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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Jason Hine on the curse, & blessing, of the Geis
This is an interesting post from Jason Hine, on the ‘Geis’ theme. It’s a ‘friends only’ Facebook post, which he has kindly given us permission to re-post. Jason links to an article on http://www.mythandmore.com – link right at the bottom of … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, awakening, consciousness, embodiment, empowerment, growth, healing, identity, Jason Hine, Joseph Campbell, Jung, meaning, metaphor & dream, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, reality, self, self concept, shadow, spirituality, transformation
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ancestral pain, awareness, becoming, becoming a person, belief systems, body awareness, breaking the curse, Carl Jung, conditions of worth, Conn-eda, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, destiny, embodiment, empowerment, enantiodromia, expanding awareness, fairytales, fate, fulfilment, Geis, good enough, Heinrich Zimmer. King and the Corpse, hero’s journey, integrating shadow, internalised experiences, Jason Hine, Joseph Campbell, low cost counselling exeter, metamorphosis, myth, mythology, not good enough, owning shadow, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, reconfiguring self, sacred, sacred calling, sacred obligation, self concept, self realisation, self realization, self-structure, shadow, storytelling, symbol, transformation, unhelpful belief systems, vocation, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Building The World’s Largest Underwater Sculpture – The Creators Project
Fascinating project, where art, ecology and ethics meet. Here too is another clip, with more footage of the Cancun sculpture park:- And here’s the website:- http://www.underwatersculpture.com/ Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling in Exeter since 1994
Posted in beauty, creativity, cultural questions, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, metaphor & dream, natural world, paradigm shift, sustainability, wonder
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, Breef, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, Creators Project, Jason deCaires Taylor, low cost counselling exeter, man-made reef, manmade reef, marine ecology, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, saving ocean habitats, underwater sculpture, underwater sculptures, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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To Go Beyond Thought – Karen Armstrong
Click on the link below for a wonderful, wide-ranging piece by Karen, with gratitude to Parabola Magazine. Here’s a taste:- ‘When a child dies, we want a scientific explanation but that’s not all we need. We need some kind of … Continue reading →
Posted in actualizing tendency, awakening, compassion, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, ecological, empathy, ethics, fear, growth, immanence, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, meditation, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, paradigm shift, perception, political, presence, reality, self, self concept, shadow, spirituality, transformation, violence
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ahimsa, aliveness, altered state of consciousness, altered states, altruism, approaching truth, Axial Age, belief systems, beyond thought, bridge building between traditions, Buddhism, charity, child ego, child spirituality, child state, compassion, compassionate behaviour, Confucianism, Confucious, congruence, conscience, consciousness, core self, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, Dalai Lama, de-armouring, dearmouring, deepest self, early psychology, ecological disaster, ego mind, egoic death, empathy, engagement, enlightenment, environmental catastrophe, environmental disaster, experiential learning, experiential wisdom, fear, fertile unknowing, fighting your demons, flexible intelligence, frightened ego, fundamentalism, golden rule, heartful living, hero’s journey, hierarchy, Hinduism, human soul, humility, ignorance, inner world, internal locus, internal sacrifice, intuitive, intuitive reality, Jainism, Karen Armstrong, Karl Jaspers, logos, loving kindness, low cost counselling exeter, meditation, Monotheism, my religion is kindness, mystery, mysticism, myth, mythos, negative capability, nirvana, nonviolence, not knowing, obscurity, open heartedness, openness, orende, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Parabola, Parabola Magazine, person centred counselling exeter, personal shadow intuitive knowing, Philosophical Rationalism, Plato, political disruption, positive thinking, practice of compassion, presence, presence of God, primal emotions, quest motif, radical honesty, rational thought, rationality, release of ego mind, release of the mind, religious belief, religious doctrine, religious imagination, religious intolerance, religious knowledge, religious traditions, religious war, sacrifice, second order thinking, Self, self concept, self observation, self-structure, sense of darkness, shadow, Socrates, spiritual essence, spiritual immaturity, spiritual materialism, spiritual reality, spirituality, St Paul, symbolism, Taoism, The Great Transformation, The History of God, thinking and knowing, Tracy Cochran, transcendence, ultimate reality, unconscious, undeveloped spirituality, unknowing, witnessing, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yin
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Rob MacInnis – Farm Series
This Facebook link shows one in a series of Farm portraits, taken and constructed by Rob. Some are lovely, some are funny, some are incongruous. All are layered. For the writer, there is something subtly disturbing and uncomfortable…. The images ask … Continue reading →
Posted in abuse, beauty, compassion, creativity, cultural questions, cultural taboos, Disconnection, diversity, empathy, encounter, equality, ethics, interconnection & belonging, natural world, objectification, perception, photographs & pictures, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, shadow, sustainability, violence, vulnerability
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Tagged affordable counselling exeter, compassion towards animals, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Farm Series, human perception of animals, human treatment of animals, low cost counselling exeter, objectification, objectification of animals, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, perception, person centred counselling exeter, Rob MacInnis, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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Ascension by Jacob Sutton, Opéra National de Paris
Just beautiful…. The dancers are Hannah O’Neill and Germain Louvet. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994
Posted in beauty, communication, creativity, Dance, embodiment, encounter, flow, physical being, relationship
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Laura Delano ‘Six Years after Booze’
Click on the link below, for a powerful post from Laura. We regularly feature her work on this blog. Huge respect for her personal journey, and her commitment to challenging the current toxic psychiatric paradigm. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter … Continue reading →
Posted in abuse, actualizing tendency, awakening, civil rights, clients' perspective, consciousness, consent, cultural questions, Disconnection, emotions, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, identity, internal locus of evaluation, Laura Delano, loss, paradigm shift, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, resilience, sadness & pain, self, self concept, self esteem, suicide, transformation, trauma, values & principles, violence, vulnerability
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Tagged addictive behaviour, affordable counselling exeter, anti-psychiatry, authenticity, coercive psychiatric treatment, compulsive behaviour, congruence, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, despair, disease and disorder model, external locus, forced psychiatric treatment, growth, healing, holistic approach, holistic healing, identity, internal locus, Laura Delano, loss, love, low cost counselling exeter, medical model, mental health system, mental illness, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal journey, presence, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, psychiatric treatment, Psychiatry, psychotropic drugs, realness, recovering from psychiatry, relationship, self concept, self trust, self-structure, sense of self, They say you're crazy, trauma, unmet need, well-being, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, www.recoveringfrompsychiatry.com
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Brian Thorne on power in person-centred therapy
In this passage, Brian is looking at a 1986 paper by Jerold Bozarth and Barbara Temaner Brodley, exploring what they saw as supporting assertions implicit in Carl Rogers’ 19 propositions – and which may therefore be included in a person … Continue reading →
Posted in Brian Thorne, client as 'expert', cultural questions, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, non-directive counselling, person centred, person centred theory, political, power, power and powerlessness, psychiatry, relationship, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, working with clients
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‘The Truelove’ David Whyte
Beautiful poem about coming home to love, from David. Lovely picture too. One or two of our readers are having difficulty reading some FB links, so here is the text:- THE TRUELOVE There is a faith in loving fiercely the … Continue reading →
Posted in awakening, beauty, creativity, David Whyte, embodiment, emotions, encounter, flow, identity, immanence, interconnection & belonging, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, poetry, presence, relationship, risk, sexual being, touch, trust, vulnerability
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The Life of Death – Marsha Onderstijn
Extraordinarily resonant and tender animated film, about relationship, love, loss and letting go. Five minutes of beauty and heartswell. The writer sobbed, and felt softer and more loving afterwards. Gorgeous music too by Ramon de Wilde. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, beauty, compassion, creativity, cultural taboos, dying, emotions, empathy, encounter, friendship, grief, immanence, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, metaphor & dream, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, sadness & pain, surrender, tears, touch, transformation, trust, vulnerability
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Maria and Allan on living without money
Thank you, Seeds for Change, for this post. And Maria and Allan, obviously. The last paragraph says it all. One or two readers have had a difficulty seeing Facebook links, so here is the text, just in case:- “We have been … Continue reading →
Posted in acceptance, awakening, compassion, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, good, gratitude, human condition, kindness & compassion, love, meaning, mindfulness, non-conforming, paradigm shift, perception, power and powerlessness, presence, resilience, risk, self concept, self esteem, transformation, trust, vulnerability
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