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I often start my story with the description of a strong psychic experience during a Silva Method training that
turned my worldview inside out.
But in the background was my upbringing and education. I had studied Philosophy, Human Sciences and Psychology because I always wanted to understand what humans are, and why we act as we do. That question is still there at the core, though the answers are quite different than any I imagined as a student.
My book “What Makes You YOU?” offers a collection of answers, but along the way I had discovered that the nature of reality itself was not what I had been taught. The psychic experience demolished that model, and I had to explain to myself how the universe REALLY works. That explanation created my earlier book
“The Science of Possibility”, but getting there took 30 years.
Along the way, there has been a life to live. I was on the Silva training looking for ways to cope with a toxic marriage that a person with any self-awareness or self-esteem would have avoided from, and I have one son and a stepson from that era. I was so impressed with the Silva training that I became a trainer, which validated that my experience was not unique, and that all of us can be intuitive.
During that period I continued to explore applications in the real world. I trained in Cindy Wigglesworth’s SQ21 spiritual intelligence system and was briefly her first European trainer.
It was also during that time that Juliana fell in love with Yvonne and we dissolved our marriage. In the period after that I met Sophia. Our ten-year relationship ended with her death from cancer in 2024, so I am now single and living on my own, curious about what’s next.
Partly because of the SQ work I became interested in spirituality in the workplace and then in Conscious Capitalism, becoming a founder Director of the UK chapter for that organisation for a few years. Later I became a Director of the collaborative consultancy Future Considerations Ltd., and I still do some of my organisational work through them. The threads of money, spirituality, ethics, development, psychology and living systems in organisations continued to weave together, and they still do.
I am not always “working”, though I know less and less where the boundary is between life and work, because everything is nourishment to my omnivorous curiosity and desire for experience. Everything is connected and I love how everything overflows into everything else.
It is well-known that many shamanistic cultures experience direct connections with the spirits of plants and animals. Assuming that you don’t regard that as illusion or projection, you might ask - what is that for us and for today’s world?
There are “modern shamans” – people who work with that realm of connection. In fact there are many – horse whisperers, plant spirit medicine practitioners for example. There are well-known examples of people who garden in collaboration with nature, and books such as Dorothy Maclean’s “To hear the Angels Sing”, which describes how enormous vegetables were produced in the seemingly barren soils of Findhorn. Machaelle Small Wright has given in-depth accounts of how she created the Perelandra garden.
There are also stories of animals – particularly horses - being used in healing. There is a great story of one such in my Substack “A tale of a psychic horse”. I also talk about nature spirits in the “What’s Nature to you” chapter of “What makes you YOU” and the chapter on shamanism in “The Science of Possibility”.
It is an inevitable outcome of the “information field” as a central theoretical theme in both books, that our ability to connect with what animates other parts of the living world will reveal itself in many ways.”
Read this substack article: The Tale of the Psycic Horse