Category Archives: Articles by me

Caught in the Headlights – Boarding School Wounds

Posted on February 7, 2016 by

I feel the piercing eyes of the school master boring into me, transfixing me, demanding an answer. Not just any answer I might blurt out from fear, but the right answer, the one and only answer that will allow me … Continue reading →

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The Lost Boy

Posted on November 27, 2015 by

A Family Constellation experience Dec 2015 I see him face me, small, innocent, in a man’s body. He is asking for nothing and yet needing everything; afraid to stand before the father he never knew and yet drawn like a … Continue reading →

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Invoking The Beloved

Posted on September 11, 2015 by

I sit cross-legged in deep reverence I feel a slight loosening of the bands that tie me to my ego’s trivial reality, as my heart begins to open to you, my beloved. Waves of emotion begin to flow through me. … Continue reading →

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Surviving Boarding School – part 2

Posted on July 20, 2015 by

School cricket team. I am 4th from the left at the back, age 10 or 11. I was eight when I arrived at Boarding School (see my article describing this, dated March 2015). At some point in those early days, … Continue reading →

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Migraine Free

Posted on May 31, 2015 by

I am celebrating: Almost 5 months without a migraine after 20 years of being at the mercy of them, sometimes twice a week, and often having to sleep them off for 24 hours each time. So what has been the … Continue reading →

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The Great Bell Chant

Posted on May 26, 2015 by

I was first given this beautiful chant and prayer by Thich Nhat Hanh while involved with a local group in the UK, part of the Community of Interbeing. Before that I was connected to an international Tibetan Buddhist organisation founded … Continue reading →

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Magic at Milking Time

Posted on May 22, 2015 by

I look back through the six decades of my life to recall a memory, clear and resonant. A little boy moving among my father’s cows as they assembled in the concrete yard of our small farm waiting to be milked. … Continue reading →

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Marriage

Posted on April 12, 2015 by

My partner and I have bought rings. We are not marrying each other, we are marrying ourselves! The more we awaken to ourselves, The more our relationship deepens, This is our priority now, to commit to ourselves first. We declared … Continue reading →

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The Kali of the forest

Posted on March 23, 2015 by

Last Sunday I did a day of meditation and reflection on the significance of the eclipse and other powerful influences that are affecting us right now. In a guided meditation I looked into a mirror and saw a wild boar. … Continue reading →

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Surviving Boarding School – New Boy.

Posted on March 15, 2015 by

The master led us up the grand staircase and along a dim corridor with bare and squeaky floorboards; past the dorms of the older boys, who were still chatting noisily downstairs on that first night. We found ourselves in an … Continue reading →

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