 Dear Friends,
As I write this, Cygnus is approaching its 16th birthday, and I’m moved to review the past year and express a profound sense of gratitude.
At our 15th birthday celebration last August, Diana Cooper and the many Cygnus readers present helped us open ourselves to the flow of universal abundance, releasing the blocks we still held so that we could receive, on a material level, what we needed to fulfil our spiritual goals. To ground and hold this huge blessing, Diana also gave us a beautiful, swan-shaped quartz crystal cluster.
Looking back on it, this truly was a defining moment, for during the past year, obstacles we’d been puzzling over for ages were finally removed, not only on a material but also on a spiritual level. The Cygnus team is functioning better than ever before; you, our readers, are more enthusiastic than ever before; Geoff and I now have more time to devote to our spiritual needs - something we craved more than food - and best of all, the Cygnus Review has evolved too, and I think you’ll agree that it now provides more, and better, nourishment for the soul than ever before.
One of the main reasons for this, I feel, is the regular contribution we now receive from Diana Cooper, William Bloom and Mary Wainwright. I find it a truly magical idea that this group of people - whom I know and love so much, and who are so devoted to spiritual growth - are willing to reach down into themselves each month, to draw out something that will benefit us all. And I think this applies whether or not you agree with everything they, and we, say. After all, even the things we disagree with can teach us something, can’t they - about ourselves, about appreciation of diversity, or respect as Mary writes about in her letter.
Talking of ‘reaching down into ourselves’, I think that’s something you do, too, when you write for our Chat Page, which also seems to have improved by leaps and bounds. These days, it’s a regular thing for us to be moved to tears when reading the things you have written. So please keep going!
The other reason I think the Cygnus Review has improved is because of the quality of the features. I feel so happy about the ones in this issue in particular. Take Caroline Myss’s article - Entering the Castle - for instance. She’s recently been through a tremendous spiritual epiphany, which she writes about in her new book, Entering the Castle. This book really does something to address the spiritual hunger so widespread these days, taking us beyond the known seas of personal growth, and into the uncharted waters where the spiritual takes over the helm.
Then there’s Sonia Choquette's piece on the subject of Shattering Negative Patterns, an issue which absorbs me deeply at the moment. And Denise Linn has just published a new book - The Soul Loves the Truth - in which she reveals the truth about many incidents in her life of which she had felt shame or fear, and shares with us the important spiritual lessons she has learned simply by being willing to see and accept the reality of these situations. Believe me, the pressures on authors to appear smarter and wiser than everybody else are phenomenal. So the fact that a well-known author is willing to share her deepest fears so intimately with us, in the interests of truth, is absolutely terrific.
And last but, well, first, actually, we have a message from Pierre Pradervand. He too spoke at our last year’s birthday celebration, inspiring everyone with his luminous spiritual integrity and compassion. We are so grateful to be connected with him, and to be the UK publishers of his book, The Gentle Art of Blessing.
Finally, this whole magazine is filled with all the books that have been most popular with you during the last year - our Star Titles - plus some exceptionally juicy new books that we just couldn’t resist.So we hope that - within these pages - you’ll find the inspiration you need right now!
With much love, Ann, Geoff and the Cygnus Team
Photographs © Cygnus Books 03-Sep-2007
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