Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minA Suitcase Full of Boiled EggsMarch 8th 2020 For those of you that are connected to me on Facebook or Instagram, this post will come as no surprise. I have a personal ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 305 minForgotten Women: HatshepsutAs Tutankhamun’s ancestor, Hatshepsut amassed much of the wealth that he was to inherit. She ruled Egypt, the largest kingdom of the anci...
Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minForgotten Women: The Queen of the NightApril 1st 2018 The Burney Relief, named after a former owner, is the common term for an early 2nd millennium BC (ca. 1950 BC) Mesopotamia...
Rebecca BeattieMay 308 minForgotten Women - LilithAt a women’s event I attended a few years ago, a woman got up to speak about how men have oppressed women throughout history. “I am going...
Rebecca BeattieMay 304 minForgotten WomenApril 1st 2018 Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have a bit of a mission in life to give a voice to some of the forgotten women of h...
Rebecca BeattieMay 303 minThis Week I am ReadingTHIS 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 ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 303 minThis Week I Have Been Reading25 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 ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minThis 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 d...
Rebecca BeattieMay 301 minThis week I am reading21 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 ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minThis 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 l...
Rebecca BeattieMay 303 minThe Meaning of Home: Connecting to the Land in Disparate Places25 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,...
Rebecca BeattieMay 305 minKenneth Grahame - The Missing Nature Mystic15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because i...
Rebecca BeattieMay 303 minVie Medicatrix Naturae15 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 ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minGoing with the Flow30 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 g...
Rebecca BeattieMay 304 minA Week of Mindfulness and Thoughts on Value Judgments18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference g...
Rebecca BeattieMay 304 minMe and Mr. Tolkien13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the write...
Rebecca BeattieMay 303 minPriestess by Rainbow Jo9th 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, w...
Rebecca BeattieMay 302 minThe Rules of Moroccan Mint Tea28 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 ...
Rebecca BeattieMay 3011 minAltered 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 Pric...
Rebecca BeattieMay 301 minIn John Keats' BedroomPosted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Yesterday was a scorcher! While hordes of people were heading for Hampstead Heath, I snuck away down a ...