The Worldview of the Hedgewitch
April 7th 2018 I have been digging through some of my old writing, and dusting it off. It's no use sitting on my hard drive, is it? This...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
This Week I am Reading
THIS WEEK I AM READING... 29 AUGUST 2016 This Blog series should really be titled 'Travels of a Book Slut' on account of the fact that I...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
My Name is Rebecca Mary Mohamed
23 October 2016 My married name is Rebecca Mary Mohamed. That's one name for each of the three Abrahamic religions, and yet I am none of...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
This Week I Have Been Reading
25 June 2016 Never one to only settle for one book at a time, and eager to escape the real world for the fictional one, this week I have...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
This Week I am Reading
19 June 2016 This week I have returned to an old favourite, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It's been many many years since I...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
This week I am reading
21 My 2016 I have gone back to visit a very old friend. I am re-visiting Robin Hobb's fantasy novels about the Fool and Fitz! She is now...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
This Week I am Reading 'The Ship' by Antonia Honeywell
(and it is exquisite!) 10th May 2016 Update: Its a dystopian novel set in a world very like our own, but after a cataclysmic event. The...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
An MA, a PhD, and ME
10 May 2016 This week is ME awareness week, and its quite timely for me. For the last six weeks or so I have been thrown into quite an...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
The Meaning of Home: Connecting to the Land in Disparate Places
25 March 2016 London has been home now for almost twenty years. I adore it. I love the bustle and the excitement of being in the capital,...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
Re-imagining the Past - Writing the Diary of Mary Webb
23 March 2016 I have a bit of a soft spot for forgotten women. Previously, this has expressed itself as fascinations with Hatshepsut,...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
Kenneth Grahame - The Missing Nature Mystic
15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Vie Medicatrix Naturae
15 November 2015 I had an important insight into the mind of Mary Webb this weekend, which is really important to the work I am doing at...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Going with the Flow
30 October 2015 One of the skills I am learning as I grow older is in not trying too hard. There is a skill to be honed in just letting...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
A Week of Mindfulness and Thoughts on Value Judgments
18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
Me and Mr. Tolkien
13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
Priestess by Rainbow Jo
9th August 2014 When I started on my spiritual path some fifteen or so years ago, someone shared a very special piece of wisdom with me,...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
The Rules of Moroccan Mint Tea
28 January 2014 This is the story I was told... When a Berber girl reaches eighteen years old, she is deemed old enough to marry. Should...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 11 min
Altered Consciousness Conference 1918-1980 (November 2013)
Last weekend was the Altered Consciousness conference at Queen Mary, University of London, and was beautifully organised by Dr. Katy...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Research Heaven
Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Well, I must confess I have been a little quiet on here. I have been buried deep in the research, and...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 1 min
The Silences of the Moon
Posted @ 10:43:38 on 20 January 2013 The best moment of my week was running into a teenager on the tube who really surprised me. I...
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