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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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