Esoteric Essays

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 …

Some days are so bright with sunshine that one can’t help but feel joy bubbling up and dancing through one’s veins. And then we hear the news reports from around the world about the desperate troubles which still beset humanity in spite of all the progress we have made into enlightened living. Yet, amid all the horror of what is …

Our compassion flows out to those suffering pain and terror amidst the conflicts that ravage so much of our planet. And while our hearts weep for those in pain and we work to bring aid to them, it is increasingly critical that hope be kept alive and be allowed to flower into those solutions that lead to the peaceful understanding …

Though the words, house and home, are often used interchangeably there are subtle differences that register in our energy response. The word “home” seems to draw on a deeper realm of being and belonging. We might call “home” the house in which we dwell, or the city, state, country or any location which we imbue with a sense of home. …

As we progress through life, and memory lengthens with the years, we are able to plot the amazing growth and development of the human mind within our own living experience. We can track through our own lifetime the journey into these modern times where we live in a virtual sea of data and mental stimuli – still accelerating with the …

As with many essential aspects of our daily lives, we take the presence of light for granted and perhaps only rarely look at it as the marvellous mystery it really is. It is as familiar as breathing but if we focus the searchlight of our mind on it, we may penetrate into just how vast that mystery is. An opportunity …

These days we find so much being presented through the media and the internet on the latest research and discoveries about our physical makeup and in particular about the brain – how it works, how we can augment its realised capacity or adjust it to resolve physical or personality problems. Some examples we have heard from are: Todd Sampson who …

“Who do you think you are?” may be asked in the most ordinary of everyday circumstances but the television program of that name presents an historical journey of discovery through someone’s ancestry and, in so doing, brings deeper understanding of past events and conditions, and so expands our sense of the progress, betterment and refinement of civilisation. It is deeply …

From villages to cities, it seems that the more densely populated our communities are, the more we humans seek to express in light and the more inspiring and central it becomes to our daily living. From the flickering glow of open fires and candlelight to the electric power of light bulbs, fluorescent tubes and laser displays we have extended our …