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About

  I am an artist, writer, researcher, critical theorist and transpersonal psychotherapist. 

 We are all the children of the universe. We are all answerable to nature and human nature.  We are all important.  Every life has value and all people should be able to reach their full potential. Yet, not all people reach their full potential.  Although we are all conscious human beings we are also victims of the unconscious. I believe the conflicts we experience in the world today are a problem of consciousness and are driven by the unconscious.  We cannot solve the global problems without solving the individual human problems that relate to the unconscious material.  I am committed to the creation of a more harmonious world, which I believe will only be brought about by exploring the unconscious.  

A paradigm shift. 

  In order to solve the global probelms we need a paradigm shift in the mass consciousness.   I believe this is possible and I believe there are many others who feel the same and who are, in their own way, working towards such a paradigm consciousness shift.

 Baltasar Grecian was a worldly Jesuit priest [1601-1658] who wrote a seventeenth century oracle,  I have gained two important lessons from it. The first comes originally from Socrates: 

 ’Know thyself,  your character, intellect, judgement and emotions. You cannot master yourself if you do not understand yourself. There are mirrors for the face but the only mirror for the spirit is wise self-reflection’

The second is:  ‘feel with the few, speak with the many’. Rowing against the current makes it impossible to know the truth’.

In essence the writer is talking about mediation and conciliation but in a particular way.  Dissent is taken as insult because it condemns the judgement of others. Silence often conveys wisdom while the ‘other’ makes an overt fool of him or herself. Silence is a great gift.

  A little bit of personal history.

I was born in London three years after the Second World War ended.   When I was sixteen years old I became a peace activist and accompanied many millions of people on marches across England.  I also became an active socialist, a position I modified in the late 1980s due to the atrocities carried out by the communist/ fascist/socialist regimes and the appearance of the new religious/fundamentalist socialism.   I have been a member of the Labor Party, a member and candidate for the Australian Greens. Today, I adhere to certain forms of post-political anarchy.

Most of my youth has been spent travelling the world searching for utopia and the meaning of life.  It is now very clear to me that utopia lies within.  Happiness is a state of mind acquired by being mindful, being honest, being creative and being in harmony with all things natural.

 I have travelled the world as an artist writer and personal development facilitator.  I arrived in Australia in the 1970s and became a member of the radical feminist movement.  I joined the environment movement in 1974. I have been a member of human rights, civil liberties and environment groups ever since. I am now a member of the following groups:

Friends of the Earth.

Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Deakin University.

Victorian Family Therapists Association.

My Environment, Warburton.

I hold the following degrees: Doctor of Communication.  Masters in International and Community Development. Master in Psychoanalytic Studies.  B.A. Hons. [Literature, Comparative Studies and Womens Studies].

I currently live in the rolling hills of Regional Victoria, Australia where I write, paint and work in my psychotherapy practice.