Resources
The resources people need to grow their soul resilience will vary, e.g. depending on your situation, temperament, history, learning style. Approach the resources below like an abundant buffet: wander through, nibbling, and tuck in to those that nourish you. This section shares some of the teachings and processes I have found helpful during many years of exploring resilience and the soul’s journey.
Six basic steps for soul resilience
- Evolve and use regularly some good processes to compost difficult emotions.
- Establish a spiritual framework and practices which nourish and guide you.
- Maintain a frequent spiritual connection with Nature.
- Find a human support network.
- Manage your relationships with the true world and the mainstream.
- Try to sustain a sense of higher purpose and meaning which guides you in a path of service.
For more briefing on these steps, click here.
Nourishing body and soul: do we need to reinvent the monastery?
We live in a time of impending crisis, when I hear many people urging the need for sanctuary, hospicing, and a deeper sense of community. Implicit in such words, but rarely discussed, is the huge spiritual vacuum in our relentlessly materialistic society. Role models...
The Wisdom Way of Knowing, by Cynthia Bourgeault
Practical approaches to spiritual resilience This small, readable book is one of the best guides I've found to the principles and practicalities of spiritual resilience. Whilst it's based on Wisdom teachings within the Christian tradition, Cynthia points out that "no...
How movement and chants can help us with climate distress
One of the reactions I bring to my challenges is a search for understanding, and systemic solutions. In recent years, I've reached the painful conclusion that the climate crisis is too large, complex and alarming to be understood. Systemic solutions are absolutely...
A Sufi way to discern reality
As material reality gets more uncertain and alarming, I have found that using spiritual practices to find my way forward is really helpful. I’ve been exploring Sufi teachings for over 20 years, and want to share a couple of processes which have helped me. So what do I...
Ever wonder about a life beyond this one?
Book blog: Journey of Souls by Michael Newton Perhaps covid-19 has made many of us reflect about our mortality, and wonder if this increasingly strange world is a preparation for something else. I have long believed that our soul lives long before and after a human...
Befriending your soul: starting a dialogue
There was a time around age 40 when I felt that the interest of life was thinning out: friends from early adulthood were drifting away, my kids were turning into grumpy teenagers, work challenges became samey. However, now I’m in my early seventies, I’ve seen my life...
Exploring the Soul’s Journey: Resource List
A MAIN SOURCE BOOKS Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. A detailed description, built from hypnotherapy sessions with over 300 clients reporting broadly the same experience. Describes stages in soul development,...
Testimony of Light by Helen Greaves
Is there an afterlife beyond this human one? What is it like? If we knew more about the afterlife, could that guide our human life here and now? This book offers some of the most convincing answers to these questions that I have found. There are two voices in this...
Creating a Life Together, by Diana Leafe Christian
Invaluable wisdom for community projects This book is a must for anyone wanting to set up or join any kind of residential community, such as a cohousing group or back-to-the-land settlement. The author was editor of Communities magazine in the US for many years, and...
Embracing the future – plenty we can do!
Insights from new Future Risks report It's hard to make sense of the future outlook: there are so many issues, risks and trends which could worry us, at every scale from local to global. And we have to discern real news from fake news, objective facts from...
Book blog: A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
Positive news on community responses to disasters We’re clearly in an era of mounting disasters: not just incidents like hurricanes, but longer-term systemic disasters like habitat loss and food supply failures. This is a highly perceptive and reassuring book for our...