Meditation and Evolution Podcast – Emergence

This week we kicked off the Becoming section of our Tuesday night Meditation+Evolution programme. The topic was Emergence. As Andrew Cohen describes, “Emergence means creating the conditions for higher potentials that never existed before to enter into time and space”. This week’s podcast centers around a discussion when a gentleman asks Patrick Bryson whether this…

Finding Spiritual Self Confidence

I started seeking for spirit in the late seventies like many people after a personal crisis (brought on by the clash between my strict Irish catholic upbringing and too many mind expanding drugs!). When I look back now, I can see that in a simple way I was looking for confidence, a deeper confidence in…

EnlightenNext meets Alternatives

Watch Kyrsten Perry’s interview with Steve Nobel from Alternatives, an organisation that hosts talks at St James’s Church in Piccadilly, London, and weekend workshops on spirituality, creativity, wellbeing and personal development. Steve speaks about his background and what led him to pursue the spiritual dimension of life. He also describes his vision for the future…

Psychological vs Philosophical Perspective

Chris Parish explores two distinct types of human development – the psychological and philosophical. He explains and elucidates the differences between these two perspectives, where we are now culturally, and how we can see the world and all of life in a dramatically different way.

Evolution, History, Culture and Me

Some thoughts and reflections on human development focusing on England/Britain particularly (since I happen to be English) and seen through an evolutionary lens. As one of the speakers at a public debate on the subject, ‘Cynicism: the British Disease?’ I unfurled the Union Jack flag during the short introduction, not because I am a rabid…