Reading a book by Joe Dispenza – Evolve Your Brain a fascinating study of how the physiology of the brain is a crucial element of the change process which makes sense of the saying, change your mind. He explains that change is actually quite challenging because many of our ways of thinking and behaviour are [...]

My paraphrase of John 15.1-11 I am the authentic source of your existence and all that is creative and abundant in your life flows from me. Sometimes it will be necessary for you to experience loss, the loss of those things that are not creative or fruitful in your life, when this is so, then [...]

Reading Jung’s autobiographical book Memories. Dreams, Reflections I am nudged along a road I have travelled too infrequently. His understanding of the power of symbol, sign, myth and meaning stir me into a fever of thinking back into my own mythology. Memories are made and hard wired into the brain along with sensory and emotional [...]

Reading a book recommended a while ago by a friend – The Contemplative Pastor by Eugene H Peterson I was interested in this question and answer; You’ve written that everyone is born to live creatively, but many of us fail to do so. Why is that? Largely because we are lazy. Creativity is difficult. When [...]

Thinking about mysticism and the experience of transformation. Often people strive for the big experience to transform them and by doing so they miss out on the ordinary moments infused with mystery. I have always believed that out-of-the-ordinary experiences come out of the ordinary – the simple mundane things of life looked at from a [...]

From the Tao Te Ching this morning; The net of heaven catches all; its mesh is coarse, but nothing slips through the older I get the more I appreciate how little I know and the more I appreciate how little I know the more excited I am at the thought of learning new things about [...]

I seek not to rest my soul in you but to know you resting in my soul and in so knowing be at rest HJH

Whilst looking through some images on my MacBook as part of a tidy up I came across this detail from Michel Angelo’s Creation of Adam. As I studied the incredible detail I realised something which I am sure is entirely intentional. The figure of God is straining to reach out to Adam who in contrast [...]

Listening to Peter Gabriel in the bath – I’m in the bath not Gabriel – a line from That Voice Again (album So) sets me pondering – the line is, I’m hearing right and wrong so clearly There must be more than this It’s only in uncertainty That we’re naked and alive I think the [...]

I love the arrival of a parcel in the post. Even more so when the parcel is a book. The book arriving in the post today is The Cry For Myth by Rollo May (1909 – 1994). One of my favourite books of his is The Courage To Create – he is an existentialist psychologist [...]