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The following are simple, yet powerful practices that can give you new ways of looking at your life circumstances, and in that, create new possibilities for making choices that will bring you greater alignment with your personal integrity. These...

The Dreaming Festival, held at the Queensland Folk Federation’s permanent site about an hour northeast from Brisbane, is Australia’s international Indigenous festival. Held over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June each year, it is a...

Never before in history has there been such a demographic as single alone women in their 50s and 60s. This is a new phenomenom and one that Western society has no answers...

I had a few favourite eating places in Bali, where I felt most comfortable and liked the ambience, the staff, the food and the environment which separated them from lots of other...

Formerly editor of the now defunct Here & Nowmagazine in Byron Bay, as well as co-publisher of the also defunct interntionally aclaimed Kindredmagazine, Mark started the Byron Body & Soul Guidein...

It is quite an eyeopener in Bali to encounter the incredible memory and other indications of mental sharpness demonstrated constantly by the...

I would like to tell you a funny and true story, a story that at the time I didn’t find so funny, nor did I see the significance in the turn of events that made this story so profound, and yet so ordinary....

About 2000 years ago Jesus spent 40 days in the desert; remember the story? I want you to imagine that you are Jesus and you are in the desert. What are you doing in the desert? What you are doing is facing your own creation, facing what you are,...

In 2002 Mira (who had recently changed her name to Ganga) came to the Byron area where she is known as the long-time devotee and wife of H.W.L. Poonjaji, also known as Papaji. We talked about meditation and satsang in an interview attended by 10 or...

Goliath was a huge man. He was a giant who stood more than nine feet tall. He cursed at the Israelites and said bad things about their God. He asked one man amongst the Israelites to come out to fight for them. Everyone was afraid because he was...