Soul Lights

Last night Trudi and I celebrated our (joint) birthday and also our wedding anniversary. Then we had an argument, a very rare happening, but very unsettling. I tell you this because you receive and probably quickly read my articles – and I wouldn’t want you to think I write from a life of self-satisfied self-realisation,

The Master smiled at his small entourage of hopeful followers. They were fisherman, trades-people with a smattering of middle-class folk, all seeking an end to economic, social and religious domination by outside interests. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within” he carefully stated in his most carefully crafted Aramaic. “Is that it?” asked someone in the

There was once a Master who loved nothing more than to help others self-realise. One day a young man approached and asked for the older man’s help. The older man sized him up and then told him to go home and first repair all his hurt relationships, quit all his guilts and resentments and let

Everyone on Planet Earth is part angel, part animal. If this offends you because of all the ‘work’ you have done to lift your vibrations toward the spiritual, I apologise. But it makes no difference. If you are on this living life-orb as it spins on its axis around this part of our galactic neighbourhood,

Easter these days is mostly a time for relaxing and enjoying oneself. For some, it’s the time for celebrating the holiest event in the Christian year. For almost all of us it’s the time for Easter eggs and hot cross buns (both of which, along with Easter itself, actually existed well before Christianity took them

Life, sometimes, can seem overwhelming. In fact, after we ‘wake up’ to our divine place in the scheme of things, it can often seem even more so! We become aware of the problems caused by dumpsite disposal of plastics, of the rising salination of productive lands, of the tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of

During the week one of my close ministerial friends sent me a prayer in the form of a phone call to God. In part it said: I want to ask you please to keep, My family and Friends safe and sound. I froze with guilt – guilt that in the past I’d nodded in supportive

Last week we shared a delightful brunch in a bustling café overlooking the Pacific Ocean with two beloved friends. One, researching for a book, eagerly asked me “what is your philosophy of life?’ My answer was that I don’t have one. My friend, who knows me well, seemed flummoxed. “Of course you do! You must

Recently I have been writing about Faith and Gratitude and how they can transform our lives in ways which seem more like miracles than ordinary, everyday spiritual abundance. Below are two stories received from readers who share their own wonderful miracles through using the very simple process I encourage everyone to embrace. Hi Les &

Giving Thanks for our previous home and also finding a new property weren’t the only surprising events that occurred as a result of giving thanks and trusting in the Divine. The necessary finance, itself, was another example. After I had taken the $50 I had in my wallet (one of the very few I had in

Selling our valley property (last fortnight’s article) wasn’t the only surprising event that occurred as a result of giving thanks and trusting in the Divine. Heartland, itself, was another example. Trudi and I had been searching for a venue where we could live and work in one place rather than live at our valley and operate

Recently I told a Group the story of how Trudi and I came to sell up and move to Chatsworth to establish Heartland. We first went for a long forest walk and talked about maybe making the move and selling our beautiful valley which was surrounded on all sides by forest and was accessible only

True Forgiveness arises out of acceptance. Often in the western world forgiveness is expressed as a form of pseudo-compassionate judgement: “I forgive you for what you did”. Yet is this true forgiveness? Most often it’s more of a probationary sentence that actually implies: I am aware of what you did but I am willing to

Why strive to be something you already are? Why not simply allow it to unfold? Does a young daffodil strive to bring forth its golden trumpet? Does spring strive to bring forward summer? Does the seed act like the tree it once will be? Does a tadpole strive to jump like a frog or a

Our negativity is an addiction. Addictions take many forms from being addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, drugs and gambling to being addicted to sex, celibacy, money, poverty, love, hate and everything in between. Addiction is a habit we don’t seem to be able to find the energy to break. Habits are a form of ownership and

We sabotage ourselves because deep within we’re afraid of disgracing ourselves. This fear we express as two seemingly opposed dysfunctions – sometimes as fear of failure and at other times as fear of success. Most of us utilise both forms of fear to handle different situations in our lives. But in truth, they’re both the

You don’t actually die – although it certainly looks that way! Your physical body starts to decompose because the energy body that gives it life – commonly called the etheric body withdraws its sustenance. With its life-energy withdrawn, the physical body starts to quickly dissipate and return to the constituent states from which it was

Of course. In fact, no major religion denies the continuation of life after death. They simply differ in the ‘small print’ of where and how this happens. The Jews of 2,000 years ago acknowledged multiple lives: as noted in the Bible, they asked was Jesus not Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the other prophets? The

To stay more awake, simply stay more observant. Allow the centre of yourself to change from exclusively being the Doer to also being the Observer of the Doer and your doings. So often we undertake chores and activities and only later remember what we did. Many find they can drive from place to place and

Consciousness is the state of awaked-ness. Most of us imagine we’re awake most of the day, but in fact we’re really in a heightened state of sleep, the level of sleep at which we can still carry out a varied range of ordinary yet automatic processes. These range from getting up and going to the