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How Wolves Change Rivers
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix. “When we try to pick out...
James – a former life
Strange how Experience is so convincing. Once you’ve been there and done that, ‘got the T-shirt and read the book’ as they say, you have a certain authority, you know it in yourself. How can I say to someone, who experiences something outside my belief system, “oh you must...
The Only Choice – Sustainable Living
We only really have one choice. That choice is to live more sustainably. I’d be very imprudent to live outside of my budget. I’d quickly go broke and end up destitute. So how is it that we have this idea that the resources of our home, this planet, are...
Because Who Is Perfect?
You’ve never seen designs quite like this profound idea. It’s guaranteed to open your mind to beauty and gratitude.
The Secret to Learning
In 1915, aged thirty-six, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 of that year, having just completed the two-page masterpiece that would catapult him into international...
Religion is for the sake of divine union, not social order
This is so insightful. How often do we miss the true meaning and purpose of religion. Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation 27th September 2013 In the divine economy of grace, sin and failure become the base metal and raw material for the redemption experience itself. Much of organized religion, however,...
Love – a way of looking
“Love is not a matter of looking at each other, but of looking together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Born to Love
An Evolutionary Agenda for the Third Millennium
“Applying this larger time perspective to present-time terrestrial crises and urgencies, however, should not be egoically misinterpreted as a rationale to kick back and procrastinate. For if we continue to wait for some deus ex machina, spiritual or secular, to save us from ourselves – some final proof,...
Fanaticism – why pick on Islam?
I received an email recently entitled, “A German’s View on Islam”, and was about to send it off to others, because what it says about fanaticism and the silent majority seemed poignant at this time. But two things caused me to question its integrity; firstly, the original article has...
Enneagram: Adelaide 2013
Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram – Introduction A Weekend workshop introducing the Enneagram was held Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, 2013 at Mary Mackillop Centre – St. Michael’s College Henley Beach, S.A.- The group of 42 participants were introduced to the Enneagram by facilitator Chris Chaplin msc. The Enneagram...
Swiss Abbot Appeals for Church Reform
Abbot Martin Werlen by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, The Tablet, Jan 3, 2013 A fiery appeal for church reform by an influential Swiss abbot has attracted widespread attention throughout Europe, and has, moreover, been welcomed by the future president of the Swiss bishops’ conference. Fifty-year-old Abbot Martin Werlen, leader of the...
The Circle Thingy – Operational Dimensions
I presented this concept in a retreat last year. Someone came up later and asked could they have a copy of the Circle Thingy! So here’s the Circle Thingy These are called operational dimensions because they are the dimensions of our human experience at which different operations function; 1....
ride4acure 2011 Trek launch
Read by Chris Chaplin msc, at the ride4acure Crescent Head to Cottesloe Beach journey blessing, of Esther, Joe, Maura, Titan, Lofty, Meg, Clancy, Bobby, Hamish and Emily, as they begin their epic trek from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean on horseback, in memory of Hanna Rose on her 23rd...
Spontaneous Remission and Right Thinking
“Many cases of spontaneous remission seem to occur after someone makes a massive psychological shift, and re-creates a life that is engaging and purposeful. ln these instances, the patient gets rid of the source of the psychological heartache and takes full responsibility for his illness and treatment. Some people,...
Our Relationship to Church
Timothy Radcliffe OP Timothy Radcliffe OP offered two talks at the National Council of Priests Convention in Warranambool in July 2012. The first, Breathing, is about living in relationship to the Church and the world. The second, Becoming a Leaf, is about how priests work practically in this task....
MBTI & the Enneagram
Spiritual Dimensions of the Enneagram within a Developmental Understanding of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator At Enneagram introduction workshops participants are introduced to a methodology for understanding the human journey from compulsivity and sin, to pathways of freedom through our cooperation with Grace. Click the PDF icons below for the Enneagram...