In 1528, a Spanish expedition was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years later only four men remained alive. They had overcome starvation, illness, and brutal conditions as they crossed the continent in search of their countrymen. One of the four, Cabeza de Vaca, later published a mesmerising account of what occurred. The Ecstasy of Cabeza de Vaca is Keith Hill's masterful verse retelling of Cabeza de Vaca's story. Naked and enslaved, de Vaca was stripped of all he possessed, then underwent an extraordinary transformation. This is a heartbreaking story of courage and faith, barbarity...
In 1528, a Spanish expedition was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight years later only four men remained alive. They had overcome starvation, ill...
"Origins have always fascinated human beings. Many wonder at their personal origins, who their forebears were, how they came to be the person that they are. Of course, underneath it, usually unperceived, is a drive by the individual's own spiritual self to make itself known to the personality it has chosen to co-associate with this time round. Because anyone's ultimate origin is not familial, tribal, social, or genetic. It is spiritual. The search for kosmic origins, the beginning of all that is, is an expression of that same drive emanating from your higher spiritual self to know where you...
"Origins have always fascinated human beings. Many wonder at their personal origins, who their forebears were, how they came to be the person that the...
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear, is a dead man. - Albert Einstein
For millennia, mystics' explorations of reality were considered a religious quest. This changed during the Victorian era, when researchers began redefining mystical experiences as psychological phenomena.
No longer strictly religious, mystical experiences came to be seen as grounded in anomalous...
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom...
Our view of the universe has changed radically since the Renaissance. We no longer think, speak, live, or see the world as our forebears did. The Protestant Reformation, the replacing of feudal social hierarchies with liberal democracy, the separation of State and Church, the industrial revolution, the advent of universal education, shifting from mythological religious explanations of the world to those offered by scientific materialism, the rise of the autonomous individual – these collectively created the modern and changed our intellectual outlook profoundly. With them, inevitably...
Our view of the universe has changed radically since the Renaissance. We no longer think, speak, live, or see the world as our forebears did. The P...
We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very successfully helped us understand physical reality, are not equipped to fathom the subtleties of deep inner experience. Each approach offers useful insights, but neither is sufficient. We urgently need new forms of spirituality appropriate to life in the twenty-first century.
Experimental Spirituality is the first in a series of five channelled books that offer an approach to spirituality designed for today's seekers. Grounding...
We live in an era when traditional religious approaches to spirituality are increasingly losing relevance. Equally, the sciences, which have very s...
Who are we? Where do we come from? How did the universe come to be? What is the structure of reality? Do we have a higher purpose? If so, what is it?
For millennia the world's religions have offered answers to these and other big questions. Today those answers are showing their age. A new approach to spirituality is needed that takes into account our current understanding of reality using contemporary concepts and language. The Matapaua Conversations presents a view of the relationship between the spiritual and physical domains that reflects current scientific...
Who are we? Where do we come from? How did the universe come to be? What is the structure of reality? Do we have a higher purpose? If so, what is i...
