Odyssey Magazine

Odyssey Magazine publishes content to nourish, uplift and inspire, exploring all aspects of holistic and conscious living, the joy of living authentically, integrative approaches of complementary healing, spirituality, metaphysics, the intuitive arts and our integral connection with nature, planetary wellbeing and the mysteries beyond.

Awakening

Odyssey Magazine

Odyssey Magazine • Looking Back to Look Forward

Editor's Note

The Higher Principle • Noun: a particular course or line of thought especially as related to mutual understanding

Living in the new age • Based on the work of Carl Rodgers Ph.D. The Father of Humanistic Psychology

Celebrating those that set you on fire

Jiddu Krishnamurti • The thought leader who didn't want to be followed

When you love money, money will love you back • Do you love money? Do you really, really want it? Do you pay attention to it, appreciate it, give it your time and energy? Or do you give it mixed signals – wanting it one minute and denying your relationship with it in the next.

A guide to the seasons of spiritual awakening in the real world of a busy life • From the moment you start to awaken, you experience the seasons of your soul. Some of us easily wake up to who we truly are; some need a cup of coffee first. Which season of awakening are you experiencing? The autumn of seeking, the winter of suffering, the spring of seeing or the summer of self-realisation?

'Doing Human Better' • A focused, outcomes-based approach.

Food as a Spiritual Practice

Brahmārpañam: The Food Prayer

From High Horses to Humble Pies

African Botanicals • Mother Africa, Earth Medicine

Mother Africa, Earth Medicine • The continent of Africa is a vast treasure trove of traditional medicinal wisdom. The people that live here continue to rely strongly on plant medicine for their wellbeing and the practice of traditional herbalism is an important component of cultural systems of resilience and self- sufficiency. At the heart of African medicine is the sangoma. She is the gateway through which medicine is given to the community. It is she who is the keeper of medicine and the conduit for the wisdom that comes from the Earth Mother.

The Role Of The Traditional Health Practitioner In Modern Day South African Context • Institutional Context: The practice of African traditional medicine (ATM) in South Africa was historically informal and very rudimentary as previously eroded by the introduction of western culture in the continent. The practice of ATM remains a spiritual calling more than a career. I was privileged in that, as I started my journey as a healer in 2000, there was a conscious effort by South African healers to get formal recognition by the South African government, through direct interaction with the national Department of Health.

Making and Administering a Flower Essence

Essential oils as vibrations and how they tune to the energy body

Aromatherapy and Alzheimer's • How to Use Essential Oils and Aromatherapy to Stimulate Memory and Prevent Cognitive Loss Associated with Alzheimer's Disease

Looking To The Past To Help Us Change Our Futures • The healing potential of ancestral African botanicals.

African Ethnobotany and Psychoactive Plant Lore • Most people whom I tell I am an ethnobotanist have a perplexed look and “say what is that?”

Green Medley - Medicinal Cannabis • Druids conjure up images of long-bearded men, dressed in mediaeval wardrobes, tinkling bottles and meandering through the woods to find their sought-after flowers, roots and herbs to make their secret, natural healing tinctures.

Dietary Diversity with Indigenous Fruits • In the autumn 2022 edition, Chris Viljoen introduced the Odyssey...