Shiva as Nataraja by Julian Millane. Shiva’s most comprehensive form is as Nataraja Lord of The Dance. Dancing is an ancient form of mysticism, a transformation, inducing trance, ecstasy and mergence with the divine...
Formerly known as Sue Pollock from Ballina Naturopthics, Sue wrote a monthly naturopathic columm for the now defunct Here & Now which was widely apprecated in the Byron Bay area. In these columms she explained to the layman/woman the ins and outs of...
Fluctuating between musings on the sexuality of wildlife, the despair of the environmentalist who understands the ecological imperative of change that is not happening fast enough, the diarist detailing her first coherent steps as a writer plus lots...
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...
Life is too short to drink bad coffee, is the slogan on the purple Zentfeld umbrellas. The same principle applies to books. Life is short so read good books — there are so many....
Brandon Bays: I had been in the alternative field for about 15 years and had been trained and thought I’d experienced just about everything. I was a vegetarian, living by the sea, breathing fresh sea air, and travelling with Tony Robbins, giving...
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....
My car is sending me messages, or it was until it died. In my haste to ‘do’ I seriously neglected my mode of transport. I drove to meetings, appointments and other ‘important’ places and failed to put oil and water into the little engine of...