Soul Lights

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

A respondent to a recent newsletter wrote: “I had a light bulb moment when I read “everything was already in existence. It was simply waiting for me to uncover it”…… I’ve lost my way Les. I’m IN THE WAY of allowing “everything” to come into fruition. Instead I work tirelessly struggling to manipulate my world!

What does success mean to you? For some people it may mean gaining a certain title or position in a business. For others it might mean buying a house or a boat or a particular car. For still others it might mean being accepted as a member of a particular club or organisation or fraternity.

I received an email which said: “You asked for suggestions about what your newsletters might include and I’d be interested in your views about the soul’s journey when we die and its connection with spirituality.  I have my understanding, however, I’d love to hear your version; and seeing there appears to be so much grieving

Many of us start a meditation practice but find it either boring, tedious, too complicated or simply a time-waster. So we give it up and return to the hurly burly of reactive brain-work. Six months’ down the track we wonder where our peace and delight in the everyday has gone…….and we yearn for the stillness,

Welcome to childhood. Some of us mistakenly believe we have broken free of childhood behaviours, attitudes and characteristics and somehow morphed into a different kind of creature commonly known as an ‘adult’. Many of us attribute higher levels of development and intrinsic value to this supposedly ‘advanced’ and somehow ‘superior’ level of species development. I

I suggested a short time ago that you “hold onto your fork” because “the best was yet to come…..”. But I also suggest that you hold onto your knife….. I am reminded of the young girl who was busy painting a picture. Her teacher asked her “What are you painting?” She answered without hesitation “A

I have supported many people through their healing journeys. One of the first taught me about the Power Of Words. It happened over 35 years ago when John lived at Emu Plains in Western Sydney….. He suffered from a cancerous growth visible from his jaw to his neck which had spread through his body. He

ACRONYMS for……..Always Choosing Respectful Opportunities Nurturing Your Metaphysical Self. Many thanks to everyone who responded to my E.A.S.T.E.R. article with its acronyms…… they were amazing!! Peter offered…. Engaged Awareness Sustains Truth Eternally Renewing   Heidi offered…. Enter Awareness Sitting Thoughtless Encompassing Reality   Marguerite offered…. Encourage Awareness Serenity Truth Empathy Realisation   Maria offered…. Exciting Amazing Sparkling Times Encourages Richness  

Easter is upon us. The only faith I have “belonged to” in the last fifty years is my own. In that time I have been neither Christian, Jew, Buddhist nor Hindu. So, for me, Easter is either an ancient tale, remembered each year by those who honour the beautiful Spiritual Teacher it relates to –