C E JONES, author | the Soul Lore blog

My website is changing: From April 2025, new articles will be sent out in the Soul Lore newsletter. This blog is now reserved for back issues of the newsletter, for longer essays, and for book reviews.

  • Bookshelf: Marie’s Christmas Carol

    Bookshelf: Marie’s Christmas Carol

    Marie’s Christmas Carol: winter’s journey… wild hunt — a magical tale in the true spirit of Christmas. It’s Christmas Eve, and what Marie likes best about Christmas is that special, anything-is-possible feeling, when magic can happen or an adventure of some sort. [Continue reading]

  • Newsletter Back Issues

    Newsletter Back Issues

    The Soul Lore newsletter is produced with the following aim: To give hope and encouragement and to further stimulate the process of sincerely seeking for truth. A link to all back issues can be found on this page. [Continue reading]

  • A Duel At Dawn

    A Duel At Dawn

    Not long ago I had the following dream experience. It was so vivid that when I woke up I believed for a moment it had all just taken place in real life. I was standing outside in an open area, a heath wreathed in mist. [Continue reading]

  • A Journey in the Spirit World

    A Journey in the Spirit World

    A transcript from a recording made in 1977/8 of a guided meditation led by Li Chang Su: In front of us there is a hill to climb. The colour force of the aura lifts us up as though we are weightless, our feet helped to move swiftly on the grass. [Continue reading]

  • Bookshelf: Soul Lore

    Bookshelf: Soul Lore

    Answering fundamental questions about life, death, and the afterlife, Soul Lore is the esoteric teaching that encourages spiritual development through personal experience and raised awareness of the secret inner self. [Continue reading]

  • Book Review: The Third Eye

    Book Review: The Third Eye

    I was a teenager when first reading The Third Eye on my father’s recommendation, and I wasn’t disappointed. It had all the elements I was interested in knowing more about – clairvoyance, the aura, astral projection, and similar subjects. [Continue reading]

  • Book review: Autobiography of a Yogi

    Book review: Autobiography of a Yogi

    Yogananda (1893 –1952) was born with the name Mukunda Lal Ghosh. As well as documenting his own path through life, his autobiography offers many interesting anecdotes about the succession of sages and holy men and women he encounters along the way. [Continue reading]