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Our Sacred Memories
The Power of our Soul’s Experiences

Each one of us may have a sacred memory kept in our hearts, something we will always treasure. These are deeply personal and unique to us: maybe a special moment in time, someone we loved, a spiritual awakening. Yet we also hold memories collectively, down through the ages: either as humanity as a whole or as groups of souls who share experiences of other worlds and times. Exploring these memories, many of which may lie beyond our everyday human consciousness, brings us to a deeper awareness of our rich spiritual history. We start where religious tradition says humanity started, in the Garden of Eden.

A Spirituality of Homelessness
Part 2: Discovery

After living at the homeless hostel for a while, I started looking for somewhere that might nurture me spiritually. One day I came across a centre run by a Christian minister that offered rented accommodation. From its description it seemed very spiritually open. I was hopeful.

A Spirituality of Homelessness
Part 1: Into An Unknown...

I was 49 when I became homeless. I had been a college lecturer, I had a home, an income, everything you would expect from a middle-class professional. And then it all fell apart.

Book of the Month: Finding Jesus Ourselves
Queer Spirituality: A Story of Spirit of the Rainbow

Spirit of the Rainbow has its origins in an LGBTQ spiritual group, seeking to create a space for itself in a world whose religions were largely hostile to us.

Oneness with Nature
A Personal Experience

We start with a fundamental truth that we can too easily forget: our bodies come from particles of animal and plant life that once belonged to other plants or animals and so on backwards through time to the dawn of life on earth. Years from now bits of who we are today will form part of an infinite variety of living things. In essence the same material is simply being recycled through nature in different ways over time. So that on the most basic physical level we are one with our planet.

A Pilgrimage to St James of Compostela
A Personal Story of the Challenge of Trust

As one of the key principles of Spirit of the Rainbow, trust in the process of our spiritual evolution acts as useful reminder for those who search for spiritual insight. Understanding this principle is one thing, however. Putting it into practice is another. Sometimes it is hard to place our faith in something that is not immediately evident. During challenging times we may even resist the notion of trust altogether. This is because the path ahead is obscured and we doubt we are moving in the right direction. Yet, as I am constantly learning, if we can find the grace to open ourselves even a little to the idea, we realise that support for our spiritual quest is right there.

Book of the Month: Welcome to Planet Earth
Freeing Our Soul

Our soul experiences an almost limitless freedom. Only part of it inhabits our being, it is said. Much of it exists in higher realms where it is free to expand and explore. It accepts restrictions only to experience life in the denser regions on this planet. So when we talk of freeing our soul, it’s really about our task, which is to give it as much space as we can for it to work through us and to fulfil its mission here on earth. We, with all our emotional baggage, need to clean up as far as we can and let it shine through.

Healing Ourselves, Healing the World

In last month’s article, we explored why we have come to live in a world where there is enough for everybody but not everybody has enough. Key to this is understanding the need to see our world through the eyes of humanity, all humanity, rather than the narrow focus of one country, religion or community. Global problems need global solutions. So we need to work towards a world where we provide the essentials of life to all, dealing with challenges like climate change, as one people

When being in control becomes counterproductive
Case Study: Napoleon (from Education for Humanity)

At Education for Humanity, we're on a mission to delve deeper into history – not just the highlights but the character traits that shape historical figures. We recognise that these traits can often be contradictory. By examining historical figures through this lens, we can gain a more nuanced and holistic understanding of our human past.

Book of the Month: Riverlution
Focus on the power of going with the flow

Our lives have a flow that we can choose to follow. Rather than passively drifting through life, we can learn how to go with the universal flow with awareness and creativity. We can see this flow, this river, in many ways as our natural evolution.

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