By Robert Forman

This is an excerpt from his book, but is stand-alone – in that you won’t feel dumped off at the wrong spot when you finish reading the excerpt. Interestingly, Robert amusingly and insightfully queries the need for a spiritual guru to be alone: ‘You never see “Buddha and wife”.’ Excellent reading. And, as Walt Disney said: ‘You have to entertain to educate because the other way around doesn't work’.

By Patricia Isley

Spiritual knowledge is readily accessible to each of us. We can Google it, read a self-help book, attend a seminar or meditate for clarity. But what if life is not meant to be tamed? The Unknowable is a paradox – a door without a key, an answer before there is even a question. It waits to support us in our journey toward a fulfilled life.

By Joe Dispenza

Until a few decades ago, science had led us to believe that we were doomed by genetics, hobbled by conditioning, and should resign ourselves to the proverbial thinking about old dogs not being able to learn new tricks. However, what I’ve discovered in studying the brain and its effects on behaviour for the last 20 years has made me enormously hopeful about human beings and our ability to change.

By Cecilia Macaulay

Stare deeply into beauty, and you will see it exists to enliven and protect. It loves to be copied, to get into the patterns of how you live your life. I want permaculture to spread to the mainstream; enriching others’ lives like it enriches mine. If you design beauty into your garden, people won’t resist; they will want one too.

By Susie Itzstein

The world and your relationships reflect what is going on inside you. A clue is to get curious about how whatever is happening to you externally, demonstrates what you are doing to yourself internally. And, our relationships are where we are offered both our greatest challenges as well as they are the most powerful area for emotional and spiritual growth.

By Juliet Martine

Once I started internet dating, I discovered something over time. The more I updated my profile, the more I discovered about myself. Those spiritual aspects of self I’d been hiding and protecting for the past ten years. I didn’t care who did or didn’t read it, or what they thought about what they read.

By Rand Leeb-du Toit

How do you break out of the all-consuming cycle of striving for more and more power?

Learn the secret to true, non-transient power and where to find it.

The joy you will find here is off the charts.

By Bruce Lipton

We're truly living in exciting times. The challenges and crises facing the world today are portents of imminent change in civilisation. We're on the threshold of an incredible global evolutionary shift.

By Robert Forman

I want to share with you something I’m actually going through these days. I don’t have answers, but I’m discovering something, and it’s important I think.

[I must agree – this short and sweet article just might be the most important one in this selection. Ed.]

By Satish Kumar

This article is based on the author’s TED talk and introduces the concept of a trinity that captures the essence of an eco-philosophy that cares about all life, instead of the human-centred world views of previous concepts like liberté, égalité, fraternité or even body, mind, spirit.

By Steve Ray

The peace process – what we have seen, heard and witnessed for so long – is not working. The best intentions go off the rails almost every time… eventually. The peace process ‘breaks down’… cease-fires end, more death ensues until the emergence of another shaky truce. And on it goes.

By Diane McCann

Men! What is a man? We live in confusing times. Men are bombarded from every corner with contradictory signals from wives, women friends, mothers, fathers and peers. “Be strong but don’t be macho” says one voice, “Be sensitive but don’t be wimp”, another.

By A.C. Ping

From a shamanic perspective we could consider the concept of intergenerational wounds. If your mum or dad had drama syndrome and plodded through life telling an ‘Oh poor me’ story then the behavioural patterns they pass on to you – and the energetic wound – is along the lines of, “Life sucks and when it does that’s just more evidence to prove that it does and hence more reason to find good ways of escaping”. Don’t bother trying to cope; just find a way to escape.

By Julian Noel

For years I considered myself crap at ‘manifesting’. Nothing I ever visualised, hoped or wished for ever came to fruition. I created dream boards, wish lists, set goals, cut out pictures of my perfect car, partner, money – pasted them on my bathroom mirror … but when I looked out my window in the morning the bright red, shiny Porsche with attached super yacht was not parked in my driveway.

[BTW, Julian mentions his beloved land, his birthplace. He has since returned to live in New Zealand. Ed.]

By William Whitecloud

“Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV” — John Lennon

John Lennon sure was ahead of his time. Most of us didn’t know it back in the sixties, but religion and sex and TV are drug pushers. So are credit cards and Facebook and luxury brand names. In fact, it turns out that our minds are one giant pharmaceutical factory with uppers and downers on tap. And things like religion and sex and TV (and credit cards and Facebook and luxury brand names) are our suppliers.

By Steve Denham

Amidst the technology-driven acceleration of life in this second decade of the 21st Century, most of us need the dexterity of a multiple-armed Hindu deity just to get through the day. As multi-tasking juggernauts, we Google, email, text, blog, speak, code, read, listen, tweet and update our social media pages; all at the same time, even on the one device, regardless of time or place. It’s like Parkinson’s Law on steroids.

By Larissa Wright

As you can see from the title, this one is a later addition, but by golly, you’ll enjoy Larissa’s writing style – it rollicks along – and IMO her tips for post-pandemic life are vital to anyone’s life, pandemic or not – so simple and yet so profound! During and just after the pandemic I think we all got so weary of words of wisdom.

But this one stands out as something very different and very useful.

By Jinen Jason Shulman

This article is profound. You might call it a heavy read, but before you get to the end, Shulman, who is well versed in spiritual paths, being both a Kabbalist and a Buddhist, has explained why we need to accept our egos, and that we cannot evolve unless we do.

See if you agree.

If so, your life could change right here and now.

If not, it’s been a good exercise to work your grey matter! :) Ed.

By Chip Richards

I have always been fascinated with the idea that miracles are meant to be a normal part of our daily life and who we really are.

Recently, I was plunged into an experience that called for the living validation of this theory.

By Gregg Braden

Who are we? How differently would we live our lives knowing that we’re more than the product of random evolution? …The way we answer the words ‘Who are we?’ penetrates to the essence of each moment in every day of life.

By Julie Ann Cairns

Are you being ‘guided to walk away’ because something doesn’t feel right, or are you avoiding an important spiritual message from above? Sometimes it’s important to look within and truly, humbly ask when your impulses tell you that something is not in ‘flow’.

By A.C. Ping

This article is worth reading – and reading again – or at least it was for this little realist!

Alistair asks, “Would you rather be a depressed realist or a delusional optimist?”, and I started out by being annoyed at his answer. But both Alistair and Lewis Carroll pointed out my erroneous thinking.

By Jost Sauer

Understanding our chi and our primary nature is important for health and happiness because, despite the availability of vast amounts of advice about never giving up on your dreams, if you’re off your primary nature path, it won’t happen or, if it does, it won’t be paired with health or happiness.

By Casey Conroy

For years this has bothered me…

It’s a female sexuality course, a yoga training, or a detox program that ‘teaches you how to be female’ –

the ‘right’ kind of female: 

sexy, slim, successful – and let’s not forget the one feature that makes it all cool – spiritual.