Sharifa Al-Kindi is a second-year student at Alef Trust, currently doing her Masters in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. She has opted for Transpersonal Dreaming and Contemporary Spirituality as her optional modules during her first year. Her interests revolve around experiences of non-local consciousness, such as OBEs, NDEs and Lucid Dreaming. […]
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I have recently completed the second year of my MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality through Alef Trust. For my optional modules within the first year, I chose to explore Contemporary Spirituality and Transpersonal Therapy and Counselling. In my second year, I studied Shamanistic Psychology and Transpersonal Coaching. For […]
Erika Annabelle Pratte is a PhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Northampton where she is embarking on doctoral research entitled Therapeutic Approaches Towards Near-Death Experiences. She is also a mental health clinician, writer, and publisher/editor of the Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology. Erika’s research and clinical focuses […]
This film is the best introduction to Tim’s new ideas about evolution and spirituality, including: The soul crisis Emergent Spirituality The timestream How long is now? The self-realising universe Body, soul and spirit Death is not the end Oneness and separateness The GOD question
Gaia and Natural Selection – A new perspective By Paul Kieniewicz The observation that for over 3 billion years the Earth’s average temperature has remained within a narrow range, while the sun’s temperature has increased by 20 % required an explanation. The Gaia Theory, of James Lovelock and Lynn […]
Reflections on other modalities of consciousness By Paul Kieniewicz Looking ahead to Chris Bache’s upcoming book, Diamonds from Heaven (see link to interview), I decided to read his classic, Dark night Early Dawn. This is a book about other modalities of consciousness than those we typically experience in our daily […]
Link to Video Chris is author of several books including ‘Lifecycles – a study of reincarnation in light of contemporary consciousness research’; ‘Dark Night, Early Dawn – a pioneering work in psychedelic philosophy and collective consciousness’; and ‘The Living Classroom,’ an exploration of teaching and collective fields of consciousness.’ He […]
Rarely does one major publication on the nature of consciousness include articles on all its aspects — philosophical, mystical and neurological. The four volume set listed below, Consciousness, edited by Max Velmans, is an essential reference work for the serious researcher into the nature of consciousness. As is evident in […]
John was a long-standing member of the Scientific and Medical Network who presented at our 40th anniversary annual meeting in 2013. John Rowan (31st March 1925 – 26th May 2018) was an English author, counsellor, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor, known for being one of the pioneers of humanistic psychology […]
By Paul Kieniewicz (SMN) A curious synchronicity hit me the other day. I had a lengthy discussion with my son in law about octopuses. According to a book he was recommending, octopuses have a highly specialized brain that has a totally different structure from the brains of vertebrates. This could […]