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 … Read more

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, … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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, … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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……????   … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more