When I’m in the smallest room of a house, perched on a ladder and prying off some loose plaster, I have to remind myself why I’m doing all this. It takes a bit of a leap of the imagination, but in the grand scheme of things, I am working for the flourishing of all beings. Read More …

Something major has shifted. Suddenly, the thick defences I built long ago have changed fundamentally. I now no longer see them as walls, but as a living, breathing, flowering and flourishing hedge. It feels like coming alive. For ages I have dreamed of a life of connection with the spirits who share my life. And Read More …

In my attempt to wake up and become more aware of my life as it happens, of the sacred Here and Now, I have come up against an old limitation. My guiding spirits showed it to me as a castle with thick defensive walls, its portcullis closed and too heavy for me to raise on Read More …

I really don’t know how to do it. How to pay attention to life as it happens. How to find the sacred in the everyday and acknowledge it in the moment. I try and then I forget to try. Because I am seriously clueless, I consulted my tarot cards. I asked how I can train Read More …

Questing for signs of the sacred in the everyday, I find myself in the present moment. Beyond techniques of the sacred, like meditation and shamanic journeys, the here and now is the only portal to the awareness of Spirit that I have found. So the sacred here and now is where I need to take Read More …

For so long, I have been dreaming about a particular way of living. I have courted it and longed for it and prepared myself for it. And now finally I realise that I could die of old age doing that. What I really need is to focus my efforts and create that life. I am Read More …