Herman Van Rompuy on meditation: “We become more empathetic towards our fellow human beings”
Herman Van Rompuy on meditation: “We become more empathetic towards our fellow human beings”
Julian of Norwich (1342-1429), contracted the Black Plague Pandemic in England, and is a saint for our times
by Paul Harris * The Black Death, a viral pandemic in England and Europe in the 1300’s, killed 50 million people, 60 percent of the population, and it is regarded as the greatest catastrophe in recorded history. It destroyed a higher proportion of the population than any other single historical event. The disease was carried […]
Online Meditation Amidst Pandemic
Please BE with us during Benedict’s Well every Monday at 9am BST on Zoom with Live Streaming on YouTube.
Paintings – acrylic on paper and canvas
By Elizabeth Nolen This is the response to the invitation to share my soul’s creative expression with the WCCM community through these challenging times. These are a few of my favorite pieces painted in acrylic on paper and canvas in/through this pandemic. I began painting intuitively in the summer 2014 in response to an unfamiliar […]
Andrew Harvey: This crisis is evolutionary – it is pushing humanity into universal active compassion
Laurence Freeman leads a conversation with the author and philosopher Andrew Harvey Where is the meaning of the crisis through which our world is passing? This is the guiding question of a conversation between Laurence Freeman and Andrew Harvey, who have been friends since they were both students at Oxford. For Andrew, the world is […]
Poem – They Said
By Marie O’Flaherty I have explored several forms of meditation in the past and attended a WCCM group every week for some time. After a bit of a gap, I have returned to a regular meditation practice. I am currently taking one of your online courses, and a course on teaching meditation to others. I […]