Pulsatilla The Hun
At popular request, I will pen some homeopathic Materia Medica, and this first essay is on behaviour problems and childhood tantrums. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.27.2006 :: pathology :: No Comments »
Archive for June, 2006
The May Pole
Back to our pagan roots!
In Druidic times, the 1st May was a fertility festival where the goddess of sexuality and fertility would be celebrated, firstly by everyone dancing around a May Pole (her traditional symbol) and then disappearing into the ‘greenwood’ to undergo nuptials. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.25.2006 :: History :: No Comments »
Chess in Crete 2000BC?
Apparently the game of chess did not begin in India! It may have evolved into its modern form there in about 600AD, but the game was known in many forms for millenia. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.23.2006 :: History :: No Comments »
The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent
I am reading The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent, no doubt because of the furore surrounding the Davinci Code.
Mr Baigent’s chapter on The Mysteries of Egypt interests me greatly. He describes how the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts concern ‘transfigurations’ - in other words, the techniques of travelling from this world into the ‘far world’, becoming an ‘akh’ or a ‘being of light’, and returning with ‘out of body experience’ - ‘working with’ the divine (theurgy) in order to be guided, or initiated. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.13.2006 :: Book Reviews, History :: No Comments »
The Perfect Storm
I watched The Perfect Storm for the first time this week, and it reminded me so very much of the sort of turmoil that occurs inside the soul in trauma cases. Imagine one hurricane. Then imagine two hurricanes, meeting and combining. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.09.2006 :: pathology :: No Comments »
The Davinci Code
Well, this book has proved a great conversation piece in my consulting room lately, as it seems everyone is talking about it, one way or the other.
I am amazed how the earlier books written on this topic are so generally unknown, so on popular request, I mention just a few of them here. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jun.02.2006 :: History, film :: No Comments »