By Steve Clayton Have you ever found yourself correcting someone when they are talking about enlightenment or, more specifically, their own journey towards enlightenment? Do the words you speak come across as being in quotation marks, or do you use quotation marks every time you write something? Do you find yourself wondering if you just […]
By Kim Hutchinson The theme this past month, both at work and in my private life, has been ego issues. In addition to an unexpected and decidedly unpleasant encounter with my shadow side, I’ve been drawn into an assortment of ego dramas with clients, friends and family. The ego, it would seem, is out of […]
By Kim Hutchinson With all the recent hype around Judgement Day and the Rapture, I got to thinking about the origins of the concept of Hell. I’m not going to address here the puzzling question of how an all-loving, all-knowing, omnipresent God could allow someone to burn for eternity in the fiery bowels of a […]
By Steve Clayton “For one throb of the artery while on that old grey stone I sat. I knew that one is animate, mankind inanimate fantasy.” So wrote Yeats many decades ago. As a young man in university I took to those few lines like Donald Trump to the board room. I believed in the power […]
By Steve Clayton In the last couple of newsletters I have talked about how we derive a lot of our self -knowledge from how others see us. We can also learn a lot about ourselves by our reactions to the world around us. (i.e. How news stories affect us; social gatherings intimate or large; and […]
By Steve Clayton Well, here we are another month closer to springtime and all the promise this change of season brings. I find it amazing how quickly time is flying by, and I am reminded of a snippet of a conversation I had with my father when he was in his late eighties. I had remarked […]
By Steve Clayton Here we are in the middle of February and, although winter has yet to relinquish its hold upon us, it is comforting to know spring is roughly five weeks away. Before I launch into my diatribe I would like to take a moment to say thanks to everyone who has signed up for […]
By Steve Clayton Not too long ago I had my first experience of leaving my body and ego behind and connecting with the universe. In the midst of the beauty, freedom and unadulterated love of the experience, words were of no importance to me. I even felt it so crudely stated, ‘words suck’. For someone who […]
By Steve Clayton My second blog has been much slower in developing than I had originally expected. I could cite the usual reasons: busy work schedule, house maintenance, and my Chios studies. All seem valid enough at first glance until I found myself literally sweating over my laptop trying to compose a second blog. I […]