Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Women Moving the Edge

November 19, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Cool Stuff I Recommend, Featured

Women Moving the Edge

In 2006 I got an email from a friend that invited me to a gathering she was co-hosting in Belgium called Women Moving the Edge. “I have no idea what that is” I thought “but that is so cool and I know I am moving something, so I am going!”
In February 2007 I attended the [...]

“You Are the Chalice!”

November 10, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Featured, Gallery, The Art of Transformation

“You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a chalice being held up by two hands. I was struggling. My mind went to work, playing with line and color, trying to bring that image into form on the paper. The hands I drew were stiff, the chalice lifeless. [...]

Backyard Enlightenment

November 10, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Expansive Ways of Knowing, Gallery

Backyard Enlightenment

Three hours! How can I walk that long? That was my reaction to the assignment from my Masters program in Transpersonal Psychology. “Go outside for at least three hours, if not eight. Have no plan. Just go where your feet take you. Learn to trust your intuition and pay attention to all you experience.”
“I don’t [...]

The Lost Symbol

November 10, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Featured, Our Possible Future

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol is causing a stir. No surprise. I couldn’t put down The DaVinci code as it spoke deeply to my love of the meaning behind symbols and the depth of the feminine mystery. It sounds like Dan has his hand on the pulse of the important issues of [...]

Maori Egg Hunt

August 1, 2009 by Lisa Abby  
Filed under Expansive Ways of Knowing, Featured

Maori Egg Hunt

Years ago I attended a workshop at the Omega Institute in New York titled “Other Ways of Knowing”, led by Jon Broomfield, New Zealander and former head of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Jon showed us a  short film that changed the way I viewed reality.
It was film of a Maori elder, (New Zealand [...]