Literature

Valerie Georgeson was a very successful writer and actress, always interested in religion and spirituality. She was on the original writing team of EastEnders and appeared in Coronation Street and other drama series before writing adult novels (The Shadow of the Elephant quartet) and well-loved childrens' TV (Jonny Briggs, Simon & the Witch, Animals of Farthing Wood). But her spiritual journey was cut short after she unwittingly fell under the influence of a group whose...

I suppose the God Squad started it when they came calling at university and the atheist me saying that it wasn’t about being ‘persuaded’ or ‘reasoned with’, it was simply that they saw one side of the coin and I saw the other… until the coin was tossed and flipped and there was no point in arguing. Yet my curiosity was awakened and it kept me open and enquiring. In my childhood, Christianity had seemed...

Writing Reiki’s Highest Potential took me on a journey which guided me to explore and establish my foundation with my spiritual beliefs. It took me on a journey where I visited my past and saw my inspirations, my trauma, and the evolution into the woman I am now. The process of remembering and writing gave me an insight, a different perspective on me and my spiritual growth through the five decades I’ve been here in...

The plants wanted me to write this book. It is becoming recognised that plants are so much more than green living structures that provide oxygen, food and chemicals for future medicines. They are beings of power with a history of their own, with folklore and stories to tell. They communicate with one another and with us, if we can hear them, and they have friends that they like to live close to. I have often...

Like most people, my creative journey began as a child. Drawing, painting, and playing on a mini keyboard, I would follow my creative bliss. But when I entered my pre-teens, my creative impulses got snuffed out by a belief that what I was creating was stupid, so I stopped all forms of creative expression. Several decades later, and with a devastating personal loss, I engaged with my creativity again. It started with a friend's suggestion...

“Your inner vibration is as intimate and personal to you as your breath. You could say this vibration is you, through which you are connected to a universe as diverse and universal as the gases you breathe and the space beyond them.  Through this breath you express the story of that universe.” So says Anna Parkinson, a healer as well as a writer, and this inner vibration, in herself and anyone or anything she encounters,...

I guess I’m very lucky in that I class my work as a Regression Therapist as part of my spiritual path, which means that helping my clients to improve their lives and heal from an array of issues that stop them from living life freely is my way of aiming to make a difference in the world. This I view as a spiritual process, in that serving others acknowledges the universal truth that everything is...

For aspiring writer of prose, poetry, philosophy and film, Gordon Collins has sought to discover some inner strength from the raw materials of life’s difficulties. He has always perceived the world from a deep and sensitive place within him and even as a child was often overwhelmed with such seeing to the point of spiritual and emotional shutdown. His first book, ‘Sons of Thunder’(2012) is a gritty novel, set in Glasgow and inspired from his...

Angelina Der Arakelian is an author who believes in the magical power of words. More specifically, she sees potential in the written medium to make readers imagine a world that is very far from, yet comprises similar traits to the one we live in. By doing this, she hopes to challenge the reality we’re presented with and allow us to dig the purpose behind some of history’s most prevalent events a bit deeper. In early...

A young woman wrote a novel that was accepted by a book publisher. Then she heard no more from them, her enquiries ignored. By chance, one day she then found her own work on sale in a shop under another author’s name – so she took the company to court. That case took two years, but she won. By then, having learned so much about the publishing business, she set up her own company with...

Poltergeists are often regarded as being mischievous and sometimes malevolent spirits. These may be of those who have departed the earthly form, or those such as 'elementals' who never had that 'earthly' form to begin with. In either case perhaps something which is best avoided. But what if that we regard as poltergeist phenomena is simply an aspect of our own frustrated spirituality? The minds hidden powers rebelling against the stresses and dullness of everyday...