Esoteric Essays

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, …

There seems to be an impetus to change moving through the world – a sort of pressure to move up to the next level of potential and possibility; to intuit and perceive more expansive goals that will guide our thought, energy and resources into a new civilisation, one that lives in interdependent awareness within the whole of the world, of …

There is always movement, growth, progress – even while we observe the decay of the familiar and the pull of entropy drawing all forms back into the reservoir of substance, at the same time everything is being remade in newer shapes for newer times. And our observation makes a difference. It initiates change and stimulates growth. According to a Wikipedia …

Watching events across the globe, from our local community to the international stage, it appears our world is at a crucial point of balance, teetering a little, backwards and forwards, between the unreal and the real as though we are more consciously living out the ancient prayer: Lead us from Darkness into Light, from the Unreal to the Real, from …