by Chrissie Astell | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
I wonder how you are feeling as you read this? Super sensitive, exhausted, slightly shaky? We certainly are in strange times, and many of us are picking up all the extra-ordinary energies like the flotsam of a shipwreck floating on the waves of a raging sea. How are...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 24, 2016 | Blog
In every situation, every day, we have decisions to make. Things that perhaps we need to be mindful of. Some are easy, like whether or not to get out of bed or what time to leave for work, and others are pretty difficult decisions that require a lot of thought, like...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
Every year at the Summer Gathering of our group of New Essenes I’m reminded of the importance of friendship. We all roll up in varying shapes and sizes, with our smiles and warm hugs and as we get older we bring our many aches and pains too. Healing is offered...
by Chrissie Astell | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog
I’m writing my blog today from the Essene Summer Gathering in the beautiful countryside House of Saint Katherine’s of Parmoor in Buckinghamshire. It is a wonderful old place with a really interesting history. Having been used as a residence for King Zog of Albania and...
by Chrissie Astell | May 27, 2016 | Blog
There are thousands of pilgrimages to sacred sites all over the world. We could join a group leaving for some exotic and far away place every day. We can pick up a guide book and find sacred sites all over the world, and in our own country – wherever we are. As...
by Chrissie Astell | May 21, 2016 | Blog
Where to start? How can I possibly convey in words the awe and wonder? I’m still holding it, and can feel it in my body five days after landing back in the UK from my Pilgrimage to Jordan and Israel. I’m finding it hard to write down and express the...
