Inner Questioning

Living, as we do, in a time of unbelief, an ‘unbelievable time’, heresy is scarcely an issue. However, less than a dozen generations ago ‘witches’ were still being burnt for heresy, sometimes by the dozen, although frequently their crime was...

I sometimes wonder if I'll ever cease to be a prisoner of my past. Either the events which happened, dramas I made out of them, the belief in past itself, that it needs to be looked at, or even the conditioning which I choose to say arose in the...

Love is where you are not. It would bomb as a pick up line, but it’s a concept of love worth pondering. They are the words of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a spiritual teacher who travelled the world in the twentieth century extolling the merits of...

In April 2000, I travelled to London to participate in a compelling teaching seminar on Family Systems Therapy. It was led by the internationally acclaimed German psychotherapist and author Bert Hellinger. Somehow that experience has changed the way...

Alan Clements was the first American to pioneer the dharma from the Buddhist country of Burma, where he lived in a monastery during the 1970s and 80s, five years of which he spent as a monk. During this time he trained in Buddhist psychology and...

Byron Bay is such a spiritual supermarket, with all kinds of people offering truth as an experience, a commodity. “Come and sit in truth”, “Discover the truth of your being”, “Know the truth”, or “Learn how to live your truth”...

But that deep sense of belonging is often hijacked by political expediency or by crashing into one another. In the name of belonging there has been colonisation of peoples and the destruction of the environment....

I remember once in the ashram in Pune I saw the signs promoting the Unworthiness group that was about to happen. No way! I’m not gonna do that. God, it will be a room full of dorks, of people whose lives are just sooo hangdog!! While the group was...

Within ten minutes of meeting and greeting each other a group of women are likely to have discussed the new teacher at school, Jean’s haircut, the film they saw last night and Brenda’s latest treatment for breast...

Over the years I have heard and experienced so much around masks. It is even, in a way, old hat to even talk about masks, but their unconscious existence keeps popping up like that single...