Esoteric Essays

As our hearts reach out to all those suffering during the great changes moving through our world, we might also hold in supportive thought the “front-line workers”, those who alleviate suffering and bring food, medical care, shelter, and emergency services. A global army of generous hearts is marshalling into active service. From large international agencies to small community initiatives, all …

At the heart of any society can be found common sayings that contain our sense of values and how we interact and live together. We may smile at some of these as they convey a caricature of an aspect of our group personality such as those in the Australian vernacular like “she’ll be right, mate” or “fair go”. Although they …

As floods devastate riverside towns in Europe, wildfires rage in America, famine stalks farming communities in Africa, and sea levels inundate homes on Pacific Islands, the reality of climate change is becoming very real, immediate and personal for millions of people around the globe. And the pandemic is a constant reminder that global forces are the causative impulse behind what …

Those who love our world – our beautiful planet – are those who will make it the lighted home that has always been intended by the great Life Who brought it into being. Can we imagine a world of light in which we see the light in one another and in all things, and sense the loving purpose of the …

In a world where global events and forces are becoming more urgent and critical, our view of things is being brought to a higher vantage point, changing our perspective on everything from whole world issues through to our own personal way of living within that larger context. As we realise our interrelationship with our world and within a global community, …

As the Autumn sun slants through the trees and streams in through windows in this southern half of the world, it reminds us of the cycles of harvest, rest, renewal and growth, and the beneficent forces that initiate them. We remember the cyclic nature of Life as it moves through everything from individual to universal. Our whole world is currently …

We seem to be hearing more often these days such phrases as “record-breaking”, “unprecedented”, “within living memory”, “within recorded history”. So frequently are they being used that they have become a familiar part of this current moment in our human story. Fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, pandemics and plagues are more numerous, more devastating and beyond the previous patterns of …

As we strive to maintain accustomed patterns of daily living with the pandemic challenging them at every turn, it is easy to lose sight of truth in the crosscurrents between a long-established worldview and one that is yet to fully emerge. We seem to be confronted with a confusing cloud of conjectures, assumptions and opinions that come in a constant …

As we followed the election process in the USA, progressing through an uncertain interim to the eventual inauguration of a new president, we watched a nation’s people meeting the challenges of these times. They are the same challenges which we are all facing, in various forms and at all levels, in these chaotic times of transition towards a new era …

Our dream experiences can often be coloured by what we last read or watched before sleeping. It seems that the subtle impulses reaching us in sleep are presented in terms of the symbols that hover in consciousness from our experience of the outer world. It is as though whatever we focus upon colours or tints the field of our awareness …