Esoteric Essays

We may speak of “heart and soul” yet, in a sense, are they not one and the same? And surely we are seeing the heart of humanity moving to the fore with a new point of view – of balance – emerging, as ordinary human hearts open to the great diaspora of refugees fleeing the dire circumstances from which we …

If everything we nurture is a seed of the future, we might need to consider what kind of future we are creating from the substance of our energy and focussed attention. Since everything carries within it the potent force of its potential we are always in a position to direct that potential towards constructing a world which – deep down …

In the movie Fly Away Home a young girl becomes a surrogate parent for a brood of Canada geese hatchlings. She even learns to fly an ultralight plane in order to lead and teach them their migratory path – across borders, laws, procedures and regulations – to a safe haven in a warmer climate for a cycle of new life …

The recent Vivid light festival in Sydney treated visitors to marvellous and interactive light creations all around the city and harbour – a reminder of the wonder of what we know as “light” – and we are only just at the beginning of our journey into its true realms. It can be so easy to take light for granted when …

We’re probably all familiar with sayings such as “a man is known by the company he keeps” or “birds of a feather flock together”. Yet even in these ordinary expressions we find reflections of Life principles, those undeniable laws and forces which guide the evolutionary process of all we know. It is true that everything is energetically drawn to the …

As New Zealand and Australia commemorate the centenary of ANZAC Day on 25th April this year, forces seem to be flowing through the national psyche which continuously re-form and sustain a sense of national group identity, a sense of identifiable being. What is perhaps significant in this year of centenary is that a deeper enquiry is taking place into the …

In the BBC Documentary, ‘Echo: An Unforgettable Elephant’, a story unfolds of the wise and beloved matriarch of an elephant family. Through all the vicissitudes of life and death she leads, holding the threads of an unbreakable web of relationship through which love flows and wisdom is transferred. It is a living web we call “family” and is deeply and …

Since the 1960’s we’ve seen reflected in presentations and publications a sense of great change at fundamental levels – much deeper perhaps than our immediate attention might discern. Our daily living seems to follow much the same pattern as it always has and yet as each new generation enters the stream of human consciousness and as each new scientific and …

While we might often use the word, “sharing”, many interpretations can constellate around what it means in essence. It is an apparently simple concept yet it has generated a vast complexity of systems, values and priorities that its essential impulse (or spark) may have become lost in the surface phantasmagoria of materiality. We see reported the market value of “shares” …

In this festive season when gatherings of family and friends seem to be the order of the day, how often are such meeting points arranged? It is that time, at the end of one year and the start of a new one, when we feel drawn together to share that moment of meeting between memory and anticipation, old and new, …