A Meaningful Life
My memoir recounts a lifetime's journey exploring alternatives: kibbutz, hippie communes, academic education and research. eco-architecture, communal living and so on.
Findhorn Reflections
The book is an insider’s perspective and is both a ‘love letter’ and a critique.
Visions Unseen – Aspects of the Natural Realm
We humans often need some kind of proof or verification before we can accept the idea of metaphysical realms and Beings. Frances Ripley offers us a unique verification through her beautiful drawings of the elemental and devic kingdoms, and through her story of how she came to draw them.
My Generation – Epilogue, End Words and Eulogy to the ’70s (chapter 28)
"What if [...] we don’t have much time or choice in the matter, we’d better make the most of everything by living each day to the full in the most loving caring passionate way we can.”
My Generation – Surrender and acceptance (chapter 27)
Having tasted utopia and survived I found the greatest gift was the revelations I witnessed when faced with the dynamics of all kinds of diverse people coming together in a spirit of openness and co-operation.
My Generation – Madonna of the Whales (chapter 26)
I began a new and painful cycle, learning to accept that when fullness has been reached, there comes a time of emptying, a death, a rebirth.
My Generation – Two trips, big changes (chapter 25)
We were nearing the end of the halcyon years of the '70s and everything that was seen as nonessential, extraneous, frivolous, was being dismantled – as in any recession – the arts were the first to suffer.
My Generation – Round the bend (chapter 24)
Sometimes you have to ‘go round-the-bend’ in order to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
My Generation – A bit of a rant (chapter 23)
Putting up resistance in the face of difficulty only makes it worse, let it be, accept it, and no matter how hard, the key to changing it – is to love – that’s all you need. By our own power we can do nothing but be a channel, its love that loves through us; to put aside the ego, the small self (that always seeks retaliation) is to be a channel for love.
My Generation – Celebrities, expansions and slippery slopes (chapter 22)
The three commandments to the Artist: Thou must start, Thou must not fear, Thou must be true to your own dreams.
