Dr. Rebecca Beattie

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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,...

23 March 2016 I have a bit of a soft spot for forgotten women. Previously, this has expressed itself as fascinations with Hatshepsut,...

15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...

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...

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...

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...

13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...

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,...

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...

Last weekend was the Altered Consciousness conference at Queen Mary, University of London, and was beautifully organised by Dr. Katy...

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...

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...