Soul Lights

Dear Friends, A great many people have attended our workshops over the nearly 20 years we established and ran Heartland. Pasha, our Chinese crested powderpuff, gave boundless love to a huge number of guests……possibly you? That is why it is with profoundest sadness that Trudi and I share with you the very gentle passing of

In 1944 Johnny Mercer wrote for Bing Crosby…. You’ve got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive E-lim-i-nate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with Mr. In-between It was an instant hit and everyone sang it. Problem is that very few people truly understood it…… You see, being negative comes natural to people. Yes, everyone

A regular correspondent recently asked me: “Why is it so hard for so many people to recognise and respect their divinity?” Another included in her reply…. “I still struggle to understand why (leaders)  continue to be so hell bent on war and coercive control?”. My answer to these dilemmas may hopefully help others, too….. All

I do all I can to stay out of politics. I am a Spiritual Guide. So this is about as political as I get……. Peace is the natural behaviour of every sentient being. Everything else is insanity. That is obvious (and if it isn’t my point is proven). Peace is the only effective, loving, constructive,

Quite a number of correspondents have shared the grief they are currently experiencing, both at a personal and communal level. Here’s an example: “I’m finding, on a daily basis, a sense of hopelessness for the future in myself….and I’m already on anti-depressants! Still I walk around with a smile on my face and try to

Thousands of quotes litter the media but let me remind you of two: The first by St Augustine of Hippo (1800 years ago!)……. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” On this planet, at this time, how many people know the right thing

Requiem is a latin word that means “rest”. Its most common use today is as a Catholic mass. But it also means any act of commemoration for those that have ‘passed over’. As such, at a time such as the world is experiencing now, it becomes relevant. For most of us, the horrors of war

Special Message: This week we have all witnessed intense fear, both between Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine and at home between Yes and No…….to mention just three current traumas. I am reminded of Dr King’s famous line in 1958 during the dark days of legalised ‘Black Oppression” in the USA: “Darkness cannot drive out

For forty years I have been sharing my Truths. I have done so from a place of love and generally for almost free. The only costs most people have incurred are the book and meditation cd production costs and venue and overhead charges for retreats and workshops. I tell you this because today – with

During a conversation recently I was reminded that people are generally always too optimistic. Too optimistic??? You may smile…… Most people not suffering depression, yes. Think about it for a moment….. What climate change….? The bushfire won’t take our town…… There won’t be a flood that big for another 100 years….. We won’t go to

Kevin Rudd, when Australian prime minister, said “Sorry” to the native peoples and their ancestors who had suffered at the hands of Europeans. Those foreigners had invaded, taken their lands, destroyed their culture, taken their children and imposed a form of apartheid within the continent they then called theirs – and named it Australia. It

Everyone who has had to suffer one of my self-empowerment seminars or spiritual workshops has also had to suffer Trudi and my chanting along with my encouragement to chant along with us….. So what’s the point, the benefit of chanting? What’s the best time to do it? And what kind of chanting is best? First,

At the end of a weekend program I ran many years ago in Adelaide I was told that a local charity that took young people at risk of prison on a 10 day ‘self-empowerment trek’ across the Flinders Ranges (it was called ‘Operation Flinders’) had run out of money. All staff had been told to

You don’t know what you don’t even know you don’t know. That’s right, you read that correctly. You don’t know anything that you don’t even know you don’t know. So it’s impossible to sensibly go seeking it as you don’t know which way or where to go to find what you don’t know. Because you

I believe our purpose is to be the love we are, deep within. Everything else which we achieve is inconsequential. Fame, wealth, abundance, power, civil honours or success in a sport, a business, the arts, academia or some scientific endeavour are all insignificant by comparison. Only our ego benefits from our popularity, our social reputation,

Someone once wrote: “What if we released ourselves from the need to solve everything, and instead just asked ourselves to make a commitment to add more good things to each day?    It reminds me of the time many years ago when I first moved onto and set up New Veda Spiritual Retreat in the

How would your life be different if since birth you had been told that everyone is connected to everyone else? What if that were your everyday belief system? And what if that connectivity didn’t just relate to other people but also to every plant, every animal, every rock, every living ‘thing’? I don’t mean in

In my last newsletter I asked for feedback. One person unsubscribed; many dozens wrote supporting my views. Below is a smattering of those replies followed by an email I sent as a response to one person. Maybe one of you, one of my readers, would like to take the matter to the next level……????  

I thought I’d change these articles to once a fortnight as I don’t like to intrude into people’s personal space. This week’s message might be a tad confronting for some people…. I apologise, therefore, in advance. Sadly, spirituality can’t be divorced from reality. To see positive change within society we have to embrace it ourselves.

Medical research has now confirmed that your heart is just as involved in your decision-making and thinking as is your brain… In fact, the heart sends out continuous messages to your brain. And your brain replies to your heart. Amazingly,  the signals from the heart come just moments before the brain acknowledges them. If that