It’s been an amazing Summer in Sussex for wildflowers. It may be because I’m usually away filming in July and August and this year I’ve been in Newhaven – but I have been dazzled by the array of wild blossom up on the cliffs behind where I live. And I started nature spotting again. When […]
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Busy-ness: It’s a Manager Thing
The Summer busy-ness is getting amplified I’ve been away. Or rather I’ve been away from my computer. And therefore away from this. But I have been doing good nourishing things, so I hope that I come back a little warmer, wiser, with some things to say. Traditionally (and by that I mean for the last […]
Is Tapping anti-Buddhist?
In the early summer, I ran a course at the Spa Road Buddhist Centre in Bermondsey, London on the subject of tapping and meditation. It was the first time I had taught on these two subjects together, despite having practised and taught meditation for a couple of decades and used tapping in my personal life […]
Words of Wonder #1: Martha Graham
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will […]
The Ego is Just a Phase…
[This is a second excerpt from the recent ‘Tender Heart’ Scarborough Retreat held in March 2019. The first is here. This is a transcript from day 3 looking at the ego phase we all need to grow through… Alistair has just been talking about how when things feel ‘too much’ in meditation we lurch towards […]
Tapping and Meditation: Coming Out as a Practitioner of Both
Tapping and meditation are my guilty secret There’s a thing that I have been keeping quiet about and I’m not sure why. Many years ago, when I was finishing five years of therapy with my wonderful therapist, Ruthie, she looked at me and said: “You realise that we’ve been working together all these years and […]
SMELLING SALTS #6: Carl Sagan
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public […]
From the Scarborough Retreat
[This is an excerpt from the recent ‘Tender Heart’ Scarborough Retreat held in March 2019.] Q: You mentioned the Earth being already enlightened and that it was the Earth that made us enlightened, not our own efforts, Can you elaborate on that? A: The truth is that the thinking mind, the ego, can’t get anywhere […]
Alistair Appleton LGBT video: Survival of the Gentlest
Alistair Appleton LGBT video Survival of the Gentlest A few people have mentioned this YouTube clip of me giving a ‘sermon’ at the wonderful Brighton Metropolitan Community Church a few years back. So I thought I’d post it here since I didn’t put it up here the first time around!
Mögu & My Problem with Teachers
The need to be a ‘know-it-all’ I have a problem with teachers. When I was little – for various reasons I won’t bore you with – I always felt that I had to know the answer before the question was asked. The possibility of being wrong or not being ‘perfect’ was a big problem for […]
