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Jane Eyre – nineteenth century Aspie woman
Yesterday, I was at the Blackeyed Theatre stage production of Jane Eyre and, from the front balcony seat looking down onto the stage, I saw something so new yet just so obvious about this well-known character that I had missed … Continue reading →
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Tagged asperger's friendships, asperger's traits in literature, Aspergers, autism, being different, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, late-diagnosed Asperger's, masking behaviours, nineteenth centiry asperger's women, owning your differences, pretending to be normal, role models, self-understanding through literature, was Jane Eyre autistic?, why people dislike people with Asperger's
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A fairy tale for our times…and, of course, a new ending
We have been told an old old (old) story so many times before that, even when a new version comes along, we think its still the same story…or do we? And is it? Not when seen through new fifth-dimensional “eyes”. Join me in looking at one of the most popular stories of the moment through these very eyes… Continue reading →
Posted in Art metaphor, Art purpose, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Films, Health & wellbeing, In the news, Life journey, Menu, metaphor, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged A Star is Born, androgyny, balance, Bradley Cooper, divine feminine, divine masculine, Elen of the Ways, fifth dimension, goddess for our times, healing, healing the broken masculine, hidden message of movies, Jack and Ally, Lady Gaga, Maximus and Elen, modern relevance of fairytales, new paradigm, Nine Waves of Creation, self-belief, the evolved human, the experience of 5D in life, wholeness, write a new ending
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Seeing the light of day
When its time for something to see th elight of day, there is literally no stopping it. Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Divine feminine, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Writing
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Tagged barn owl, being seen, coming out, crystalising, divine feminine, goddesses, momentum, owl in daytime, owls, Personal Development, power of words, publishing tools, revelations, self-expression, self-publishing, wisdom, writing
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How we encourage empathy…and not just in women
In a world full of people that are, we are told, less empathic than ever, how do we encourage more empathy? Do women naturally have more empathy than men, as one study suggests, or do they develop this by reading more fiction, something which men are far less inclined to do? If so, how do we plug this gap in our boy’s emotional intelligence? An article (linked) that I read this week set me off on this line of thought and these are some additional thoughts I have to contribute… Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Entertainment, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Literature, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged alternative lifestyles, caring about other people, emotional intelligence, Empathy, heforshe, lifetsyle vloggers, respecting different cultures, teaching kids empathy, who reads fiction anymore, women read more than men, yawning
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Memories from the stones
Sometimes its as though the stones of a place speak to us; sometimes its a feeling of a place that takes us back in time…reminding us of something important, like a memo to ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Holiday destinations, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged ancient civilizations, DH Lawrence, etruscans, Italy, Life Bistro, matriarchy, memories, messages across time, out of sync with the times, past lives, Travel, vegan, Volterra
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Good years without end
I’d watched this film over and over again for many years; and it was only when I recognised another story layered into it that I got its deeper message. Reappraising A Good Year; deeper than it looks. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Entertainment, Films, Holiday destinations, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged A Good Year, divine feminine, divine masculine, Elen of the Ways, Garden of Eden, Gladiator, golden energy, healing the wounded masculine, Magnus Maximus, radical life change, Ridley Scott, Russel Crowe, The Dream of Macsen, transforming your life, true sovereignty
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To walk visible…at last
Was your fierce teenage femininity woken up and crystallised by Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”? Mine certainly was. I know I’ve thought of re-reading “Wuthering Heights” many times over the years – what stopped me, caused hesitation? Did I fear disappointment with what engaged me so as a girl like when you try to visit the most magical books of childhood and they’re just not the same, am I more squeamish of the dark than I used to be, or was it the thought of comparison…with where I am now…that I most dreaded? For, where is my inner Cathy, where are my wild moors; have I sold my life out to the Lintons, made nice and put wild plaything away? Or am I still promising them to myself “tomorrow”? Continue reading →
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Tagged Brontës, Cathy, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, freedom, Heathcliffe, holding onto who we really are, impact of a novel, Jane Eyre, novels versus television, rereading classics, sacred feminine, the pitfall of TV adaptations, To Walk Invisible, visibility, wildness, Wuthering Heights
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Curiosity killed the joy
What happens when we start to consider that there can be many truths, all at the same time. After all, life is never a single, simple thread; everything we release into it becomes woven into a dense tapestry of other people and events and yet only we each get to choose which is our still-relatable thread to follow. No one else can come along and unpick or reclaim that thread as more-rightfully theirs, or even snip it out as though it never existed or was “wrong”, which is how we mess-up when we attempt to post-mortem anything that happened “in the past”. As we pull away at “what was”, there is always the risk that unpicking one part of the tapestry to make ourselves feel better will cause other things to fall apart for others…perhaps necessarily so in cases where something continues to be harmfully distorted to this day, but quite unnecessary in others, so this need to be a very conscious and considered choice… Continue reading →
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Tagged allowing many truths, allowing people to be flawed, bad news overload, Christopher Robin, consciously choosing what to watch or read, how much do we need to know?, is all information good for us?, leave the past alone, moving on, should we unpick the past?, stop raking over the past, too much information, what is true history?, why are we addicted to mud raking?, Winnie the Pooh
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1000 stories, a single shared ending
What does Sheherazade have to tell us about where we are now, at the end of “1001 nights” of human history? Are we ready to face a new dawn together or do we throw ourselves back into a perpetual re-run of all those same old stories with their oh-so predictable endings? When this particular story came up for me just so powerfully again, having been such a long-running companion throughout my life, I found myself sitting up and taking note of what it had to tell me about how we are holding a whole new kind of an ending in the palm of our unified hands. Both the masculine and feminine aspects have to be prepared to face up to the fact there are no new endings to the stories they have both already heard; they can only move on by overcoming each of their fears (both equally vaid…yet together, they neutralise) creating a brand new story, together. Continue reading →
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Tagged allegory, arabian nights, end of conflict, evolution, heal the world, human race, masculine and feminine, Rimsky- Korsakov, save the world, Scheherazade, snow white, stories of humanity, unity consciousness, wanting the same things, wholeness, wisdom in ancient stories, yin and yang
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Being the rainbow bridge
When we reach out our arms and embrace the broken aspect of the masculine, we bring it home to ourselves and the feminine values that are so needed by this world in order for us to move on together, intermingled as the best of both masculine and feminine qualities, as one unit. When we do this, we allow the masculine to dare to come home to the ever present embrace of the feminine, not to build up its walls of resistance even stronger against it. It is sad, yes, that so often the masculine has to be broken before it will come home in this way; but let it be broken only because of its own doings, not because the feminine contributed to that (which is not what the feminine is about anyway). As such, we all get to be the rainbow rather than chasing down its mythical ending (something I pondered just a few days ago as I was travelling home along a road arced by a rainbow, wondering which end the pot of gold was meant to be at; surely when we realise it is to be found at both ends, the whole of its bridge, joining one place to another, becomes that long sought-after gold). When we are the rainbow ourselves, rather than seeking it externally, we incorporate the best of both worlds…as ourselves; which makes it less of a destination than a state we get to be in, all of the time.
Rediscovering the much-needed rainbow bridge that I describe as it is so beautifully conveyed in a hundred year old “parable” of our times: E. M Forster’s “Howard’s End”. Continue reading →
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, changing the paradigm, eight wave, EM Forster, forgiveness, global mind, healing the masculine, healing the world, Howard's End, left and right hemispheres, Merchant Ivory, Nine Waves of Creation, rainbow bridge, return of sacred feminine, unity consciousness
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