCIENT MYSTERIES, MODERN SOLUTIONS THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE ORACLE CARDS Sonia Choquette

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These oracle cards provide immediate access to your Divine Spirit, where you receive specific guidance for any challenges facing you in life. Each card not only offers direction for particular problems, it also reinforces the path to your Higher Self, freeing you from the turbulence and fear of the ego plane. You can use this deck and the accompanying guidebook for specific direction, meditation, and life and purpose readings for yourself or oth-­ ers, as well as to connect to your Divine Self, where drama and stress give way to joy and inner peace.

62 full-­colour cards, 133pp guidebook, 99mm x 140mm boxed set 2009, RRP £11.99 Code: 220524 Cygnus Price: £7.25

SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET BOOKE David Ovason In Shakespeare’s Secret Booke, David Ovason explores and deciphers a mysteri-­ save ous numerological code used widely in 60%! the esoteric literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Shakespeare was masterful in such encoding;; as were many other users. This, argues Ovason, points to a secret teaching designed to be recog-­ nised by initiates. He reveals that many of the leading esoteric writers – alchemists, occultists and Rosicrucians – contributed to this secret booke, and together they formed a remarkable underground literary movement, using the code especially in reference to the mystery of the Ego, or the higher, invisible Self. One such person was Shake-­ speare’s contemporary, the youthful Johann Valentin Andreae, credited as author of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz [210906] – a Rosicrucian work replete with sophisticated examples of encoding.

How did they do it, and what were the all-­important messages?

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TIME STANDS STILL Keith Critchlow

This intriguing book will leave you in no doubt that there was a sacred motive and inspira-­ tion behind the construction of stone circles and other megalithic structures. Among the evidence he offers, Keith Critchlow takes ancient temple-­building manuals from Indian Vedic sources and shows the striking parallels between these and British megalithic sites. He also shows that, while the ancient peoples who built these structures did not use writing, they were extremely well informed about geometry. For instance, he describes stone-­carved spheres with regular mathemati-­ cal symmetries, found in Scotland, that predate Plato’s writings on geometric figures by more than a thousand years. It is wonderful to read a book that seeks to understand the megalithic mind on its own terms, rather than reducing everything to our own limited world-­view.

Far more than just another book about stone circles, this book will give you a vision of the wisdom that inspired the building of these enigmatic structures.

240pp, 206mm x 236mm, softback, 2007, RRP £20.00 Code: 220328 Cygnus Price: £5.99

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GAWAIN & THE GRAIL QUEST Jeffrey John Dixon Grail and Arthurian legends continue to fascinate readers today as much as they did when they first appeared in the twelfth century. Why do these medieval stories still resonate so powerfully in our imagination?

Could they hold a key to transforming our world, and ourselves? This unique book takes an in-­depth look at the themes of the Grail Quest, and at an enduring Grail Hero for our time: Sir Gawain, an all too human and complex figure who bridges earth and heaven and holds opposites in balance: paganism and Christianity, masculine and feminine aspects of the divine, faith and gnosis. Jeffrey Dixon argues powerfully that restoring the healing power that Gawain represents may be essential to our survival in the 21st century, as we face religious fundamental-­ ism and ecological catastrophe. This is a challenging and enlightening book for those interested in the wisdom of the past, and those looking for inspirational ways forward for our world.

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THE GRAIL TAROT John Matthews, illustrated by Giovanni Caselli

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The Grail Tarot brings together two of the most enduring and enigmatic mysteries of the Middle Ages: those of the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar. The deck re-­tells the Grail legend and relates the quest for the sacred Christian relic to our desire to understand the puzzle of our own lives. Characters drawn from over 2000 years of Grail history take their place in the Major Arcana, and the suits are represented by the four Grail Hallows: stone, sword, lance and vessel. In creating this tarot, John Matthews has captured the essence of the Grail as a universal and potent symbol for the search for truth, and enhanced it with Giovanni Caselli’s wonderfully intricate illustrations.

Use the symbolism and stories, described in detail in the guidebook, to connect with your own spiritual quest.

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CROSSING INTO MEDICINE COUNTRY David Carson With its humour, perception and honesty, this book is a joy to read as a travelogue of a spiritual journey and discoveries along the way. David Carson steps into the ancient lands of America, and reveals the sacred knowledge of Native American traditional healing practices. He tells the story of his initiation Limited stock available. Order as a ceremonial healer with the Choctaw medicine your copy soon! woman Mary Gardener. For three years he studied the lore of power plants and medicine animals, how to manipulate the layers of energy surrounding human beings, and how to use sacred tobacco in ritual, curing and divination.

Through Mary’s teachings and his own sometimes mind-­bending experi-­ ences, he gives us a glimpse into an alternate reality, in which health and illness express the balance between man and nature, and Western notions of physics do not operate. As fluently written as a novel, a mature version of the cult classic by Castaneda, this is a must-­buy for those interested in the Native American shamanic spiritual medicine tradition.

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Anthony Peake

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n the afternoon of Sunday 21 November 2010, I was sitting in my study, having just finished tying my shoelaces, and was preparing to go outside when I heard a scream.

It was my wife, Penny, who was upstairs.

I just had time to think: ‘Oh, bloody hell, another spider crisis!’ (Penny hates spiders and is prone to a spontaneous scream if she sees one.)

The penny drops But this scream sounded different. I got up from my chair and went to the foot of the stairs. I have just measured this distance and it is about four metres. As I arrived, I saw Penny, literally in mid-air, falling down the stairs. I positioned my body to catch her in my arms. I even had time to angle her body so that her head did not smash against the door frame. She had fallen about two metres, at speed, head first. Had I not been in that exact position I have no doubt she would have hit the wall at the bottom of the stairs and broken her neck or cracked her skull. We are both sure she would have been killed.

We were both in a state of shock and Penny was clearly quite traumatized by it all. After we calmed down (I have never experienced such a rush of adrenaline) we looked at each other and realized that what had just happened was impossible. Let’s break it down: Penny trips on the stairs and launches into space. As she does so she screams. I am in the study four metres away when I hear her scream as she starts to fall. My brain processes the sound waves that travelled from Penny to my ears. These are then converted into electrical impulses that are presented to my conscious awareness.

I have ‘time’ to think that this is probably Penny encountering a spider in the upstairs bathroom. The sound of her voice tells me that this is not the case. I get up and go to the foot of the stairs. I recall not being in a great hurry as my intention was to call up the stairs and ask if she was okay.

I get to the foot of the stairs to see Penny in mid-air, flying down the staircase. I have time to evaluate the trajectory of her fall and catch her in such a way that her head does not hit the protruding door frame to my right. I also position my body so that

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The Mystery of Time Penny’s momentum does not knock me over and push me backwards into the wall (thus injuring both of us).

A complete impossibility I was so intrigued by this that I took my video camera and I timed how long it would take for me to react to a sound from a sitting position in my study and get to the foot of the stairs. The video runs for four seconds. In my opinion there was no possible way that I could have crossed the distance any quicker. This suggests BOOK FOR GIVING: MULTI-­BUY OFFER

THE LABYRINTH OF TIME Anthony Peake In The Labyrinth of Time Anthony Peake explores the relationship between consciousness and reality and in the process puts forward an amazing hypothesis that can explain many enigmatic phenomena, including déjà vu, precognition, near-­death experience and altered states. Central to Peake’s hypothesis is a new understanding of the nature of time and a radical updating of the theories of two of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers, Peter Ouspensky and J W Dunne. Peake then looks at the concepts of time and how they have shaped our thinking as individuals through the prism of science, philosophy and literature. Featuring a cutting-­edge account of modern time theory, covering ‘time-­slips’, precognitive dreams and the elasticity of time during moments of extreme stress, near-­death experience and certain stages of hypnotic trance. The Labyrinth of Time is as compel-­ ling and persuasive as Peake’s groundbreak-­ ing Is There Life After Death? [200921, £4.20] and The Daemon [201009, £4.20].

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that either Penny was ‘in flight’ for nearly four seconds or something very strange took place with regard to time on that potentially fateful afternoon. In some yet-unexplained way I was able to expand time or shrink space, or possibly even both. The distance between my chair in the study and the foot of the stairs cannot be traversed faster than four seconds and yet I was at the foot of the stairs watching Penny in mid-air. In other words, at the point when she had just started to fall, my mind had managed, in some amazing way,

to do the impossible. It had affected the flow of time itself.

What took place that afternoon? Clearly, I seemed to enter some form of altered state of consciousness in which I was able to warp time or space, or both. To say that this was a subjective experience is simply incorrect. I managed to cross a distance in a time scale that was simply impossible.

Is this evidence that time perception is far from fully understood by modern science?

The adventure of discovery It is clear that there are many different times. There is, as we know all too well, ‘clock time’. But is this really time?

I have often experienced that sensation of ‘nowness’ – an immediate feeling that time is an illusion and that in reality there is no time, just a permanent ‘now’. For me, these incidents happen not only if I see something of great beauty, like the sun setting over the sea at Santorini, but also when I receive bad news or when I have an accident. During times of physical pain, time seems to lose all meaning.

So what exactly is time and how can we really understand its true nature? The Labyrinth of Time is my attempt to bring together possible answers to this question.

I review the philosophy, the physics and the neurology of temporal flow and then I turn to the subjective experiences of time. I discuss evidence that under certain circumstances people can precognize things yet to happen, visit the past, journey into the future, slow time down and even speed it up. I visit the furthest reaches of human understanding and discuss how such ideas have stimulated some of the greatest writers, poets and film-makers. By the end of the journey, we should know a great deal more about time. Whether we will be any closer to understanding what it is may be open to debate. However, if you enjoy the adventure half as much as I have then we will have at least not wasted too much of that most precious of commodities – time itself.

From The Labyrinth of Time, © 2012

by Anthony Peake, published by Arcturus.

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AUDIO TREATS ABUNDANCE FROM SOURCE CD Jerome O’Connell Composer and healer Jerome O’Connell has worked closely with his spirit guide, Chung Fu, to create Abundance From Source, a guided visualisation and chakra opening exercise to help you discover and activate the Source of abundance within.

As you follow Jerome’s soothing voice and absorb the carefully interspersed background sounds of nature and the elements, including a crackling fire, bird and whale song, you will go deeper into relaxation, slowing your breathing and allowing your spiritual awareness to come forward. The sounds will assist you to gain access to your higher self in order to activate potentials that already lie within you. Regular practice of this visualisation will help you to strengthen your heart and re-­programme your conscious and subconscious mind with positive affirmations within your daily life, enabling you to align yourself to the Divine Source of all Abundance. The CD also includes a bonus track, Great Mother To Us All, which is an invocation to the Divine Mother, the Goddess who has many thousands of names and whose presence is to be celebrated all around the world.It is a sung prayer and a blessing in the name of the Divine Feminine.

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CROSSING THE WATER CD Gary Plumley & Tony Young With the sensual warmth of Gary Plumley’s sax and flute playing perfectly balanced by Tony Young’s meditative and uplifting piano and synthesizer, Crossing the Water is the perfect accompaniment to meditation, yoga, healing work or just chilling out. The ten orig-­ inal compositions on this CD are written to take you through the day, from before dawn through to the evening. A steady rhythm like a heartbeat, together with the soaring notes of the sax welcome in the rising sun, filling you with a reassuring sense of the majestic power of nature. As you listen to the following tracks, several of them inspired by Indian Ragas, your sense of peacefulness and positivity deepens until, by the time you get to the final track, evocatively entitled The Moon and the Yew Tree, you feel firmly centred in your soul and ready for anything!

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CELTIC SPIRIT MEDITATIONS CD Mara Freeman This beautiful CD of six guided medita-­ tions will, says Mara Freeman, bring the ancient wisdom of the Celts into your life to enrich both your inner and outer world.

The visualizations – set to the exquisite music of harp, flute, keyboards, zither and other traditional instruments – will take you into the Celtic Dreamtime, a world-­between-­the-­worlds where you can explore the inner landscape of the Celtic spirits. Here you will meet the Shining Ones: Celtic gods and goddesses including Brigit of the Flame and Morgen of Avalon, plus other guides and ancestors from whom you will receive guidance and support for the journey of your soul.

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HOW TO GROW PERENNIAL VEGETABLES Martin Crawford

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THE HEDGEROW HANDBOOK Adele Nozedar This gorgeously presented treasure is the ideal backpack companion for country walks and hedgerow foraging. More than a foraging book, it is an inspiration for a new experience of our countryside and a trigger for memories of summers filled with hot sunny days;; of the time you got drenched in a sudden rain shower on the way home, which made those blackberry muffins even more enjoyable. In The Hedgerow Handbook Adele Nozedar reintroduces us to natural ingredients growing wild in hedgerows that our grandmothers used: from angelica, ash and bird cherry or borage, to pineapple weed, plantain, wild garlic and wimberries. Exquisite watercolour paintings by Lizzie Harper help identify each plant or flower, along with its folklore, culinary and medicinal uses. Not your run of the mill hedgerow book, you won’t find nettle soup! Adele gives her recipes a fresh modern twist.

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CROCHETED FLOWERS Jan Ollis A joy to make and easy too, you can add a unique finishing touch to your clothes, accessories and special items around the home using these pretty and stylish cro-­ cheted flowers. Jan Ollis provides twenty different flower designs, each one accom-­ panied by an alternative in a different col-­ our scheme. Full crochet instructions are given for each flower, together with lists of the materials and equipment needed. Each design is simply photographed so that crocheters can see clearly what they are aiming at, and you are also shown a sumptuous styled photograph, revealing the beautiful possibilities of the finished pieces, including brooches and embellishments on hats, bags, sweaters, place mats, cushions, scarves and even shoes.

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Chat Page

Letters and poems from Cygnus members

Star Letter: AN ETERNAL LOVING EMBRACE Dear Friends Thirteen pages of articles. So packed with a wealth of ideas. Each issue of Cygnus is a treat; one – March 2012 – particularly.

Three book reviews moved me especially. It is a good many years ago that I discovered Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich [220318]. It contains the most beautiful statements on divine Love I have ever come across.

I made a four page summary for myself that I still read regularly, ten years later.

Barbara Wilder’s Money is Love [200706] contains one of the key messages for our time: that each progress we make for ourselves, we make for the whole of humanity, because on the level of consciousness, we are all linked.

Energy Eternal We are spirit Flash of stars Flesh of earth Compressed light In woven form We straddle worlds Bridges of being As spirals we dance Sparks of one flame Through many guises Energy eternal Worlds without end

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Lost but found – Love I was in bondage till I found love The saw that broke the chains of my prison Real and imagined I was poor till I found love The key that opened the treasure box of life Peace, calm and tranquillity I was bitter till I found love The spice that sweetened my everyday living Reconnecting me with all God’s beautiful creations

Janet Baxter

Caro Tanner

Dear Friends Consider this: a mighty fiery manifestation, 1000 times Earth in size and over 90 million miles distant, responds to the thoughts in prayer of one tiny ‘scrap’ of humanity...

Our Healing Solar Legacy of Creation Helios... Golden Lord of the spiritual Sun of many names Through whom Divine cosmic love flows ceaselessly Help me, please, small as I am To be always a focus For love and beauty, joy and peace.

Visualising quietly, hand to heart The Golden Love-rays Radiant messengers of the eternal cosmic love, and sacred source of all human spiritual inspiration Course the star-spangled darkness of the

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But the big revelation for me was the book by Martinus, whom I had never heard of, Mankind and the World Picture.

Thank you to Mikael Nordfors for presenting it and The Third Testament [220311] to Cygnus readers. The idea of a perfect pattern behind everything is, especially in our troubled contemporary world, so reassuring...

‘Every catastrophe, everything you have experienced in this and other lifetimes has been nothing but an eternal loving embrace between you and God.’ His notion of evil as ‘unpleasant good’ really is food for thought. Thank you to the whole Cygnus team for your commitment to a world that works for ALL – which starts with everyone having access to the wealth of exciting ideas you share so freely.

With such love, Pierre Pradervand www.vivreautrment.ch

timeless galactic heavens, giving all Earthlife through our glorious, fiery Sun And, as every day dawns, lovingly unfailing, seek re-entry to hearts; permeating and restoring bodies, souls and spirits, amidst birds dawn chorusing, brightened flowers and new-green grass In perfect Lovelight of joy and of timeless peace, with the beauty of the divine Truth placed in Nature...

Sacred gifts to be gratefully shared with reverence, in the wonder of Christ’s Light Thank you. Amen Eric P Gladwin Divine Guidance My Heavenly Hosts guide me in every way, to follow in God’s footsteps.

The promise of Divine Protection... To be happy, be good, have faith, face each day with a loving heart.

For God’s love is here to stay forever, within our hearts.

Amen.

Lily Swanson

I was ignorant till I found love The real meaning of love that I had never known Knowledge is power, as the saying goes But in love this power so greatly surges Succour to win in this race of life Obi Dominic I Have Been Heard Just listening to another man without judgement unconditionally not trying to offer a solution walking in his shoes feeling his pain understanding from his point of view honours his life.

As my mentor has said, ‘For those who are suffering, just being heard out can make a huge difference.

Having someone warmly listen to what one has to say is in itself encouragement to go on living.’

Every man wants to be listened to Let today be a day like no other When each one of us can say, ‘I have been heard.’

Paul Samuels

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EVENTS, COURSES & WORKSHOPS continued CONNECT TO YOUR VOICE - use your voice to self-heal, express, transform emotions with Narayani, Kirtan singer and voicework facilitator. Friday evening 1 - Sunday 3 June. Workshop, accommodation, vegetarian meals. £180. Claridge House, Surrey. RH7 6QH. 0845 345 7281 www.claridgehousequaker.org.uk Bowen Therapy/NST Short Courses. Introductory (£60) or Intensive (£250) Beginners and non-bodyworkers learn with confidence. Magical Greece, SunSea-Swim, June 15-22, or Malvern and UK quarterly. International teacher.

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Tel: 01460 53699 Visit www.unicorncentre.com ANAM CARA RETREAT CENTRE, Scottish Highlands, Inverness. Residential workshops and retreats in Shamanism, Buddhism, Meditation, Soul Quest, Permaculture, Working Retreats, Yoga Training and Healing Arts. To request a brochure, tel. 01463 711702 email: welcome@anamcara.org visit: www.anamcara.org LEMURIAN CRYSTAL ATTUNEMENTS & EGYPTIAN HEALING Course weekends in Buckinghamshire. Certificated including comprehensive manual.

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