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I’m a Quaker. I have been for more than 20 years now. At the heart of the Quaker Meeting for Worship lies silence.  Pierre Lacont describes the silence of the Meeting like this:  ‘In silence [...]

I do yearly short silent retreats for two to four consecutive weeks on a regular basis at Gaia House in Devon and this November the skies have been particularly clear. Star light takes on a [...]

I was at a seminar recently where we were divided up into the usual predictable groups at which I confessed to my group I found what most people had to talk about stultifyingly boring or trivial. [...]

When I stood by my dead mother’s side once the hospice staff had readied her for her coffin I knew then there is an absolute silence in death. At that time of night the hospice was readying [...]

By avoiding gluten for just four short weeks you can induce a significant change in both the composition and the micro biome of the gut. This avoidance will cause a significant change in at least [...]

Of the 72 participants who had their memories put to the test 48 hours after assimilating new information those who exercised afterwards within four hours retained much more than those who [...]