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, 20203 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 202011 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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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