Symbolic Life & the Spiritual Path
Modern society has lost the power of symbolic life, though we have not escaped our need of it. A symbol is a term, a name, or an image...
Working with our Dreams in the Spiritual Life Part I
In the Christian tradition, many people are becoming more interested again in working with their dreams, recognising some intuitive value...
Spiritual Life & Our Dreams
'Spiritual directors and gurus have always been listeners, but the language to which they listen is the 'forgotten language' of myths and...
Telling our Stories...
I was recently at a wonderful workshop for spiritual directors run by Pádraig Ó Tuama leader of the Corrymeela Community, Northern...
Soul, Spirituality & Psychology
Soul is the most common translation of the Hebrew word nephesh and the Greek word psyche. The biblical meanings of these concepts are...
Christian Meditation
In its broadest terms, we can think of Christian meditation as a way of calming our minds and hearts to offer the least resistance to the...
Healing Spiritual Abuse & Church Hurt
Since my first article on spiritual abuse, I have been surprised and saddened by just how many people have contacted me who have...
Working with our Shadow
In my earlier article on The Spiritual Life and our Shadow, I describe the Jungian under-standing of how we learn, from early childhood,...
Spirituality & Religion
In today's Western world, there can be a marked separation between spirituality and religion. Public opinion now privileges...
How to find a Spiritual Director
Finding a Spiritual Director has not always been that easy in the UK. As I discuss in my article Contemporary Trends in Spiritual...
