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Adrienne Jeffries Consulting

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8332 5407

Address: 2 Stonyfell Road, Stonyfell 5066 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://adelaidecounsellingconsultants.com.au/

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25.01.2022 First we must transform ourselves, then the world will transform. - Krishnamurti The way I see it, by living through these unprecedented times, we are being gi...ven a unique opportunity to recognize what is real and important, an opportunity to wake up and to think for ourselves and to take responsibility for our thoughts and actions. It’s time to stop blaming others for the state of today’s world and if we can’t do that then surely that makes us part of the problem. There are countless opportunities for transformation and for learning ways of expressing more compassion and love. By being more peaceful in myself and in my relationships, by becoming more aware of the part I play in creating peace around me, I can contribute to the transformation that is possible within my community and in the world.

24.01.2022 Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ~ Rumi

18.01.2022 Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead ...to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said." We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized. - Ira Byock.

15.01.2022 So glad you can join us for Sheldon King Live on Mars (Melbourne) tonight! Please SHARE. And show your appreciation here: PayPal.Me/sheldonion

15.01.2022 I received this message this morning and I wanted to share it in honour of this beautiful sage that has been in life for so many years and is now preparing to t...ransition. I am breathing gratitude for the amazing, gentle, and amazingly powerful life of Thich Nhat Hanh. He is 94, and evidently, the end is near. We are hearing that he is no longer taking food. Ordained as a monk aged 16 in Vietnam, Thich Nhat Hanh soon envisioned a kind of engaged Buddhism that could respond directly to the needs of society. He was a prominent teacher and social activist in his home country before finding himself exiled for calling for peace. Martin Luther King nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize. His teachings have impacted politicians, business leaders, activists, teachers and countless others. Among his gifts: The next Buddha may be a Sangha. He coined the profound term Interbeing. He wrote To be is always to inter-be. If we combine the prefix inter with the verb to be, we have a new verb, inter-be. To inter-be and the action of interbeing reflects reality more accurately. We inter-are with one another and with all life. Please join him and the millions of people who appreciate him, and me, in breathing gratitude and grief for the life of this great being, holding awareness that he is moving on from this world.

14.01.2022 In 1974, Norman Tindale’s indigenous map of Australia was published and 50 years of work recognised. At the same time, a new method of dating called carbon dati...ng proved beyond all doubt what he had argued for decades; that the Aborigines had inhabited the Australian continent for tens of thousands of years today, it is known that they arrived on the continent over 50, 000 years ago. Yet still we don't educate our children of the traditional owners of the land. There were over 500 different clan groups or 'nations' around the continent, many with distinctive cultures, beliefs and languages. Today, Indigenous people make up 2.4 per cent of the total Australian population (about 460,000 out of 22 million people). There were many different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities made up of people who spoke different languages with various cultural beliefs, practices and traditions. Before 1788 there were approximately 700 languages spoken throughout Australia with an estimated population of 750 000 people. See more

14.01.2022 SOULCRAFT MUSING: Pilgrims in the Liminal Time Part II by Geneen Marie Haugen Friday, October 9, 2020... This is the second part of a multi-part Musing (one per week). How do we respond when besieged with images and stories of wildfires and inland hurricanes, floods and epic drought; a pandemic eluding capture; a cannibal economy flattening the poor, fattening the rich? Images of fundamentalist religions and endemic misogyny, authoritarians scrambling for control, or democracy in peril? Add in the tragedies of biocide and extinctions. Racial violence, police brutality, militarism. Crop failures. Depleted fisheries. Desperate migrants. Debasement of Earth’s living systems. Psychospiritual severance from the more-than-human world. No wonder individuals and communities are brokenhearted, grieving, enraged or maybe hoping for a messiah. So much destabilization at once, like a nightmare of balancing on a tightrope over a deep crevasse seething with pit vipers and fiery fissures. Our consumer-industrial civilization implodes for some even while so many others expect a return to normal. Even people who might have anticipated collapse or at least a significant interruption of worldview perhaps did not anticipate the enormous imbalances the Hopi call Koyaanisqatsi that would sweep us up like a tidal wave or burning forest. Maybe we didn’t anticipate the hardened hearts and divided populace. Some Americans prepare for race war while others encounter the unsettling psychospiritual terrain of our own hidden racism and colonized minds. Inequalities that touch all aspects of our lives are plainly evident. Invisible in the dominant media are any indicators that we might be evolving toward dignity for all creatures; toward celebrating diversity (in human people and in other-than-human people); or toward regeneration and healing for the planetary body that is our home. Intimations that we’re unfolding toward a human presence that honors Earth’s life support systems, or toward the generative possibilities of the human imagination, or toward following the waters of soul are hard to find. We have to look off the beaten trail for a different story, for hints of the many individuals and organizations who engage their potent work at the wilder edges of the dominant culture, who devote themselves to deepening the relationship between human beings and the wild Earth, or to living in partnership with mystery, or committed to the exploration and evolution of human consciousness.[1] To read the entire musing: https://animas.org/books/bill-plotkins-soulcraft-musings/ Collage by Douglas Van Houten #soulcraftmusings

10.01.2022 From my Under The Skin podcast with Michael Meade Mosaic Voices! An incredible storyteller and expert in mythology. You can listen to the entire podcast on Luminary - it's worth it!

09.01.2022 I did not know that! Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspap...er obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. [] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know. Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate) OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE. Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge. Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard. Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy. Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payneafter telling her not to publish). Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work. Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science. Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

08.01.2022 Time to repost! "The horizon of the psyche these days is shrunk to the personal, and the new psychology of humanism fosters the little self-important man at the... great sea's edge, turning to himself to ask how he feels today, filling in his questionnaire, counting his personal inventory. He has abandoned intellect and interpreted his imagination in order to become one with his "gut experiences" and "emotional problems"; his soul has become equated with these. His fantasy of redemption has shrunk to "ways of coping"; his stubborn pathology, that via regia to the soul's depths, is cast forth in Janovian screams like swine before Perls, disclosed in a closed Gestalt of group closeness, or dropped in an abyss of regression during the clamber up to Maslovian peaks. Feeling is all. Discover your feelings; trust your feelings. The human heart is the way to the soul and is what psychology is all about. My practice tells me I can no longer distinguish clearly between neurosis of self and neurosis of world, psychopathology of self and psychopathology of world. Moreover, it tells me that to place neurosis and psychopathology solely in personal reality is a delusional repression of what is actually, realistically, being experienced. The whole world is sick.and you can’t put this right by having a good therapeutic dialogue or finding deeper meanings. It’s not about meaning anymore; it’s about survival. Well, what can I do about the world? This thing’s bigger than me. That’s the child archetype talking. All I can do is go into myself, work on my growth, my development, find good parenting, support groups. This is a disaster for our political world, for our democracy. Democracy depends on intensely active citizens, not children. Psychoanalysis needs more dissidents, more even than Laing and the antipsychiatric movement; it needs its own terrorists of soul in the sense of a radical seeing through of its fixed investments in profession its banks and insurance, its law courts, its palaces of bureaucracy to return soul to the world. Today we need heroes of descent, not masters of denial, mentors of maturity who can carry sadness, who give love to aging, who show soul without irony or embarrassment." James Hillman