Insights From the Edge
Each month Angela makes available a full-length reading on whatever is most pertinent to humanity at the time. The topics cover a range of aspects about the human condition from health, money and parenting to personal and collective evolution. The insights are radical, yet gentle; profound yet surprisingly practical, and attract interested readers from all over the world.
Insights From the Edge will inspire you, challenge you and equip you to live in the middle of the risky, new and wild place that is Joy.
The sample Insights From the Edge is entitled ‘Working with Rejection’ and is available to you as a free download.
If these kinds of teachings appeal to you, there are ten such
readings available through the year on our Insights From the Edge
subscription, which works like this:
• One year’s subscription to Insights From the Edge (will be TEN
issues), which includes recording, transcription and tips on
application: R 400.00 per person
• Pay-as-you-go purchase of the above teachings: R50.00 per issue via
EFT
How to Subscribe
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For Pay-as-you-go access to the individual Insights, please follow the links below.
Insights From the Edge August 2011
Game of Life
The August Insights From the Edge invites us to position life as a game and explains the essential qualities shared by both. This reading includes important teachings on competitiveness, mortality, goals and whether or not money is a reward for living your biggest life.
Insights From the Edge July 2011
Fundamental Rest
The July 2011 Insights From the Edge teaching examines the concept and practice of ‘Fundamental Rest’. You will learn what fundamental rest means, the four prerequisites for allowing it and the powerful benefits (most importantly, self-love!) of practicing this regularly. The reading also makes clear why and exactly how your ego will resist rest and includes a practical system for starting out.
Insights From the Edge June 2011
On the Way With Joy
The June 2011 Insights From the Edge is called ‘On the Way With Joy’ and teaches two central concepts: a model for co-creating what you want, making some space for grace and not only willpower and intention and, secondly, the highly liberating idea that we are wired to experience Joy from the moment we are on our highest path, NOT only once we have achieved it. Wonderful truths!
Insights From the Edge May 2011
The Third Wave of Growth
The May 2011 Insights From the Edge teaches us about the three phases of personal evolution: delight in the physical world, followed by a focus on what is spiritual and, thirdly, the ability to devote equal sacredness to both. The reading explains various characteristics and challenges of each phase and how to make the leap into the third. There is also a good explanation about using both internal and external co-ordinates to help you discern exactly where you are at any given moment.
Insights From the Edge April 2011
The Philosophy of Embrace
The Philosophy of Embrace’ suggests an approach to life that is beyond coping and even learning. This amazing teaching asks us if we are holding ourselves ‘at arm’s length from our reality’ and shows the four most common defenses we use to that end. It’s an invitation to embrace what is, as a doorway into wholeness and divine peace.
Insights From the Edge March 2011
Giver or Blesser
Insights From the Edge in March gives us an invaluable distinction: are you a Giver or are you a Blesser? One comes from a wound, involves trying and creates heaviness. The other comes from joy, has no attachment to outcomes and creates empowerment. Liberating stuff!
Insights From the Edge February 2011
The Experiencer and the Observer
The February Insights From the Edge explains our two minds: the Experiencer mind and the Observer mind. It teaches the difference between the two and stresses how both are valuable and necessary for full life. There is a list of symptoms to look for if you suspect you give more time to observing than experiencing and four steps to correcting this imbalance. A very useful distinction, especially for the cerebral among us!
Insights From the Edge January 2011
The Power of With
‘The Power of With’ is a daring invitation into living a ‘with’ life instead of a ‘without life’. This reading makes it clear that the only way to do this is to stop, turn around and face whatever you have been running from, what it is you most fear. The illusionary nature of a fear can only be seen and be dissolved when you are intimately close with it. In that moment, you choose a ‘with path’ (instead of flight or fight) and Divinity is experienced profoundly.
New Year Reading for 2011
The December 2010 Insights from the Edge is the reading I did on 30 December about what to expect in 2011. It is a beautiful and useful teaching that speaks of three main ways to approach 2011 with ‘the wind at your back’: (1) Understand that collective intent (groups) is both your downfall and your superpower, (2) Put down your past and (3) Live in conversation with your body. There are fascinating insights related to those three aspects as well as to the future of humanity, rising temperatures and the coming disintegration of groups that are based on judgment
Insights From the Edge November 2010
Working with Rejection
The November Insights deals with a topic familiar to all of us – rejection. The reading speaks of both the inevitability and necessity of rejection to a full, focused life and opens up ways of working with this experience. It also introduces an extremely useful concept, your ‘bottom line state of wellbeing’, in which it is suggested that we invest ourselves more than in attempting to control our circumstances.
Insights From the Edge October 2010
The Secret of Showing Up
In ‘The Secret of Showing Up’, the October Insights From the Edge, two invaluable distinctions get drawn: the difference between real change and cut-and-past change and the difference between showing up in a particular way and simply showing up. These distinctions can free you up in a number of areas of life, including exercise, parenting, saving and, in particular, your relationships with other people and with Divinity. This is a very important teaching for anyone with the tendency for low energy, or withdrawal.
Insights From the Edge September 2010
The Camino and a Walking Stick
The September Insights From the Edge is a magnificent system for stillness. It uses the age-old concept of a pilgrimage, or Camino, and inverts this to invite you onto an inward walk, a journey to your own core. As part of this teaching there is a separate visualisation called The Six Pools, which can be used as a daily tool, or walking stick, to guide you on your own path inward. No book, teacher, philosophy or system can ever mean more than this, your own direct experience with your real self, or divinity.
Insights From the Edge August 2010
Desire and Sexuality
‘Desire and Sexuality’ is the theme of the August Insights From the Edge. It begins by outlining three truths that help us navigate with our desires without being consumed by them – a very useful blending of Buddhist observation with recent teachings on Joy. The teaching then moves on to a celebration of human sexuality and intimacy – stretching these ideas far beyond the ways in which we regularly express / contain ourselves in this area.
Insights From the Edge July 2010
The Fall
To me, the two most revolutionary concepts that have arisen from my readings in the last three years are, firstly, that the purpose of life is Joy and, secondly, that we don’t climb to the next level of existence, we surrender to it. It is the latter which is beautifully introduced in the July Insights From the Edge. Entitled ‘The Fall’, this teaching begins with a visualization and goes on to explain that if we make life a process of continually loosening our identity, we will always be evolving and will experience ourselves as ageless.
Insights From the Edge June 2010
Celebrating the Question
This month’s Insights From the Edge, which you can subscribe to or buy on a once-off basis from our online store, is called Celebrating the Question – I love it! It calls on us to value our questions as the mechanism for forward movement and to be careful of overvaluing answers / solutions as well as the providers of answers / solutions i.e. our teachers. The reading also raises the question of whether the purpose of life is to achieve something and explains clearly the three effects of being motivated by a destination, rather than a deepening.
Insights From the Edge May 2010
Living Lightly
The May 2010 Insights From the Edge, which you can subscribe to or buy on a once-off basis from our online store, is called Living Lightly. More than just inviting us to recognise that in a state of play we are more receptive to learning, creativity, risk and imagination, this teaching takes the notion of lightness right to the cliff-edge when it asks whether we will play our big roles in life better or worse after putting down our ‘backpack full of rocks’ (burdens). At times, it seems quite scary to me to take life lightly but the arguments put forward in this teaching are compelling. Take a read.
Insights From the Edge April 2010
The Art of Surrender
The April 2010 Insights From the Edge is called ‘The Art of Surrender’. It explains clearly what surrender is and isn’t, lists the Four Steps to Surrender as well as its magnificent effects: stillness, grace and being in the middle of the flow of love.
Insights From the Edge March 2010
Walk of Life
The March 2010 Insights From the Edge is called ‘The Walk of Life’. It starts off with an interactive story and ends up offering a fascinating new way to choose, listen and live…
