SUSALL

For some time now I have been holding a series of workshops under the general heading "SUSALL":

Seekers Uniting Spiritually All Loving Learning

These are a series of 24 interactive workshops which I can run at any location - indeed some of you may already have attended one or two or heard one of shortened versions I've held at Mind Body and Spirit fairs these past couple of years. All I need is a room and a willing and interested or intrigued audience! If you are interesting in hosting one or a series, or want to know more, please contact me via the blog comments or email me here. The 24 themes are as follows:

1) (L)earning from Past Lives

2) Looking 4 Your Higher Self

3) (L)earning with Angels

4) Sacred Secrets, Healing Sounds

5) Invisible Powers In You All - Spirit Tech?

6) Many Minds At Play - Multiple Intelligences?

7) How Kind is Kosmic Karma? - Cause and Effect?

8) Creative Philosophy, The Making of Me - Mapping the journey more accurately

9) Looking-Glass Alice & Today's Ageless Indigos?

10) Dreams and Astral Astronauts

11) My Identity Audit - Shaping my spiritual Profile

12) The Aquarian Gospel, Peace and Inter-Faith Teachings on Non-Violence

13) Religions, Robots and Rabbits

14) Discovering Atlantis - In You

15) Singing Up The Chakras

16) Unexpected Angles on Astrology

17) Soul-Centred Education - Completing Karma

18) Brain-Gym and Energy Management

19) Meditation as Medicine - DIY divinity

20) Creative Philosophy - Cradle to grave and beyond

21) My Identity Audit - The making of a better me

22) Spiritual History - Through 7 rays and multiple cycles

23) Cosmic Classrooms - Inter-dimensional intentions

24) Sacred Fables - with unicorns and totem animals

25) Dishonest to God

The above subjects are outlined in more detail on the dedicated SUSALL blog page which you can access via the button at the top of the right-hand sidebar or here

Indian Summer

Anyone out there familiar with education in India? I have been invited out there towards the end of the year to run teacher training seminars. An exciting prospect given the midges don't bite too hard too often!

I'll be fascinated to discover in what ways the traditional aspects of their diverse culture are being successfully integrated into a more westernised mode of teacher delivery. Any insights, comments, insults, jokes or other that can illuminate this topic will be warmly appreciated by me.

Thanx in anticipation,

Christopher

Soul Educator

I Get an Award!

I am very pleased to announce that United Press have awarded me the accolade of Writer of the Year in their True Life Story category for 2010.

The story was entitled "Behind the Curtain" and was about my early fascination with theatre and my first steps on the boards. It will be published in a collection to be issued this coming March, more details to follow nearer the publication date.

Civil war and slugs

Earlier I suggested that President Obama was a reincarnation of President Lincoln. This was not to suggest that the current president of the USA will come to a similar end but the fact that he is of mixed race surely would seem to be significant. Lincoln, in his day (or rather his nights) received dream guidance, especially before the different battles during the civil war. During the civil war, although republican, he was central in leading the fight for the emancipation of the slaves. Since the assassination of "I have a dream" Dr. Martin Luther King, the downgrading of the black communities has been somewhat alleviated, helped I would suggest by the global reputation and good will of the ex-president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Back to Obama; if karma works in reverse it's interesting to suggest that this time round he's not a Republican. Further, in terms of his spiritual mission now will he not help to build benign bridges between the possible warring factions of religious fundamentalists, be they Christian or Muslim. Indeed, if another civil war is pending on that continent because of say, people enslaved by poverty or the opium of some belief system, which section of society might endanger the prevailing power system the more? Will it be helped or hindered by the constitutional invitation to bear arms?

Back to slugs, and I don't mean bullets! Can anyone tell me why in my kitchen there is a breeding family of slugs? Their slime trails appear overnight and it's only in the darkness that one can capture them and thereby despatch same back to their maker. What I'm asking is, given my kitchen door is so near to green stuff (they demolished my spinach) why are they coming indoors and for what food? I'm told it's fun to get them drunk on beer but for a teetotaller that's surely not good advice! Should I drown them in a happy woozy state of bliss? After all, if they're going to the slug heaven already full of bliss, shouldn't they really feel more at there than in my kitchen? Slug lovers, please respond!

Poynton, Cheshire 19th April

If you live in the Cheshire (Wilmslow, Stockport), North Derbyshire or Greater Manchester area you may be interested to know that Christopher will be giving a talk entitled "Singing Up The Chakras" at Rosemary Douglas' Mind Body and Spirit Fair at Poynton, Cheshire on the afternoon of Sunday 19th April, sometime between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Regretfully, on this occasion, Christopher will not be exhibiting at the fair but the talk will be for one full hour!

Poynton Civic Hall is located just off Park Lane in Poynton, Cheshire - map here - which is south of Stockport. The fair runs across the whole weekend, tickets £3 & £4 on the door or £2 & £3 in advance (see website for details). Arrive early and visit the wide range of exhibits, have a reading or take in another talk. There are refreshments available locally and plenty of free parking. Poynton is situated in a lovely area with plenty of other local attractions

Hope to see you there!

Gardening

When I was a teacher I felt it was like gardening people. Many of them were in bud, many bruised and a few blooming awful. Joking aside, some were coming into bloom well before others. Now that I'm retired and gardening with plants rather than with people it seems to me there are similarities worth exploring. Slugs! Do you know how amazing they are? Their sense of smell is far better than a police sniffer dog. They can catch the scent of a favourite food 20 feet away. Maybe some of you have found slugs and sometimes snails halfway up a high wall and wondered what on earth they are doing there, not on earth. My friend, Richard, typing this, suggests feeling high, it's time to mate. Any comments on that?

This puts me in mind of Eleanor Roosevelt. She once had a garden rose named after her. On reading the catalogue, she was far from feeling flattered. The words read, "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall." Sex education in schools, unlike the birds and bees in gardens, is considered a controversial topic, except to kids. Do you think teenagers throbbing away at their desks should be introduced to an anecdote, in the name of history, the like of which relating to Mrs Roosevelt is given above? Also controversially, if there are "slugs" and "weeds" in a classroom who refuse to be fertilised by the wisdom of the teachers, as in the Garden of Eden, should they be expelled. Please spot the anomoly in my logic as demonstrated above! (I used to love teachers who could admit error, when the were in the wrong. Trouble is, I can't remember any). YOU?

On Tour!

If you live in the North-West of England you may wish to know that Christopher will be exhibiting and speaking at two Mind, Body and Spirit Fairs this coming weekend, 7th and 8th March 2009.

On Saturday 7th March between 10am and 5.00pm he will be at the excellent Mind Body and Spirit Fair held by MBS Fairs at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool, L9 5AS. He will be giving a talk at 13.30 entitled "Religions, Robots and Rabbits". Aintree is quite easy to find, but directions are here and the fair is held in the Exhibition Centre which is straight ahead of you as you enter the course. Look for Merlin! There is usually ample parking on site and refreshments are also available. Entrance is £4 adult, £3 concessions. Accompanied children under 16 are free.

On Sunday 8th March between 10am and 6.00pm Christopher will be at the Nantwich Mind Body and Spirit Fair organised by Rosemary Douglas and held at Nantwich Civic Hall, Beam Street, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 5DG He will be giving a talk at 14.30 on "Sacred Secrets, Healing Sounds". Nantwich is on the A500, J16 from the M6, about 3 miles west of Crewe and again, there is ample parking very close by the Civic Hall. View a map here. Refreshments should be available on site but the beautiful town of Nantwich is well served with alternative refreshment venues. Entrance on the day £4, concessions £3. Advance tickets and weekend passes are available, see website.

Christopher will have a range of material available for sale on both days and is always ready to discuss any aspect of his work - look forward to seeing you there!