Author: Henry Morgan
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28. Preparing for life after death
June 2016 I’ve been thinking further about the ‘twins’ story that I told in ‘Why death’. If our time in the womb prepares us for this life, then maybe our time in this life is preparing us for the next: giving us the opportunity to develop the gifts and qualities we will need there ourselves;…
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27. Death as a Gift
May 2016 I have for a long time been fascinated by the idea of consciousness: the inner life that goes on inside our heads and which we think of as our ‘real’ selves as opposed to the external image we present to the world. There is a spectrum of consciousness in our inner world, ranging…
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26. Why Death?
May 2016 I find myself keep coming back to a question that my body posed to my mind during the conversations we shared after the operation for bowel cancer and before we decided whether or not to proceed with chemotherapy [see ‘Listening and Deciding’]. My body asked: “Why am I doing this to myself?” i.e.…
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25. Listening and Deciding
May 2016 I’ve just had my first dose of chemotherapy. I was initially quite opposed to the idea of chemo. I consider my body to be a valued and trusted friend, and he had just gone through a hard time. He had been in pain for some months and then faced major surgery from which he seemed…
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24. Gift in a diagnosis of cancer
April 2016 On a Thursday in mid March of 2016 my GP referred me into our local hospital in Worcester because I clearly had a problem and it was getting worse: I hadn’t eaten much for some time and was losing weight, digesting food was very painful, I had little energy and spent more time…
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23. God speaks in many languages too
April 2016 God of course addresses us in an astonishing range of languages, but most of us only hear a few of them. Let us start by going back to the five ‘love languages’ we humans use. It is an obvious but often not recognised truth, that God speaks most obviously and often through the…
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22. Languages of Love
April 1916 Some years ago I read a book that suggested that there are five different ‘languages of love’ that human beings use: five different ways of our expressing love towards another. I guess that others might come up with a different list, but it named the five as: 1] physical touch: ranging from a…
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21. A New Vision of Christianity
December 2015 A friend of mine, Les Acklam, recently introduced me to some words by John Spong in the introduction to his most recent book “The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic”. I found these words compelling and have shared them with others who have also found that they speak to their experience, so I…
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20. The Reality of Death
November 2015 I’ve been thinking about the terrible events that have taken place in Paris and have found myself wondering why we are so stirred up about them. Don’t get me wrong, it has been a terrible tragedy, but why are we so shocked? Innocent people were killed and that’s awful, but it’s not uncommon. Only…
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19. Feral
November 2015 On holiday in Falmouth this summer, and wandering through the town, I was irresistibly drawn to a bookshop, as I sometimes am. There on the shelf I saw a book by George Monbiot who writes for ‘The Guardian’ on environmental matters. In it he makes an eloquent plea for the re-wilding of some…
A CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY 