by Anne Skyvington | Aug 20, 2023 | Writing Spirit
Several years ago, a young Englishwoman donned a backpack, set out for Australia and rented premises in Bondi; she’d brought the New Kadampa Tradition to Sydney from the United Kingdom. The beautiful Manjushri Temple is in the Conishead Priory near the Lakes...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 1, 2023 | Writing Spirit
But not in the way I expected… I turned thirty and wanted to change. Engaging a therapist who utilized a post-Freudian type of psychoanalysis, seemed to me to ensure a cure for low self-esteem and depression. True, this pragmatic change did occur, over a decade or so,...
by Anne Skyvington | Apr 27, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
The reason people choose atheism rather than belief or agnosticism, may simply be that professed atheists have not experienced, at least in this lifetime, the “numen” (adj. “numinous”). See meaning below. Numinous ( /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/) is a concept derived from the Latin...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 19, 2022 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
Appropriating the American way while writing for Medium 1. Keep physically fit and eat well Fitness: There are so many ways one can manage to do this these days: go to the gym; find a lifestyle clinic; go bush walking; swim every day; jog; walk; go up and down stairs...
by Anne Skyvington | Jan 13, 2020 | Ecology, Writing Spirit
The Myth Linked to the Earth Today We earthlings are being jolted by human damage to our natural home. Climate Change is causing huge shock waves to register throughout the globe. Fierce fires have broken out this summer here, and recently in California and even in...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 14, 2018 | Writing Spirit
A Myth is a story of the gods, a religious account of the beginning of the world, the creation, fundamental events, or exemplary deeds of the gods. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung saw the ancient gods as archetypes of human behaviour, and mythology as the...
