Musings About

Not just to the people I find interesting and passionate about ‘their thing’, or people with a Scottish accent who can say anything and my attention will remain focused but really listening to people’s...

Michael Light was for years involved with the Byron Bay local community, and has seen himself as a medium through whom healing can happen. He's worked in the prison system, as a social worker on the streets, in schools where he teaches how to play...

Probably more than any other place on earth, at least that I know of, Byron Bay is a place where people come to live out their dreams. What these dreams are will be unique to each person. Some have got dreams of enlightenment, of creating a...

It’s funny the thoughts you have when you stop thinking. After a hectic few months of being out there, organising and making decisions, I decided to take some time out. A friend was going on holiday and offered her home at the Bodhi Farm community...

In Byron Bay, wherever there are seekers, what is heard most about is the desire for enlightenment, to be free. Free of what is rarely articulated. What do I want to be free of? The desire for a new car? For a new and cuter girlfriend? For a new...

One of the things which makes humans unique, is not just our ability to be alone, but to be able to realise that aloneness is actually our very nature, even as we are with others, whether it be as lovers, as...

Whenever I hear the word “god’, I get a sudden rush to go and let go of something. I guess that comes back to my Catholic upbringing, where god was this omnipotent being that knew whatever you did, or even thought anything that you weren‘t...

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,...

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...