by Peter White | Jun 23, 2019
On the 28 May I attended a conference organised by the Uniting Church in North Parramatta around the psychological effects of the threat of the Climate Emergency (CE). It was an innovative, positive gathering of like-minded people concerned about our future and...
by Peter White | May 16, 2019
“There is tremendous longing for the direct experience of God but not certainty. Here is a poet who talks to God while doubting God.” Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist who wrote exquisite prose of love, life and God. Stephanie is a...
by Peter White | May 7, 2019
I was reading the thoughts of an American Sufi mystic and writer Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee in his article in the Parabola journal, Living the Moment of Love. He speaks about practicing spirituality in this time of the “Great Forgetting”, the times of global environmental...
by Peter White | Mar 27, 2019
During the final stage of a recent solo NatureConnect session in an intimate forest enclosed gully, I met a thick, gnarly old eucalypt quietly beckoning me. In my meditative state I was drawn to the gaping crevasse spreading up the trunk, my intrigue pouring into the...
by Peter White | Dec 28, 2018
Mindfulness has been used in various contexts – spiritual, psychological and therapeutic – to refer to a contemplative technique of taking a non-judgmental approach to observing the flow of experience within each moment. As well as technique, it can be used to...