Found: Here & Now magazine Byron Bay (45)

It is Anzac Day again, and as usual there is so much written in defence of it as well as questions raised about the point of celebrating a slaughter on a battlefield Australians had no business being on. There is something legitimate about Anzac...

Everything I need to know about life I can learn from Michael Leunig. I met the man on his recent visit to Byron Bay and his teapot philosophy made more sense than ever before. With confidence I can throw away those dusty self-help books propping up...

I was quite determined to go to the inaugural Dreaming festival held over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, 2005, run by the Queensland Folk Federation at the Woodford festival site. I brushed off the heavy rain falling in Mullumbimby over the two...

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...

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...

The truth excites me. Yet the more I thought and talked about it the more confused I became. I found that I knew nothing about truth. I could write pages on what truth...

Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”. “But I’m not good at letting go” I reply....

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...