Hello,

Welcome to Thousand Wing Press. I’m Zoe. Originally from Britain, I’ve lived and worked in many countries. In 1999 I moved to the Netherlands to live with my partner, a Dutchman, and Amsterdam has been my home ever since.

My professional life has always revolved around education and contemplation. For many years I taught English as a foreign language in France and Belgium, where I also organized conferences and seminars for international management training companies. I have also facilitated workshops, led retreats and given talks on the contemplative life in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.

Whatever job I’ve been doing, there has always been a creative, contemplative inquiry going on. Meditation together with writing and photography have been ways of digesting and integrating experience, and of helping me dive more deeply into the landscape of consciousness - the soul space. I’m not attached to any particular religious tradition, but have been inspired by the study and practice of Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism.

Thousand Wing Press is the imprint, the publishing hub; the place where the work becomes integrated and shared. The Dutch word for “publish”, uitgeven, literally means “to out give”. This out-giving is naturally accompanied by an inward turning. As with the ebb and flood tides, the flow is sustained by the pulse of life; a cosmic intelligence. There’s no efforting, only joy, generosity, and an inherent wisdom at source, which is infinitely patient, and heedless of any returns on investment.

I hope this blog inspires you to explore new places in and around you.

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Publications:

Liminal Life; graveyard photography & the art of interbeing Thousand Wing Press, 2023

The Still Desert Thousand Wing Press, 2023

Book of the Heart; a personal history of seeing Thousand Wing Press, 2017

“As a Candle Whirled” Vedanta; 366, July-August 2012; Bourne End, UK, ISSN 1355-6436

“A Kind of Nerve” (contributor) Zen Without Dirty Hands? Couste Que Couste; Hoorn (2002) ISBN 90-807042-3-7

Living Faithfully with Passion Woodbrooke College; Birmingham (1992) ISBN 0-9510455-2-0

“Finding Our Place in Europe” Quaker Monthly; London 1991

“Learning in a Religious Society” The Friend’s Quarterly; London (1989)

“Women in Poverty” Women, Poverty and the Economy; World Council of Churches; Geneva (1989)

A Quaker Theology of Pastoral Care Pendle Hill Publications; Wallingford PA (1988)

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