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This Week………. THE VALUE OF REGULAR MEDITATION & PRAYER “The long term studies of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer have increasingly shown that the brain can change over time. Individuals who practice prayer and meditation over many years have been found to have thicker and more active frontal lobes than non-practitioners”. (adapted from … Read more

Dear Friends, WHAT ACTUALLY ARE YOU!?!?! Have you ever considered what you actually are? Are you primarily a body with a brain? (When the body stops the brain does too). Or maybe simply a brain operating through a body? (When the brain stops the body does too). When you look at your naked self do … Read more

Groundhog Day is celebrated on 2nd February in the USA. It’s supposedly the day that groundhogs come out of hibernation and peek out to see if it’s Spring yet. If it’s not, they return to their burrow for another six weeks or so of slumber….. In the 1993 movie Bill Murray relives the same day … Read more

This Week………. Lao-Tzu once wrote….. We shape clay to make a pot. But without the emptiness inside what use would it be? We create doors and windows to make a room. But only the space inside makes it useful. Living beings create many things – jobs, houses, cars, furniture, nations, gardens, clubs, songs, books, plays, … Read more

Dear Friends, Do you think that the humble caterpillar ever sees itself as a butterfly? (There it is wandering along the branch of a shrub singing to itself “Me oh my! Soon I’ll be a butterfly!”……). No. It simply focuses on being what it is right now. And that is a caterpillar. Not a caterpillar … Read more

Dear Friends, Exactly 100 years ago AA Milne wrote his famous children’s book. In it Piglet asks Winnie : “How do you spell L-O-V-E?” And Pooh replies: “You don’t spell it – you feel it!” Ah!! There’s the problem, eh?! Most of us know how to spell it – our problems often arise because we … Read more

Dear Friends, Below is the declaration a group of spiritual teachers (myself included) propose for the Peoples of Planet Earth at this tumultuous time….. We call upon all people of conscience, across every culture, faith and nation, to unite for the common good so that we may ensure a sustainable, flourishing future for all. If … Read more

Dear Friends, I have written a regular self-realisation column for over 33 years now; and have been publicly “connected” to a non-human “guide” (called Mordechai) for well over 40 years. In that time I have constantly harped-on about us “being Love”. Indeed, my favourite saying (which I have on my t-shirts) is : Love is … Read more

We all know that solitude and introspection is a highly sought after state of being. We undertake silent retreats, ‘go within’ to access deep levels of emotional peace and use alone-time to mentally resolve many troubling aspects of our busy and often confusing lives….. One-ness is always easier when we are alone and quiet and … Read more

A Christmas Tale….. Is the child in you still alive? Do you have (or know) children or grandchildren for whom the magic of Christmas still shines brightly? Below is the story I wrote and Trudi illustrated for every Aussie adult and child at Christmas. It’s pure Australiana. It’s in big print so you can read … Read more