Compiled by Bob Hunter Beryl Pogson and members of her Work group often used the image of a rogue elephant to symbolise the usually irresistible impulse that takes over the natural role of our emotions and plays havoc with our thinking. However, Mrs Pogson
(1885-1967) exchanged metaphor for plain talking when explaining how unpleasant
feelings govern the lives of us all. Any who imagine themselves immune
from the disruptive influence of negative emotions may well see new potentials
in life when they read this selection of her talks on the Her down-to-earth
approach to esoteric techniques - readily applicable to everyday life
- gives a fresh vitality to the practice of self-development. In this
book she not only diagnoses humanity's chaotic emotional condition but
shows clearly how to reconcile the contradictions between what we are
and what we could and, readers may come to agree, should be. The focus
is on a raising of consciousness, initially An example of Beryl
Pogson's charming style is that her analogies to the regenerated inner
life range from Gospel parables to the representation of the soul in the
play Peer Gynt and the more conscious way of taking events depicted by
the fairytaleTom Thumb. |