Esoteric Essays

Like many familiar truisms, the saying, “home is where the heart is”, contains the truth of an underlying principle. The more we contemplate its words, the more we penetrate the world of meaning and thence into the vaster dimensions of the world of significances. Individually and collectively our home is where our heart is, and critical world events are serving …

The tide is turning towards a new consciousness that will be the foundation of the coming new age with its more enlightened civilisation and culture – one that is inclusive, compassionate and aligned with the divine purpose embracing all God’s creation and nurturing it towards its sacred destiny. As outrage mounts at the atrocities inflicted on innocent children, vulnerable people, …

Our living world is so familiar that we may take it for granted without thinking of the magical power that enables a tiny seed to grow up through the earth towards the sun, unfurling all its hidden beauty and beneficence as it reaches into the light. And just as the plant is drawn to the sun, so all are drawn …

Have you ever sensed a mighty Presence, a purposeful beingness, behind the visible appearance of things? Perhaps looking at the expanse of the ocean or a breathtaking view of a landscape vista, or a view of a great city as the poet, Wordsworth, described: “Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! … And all that mighty heart is …

The oath a witness in court undertakes to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” is familiar to most of us either through TV courtroom dramas or direct experience. It can be so familiar that our thinking might bypass the deeper significance behind those words. As has often been demonstrated, our perception of what is true …

Those who are awakening from the thoughtform of the passing civilisation are now seeing clearly the breaking down of all that formed part of the age now ending. They see how the limitations of our understanding and sense of identity have led to the destruction of our world and the oppression of the innocent. At the same time, new points …

We stand at the beginning of 2025, the year we have long looked towards and prepared for. It is a new year like no other before in that much that we held certain, foundational and permanent is crumbling and we can begin to discern the new arising in its place. In the well-known words of Christopher Fry: “Affairs are now …

As we approach Christmas and come to the end of another year, we might wonder: how far have we really come? What was the goal we were aiming for? Perhaps, in the confusion of unexpected and unprecedented world events, we may even have lost sight of our goal or wondered if what we were aiming for was all that we …

Have you ever had a thought such as: “No one will notice if I drop this rubbish here, it’s only small” or “This little white lie won’t matter and it will save me embarrassment”? Then perhaps, if we keep thinking, we may begin to wonder: “How many millions of people might be having these same thoughts and acting on them?” …

As the spiral of evolution continues to expand into its upward trajectory our world moves from one point of balance to another between past and future, destruction and creation, old and new, fear and love. And in the current moment we seem to be arriving at an unprecedented and precarious point of balance as the human heart awakens from a …