THE MYSTICISM OF CYRANO DE BERGERAC By: HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN - are we really beloved of God? And if we believe it to be so, we might also ask, is God our beloved? Or is it only that we are beloved of God?

VIEWPOINT ON THE WOMEN'S CONFERENCES IN BEIJING By: EMMA AMYATT LEIR - We know that officials tell porkies, but at least in the West we can work out what's fact or fiction by the variety of views on offer. The Chinese have no such opportunities.

DESERT WISDOM - BY: NEIL DOUGLAS KLOTZ - The Middle Eastern tradition from the Goddess to the Sufis, reviewed by: AYESHA FOOT.

H.H.THE DALAI LAMA'S SPEECH TO CHINESE STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS IN BOSTON - continuing his message for a peaceful solution to the human rights situation in Tibet and another to the American people on his visit to the United States in September.

We continue with our ASTROLOGY WORKSHOP with Sue Stacy and this month we have a special feature on the mysteries of 'ECLIPSES' By:Rowena Wall of Starstuff

Claire's diary this month explores the nature of 'UGLINESS', Angelique shares her journey into movement with a poem 'MIRRORS'. Learn about the REIKI system of healing from Margaret Pauffley and Paul Dennis. We find out 'THE MAGIC OF BEING WELSH' By: Christina Lambourne, and go on a trip into the world of our ELDERS with Sue Mayo. Jude Brown transports us into the aesthetic world of the senses with THE AROMA TRAIL, and we follow Chris James into our sense of sound with 'LISTENING'. Finally Joseph O'Connor gives us the low down on 'METAPROGAMS' with an index to his series on NLP.

In 'The Poetree' this month we include 'Seasons' by Margot Henderson. We have a very special story from Richard Kineti in Zimbabwe about hunting and his dog Zvirido - Topman. We look at the ancient powers of the sun in 'Journey to the East' continuing our journey round the Native American Medicine Wheel.

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