Literature

I’ve always loved writing. During my early school days I developed a love for English literature because of a kindly teacher and every lesson was an adventure I looked forward to. I wrote a few lyrics for friends when I was an Art student, mostly because I was able to manufacture the most absurd phrases on the spot. This lured me into thinking that maybe I might become a songwriter one day, and after the...

I never saw myself as an author. Why would I? I struggled at school and only got my English GCSE at night school later. My grammar and spelling leave a lot to be desired, yet here I am, published. The change happened when my Mum died. She’d told me she was writing a book about her life experiences, and that turned on a switch in my brain that started me writing too. Now I write...

From a young age I was very interested in spirituality. The first thing that started my spiritual journey, was collecting crystals as I was captured by their beautiful colours, shapes and patterns they had. At the time I didn't know the meanings or healing properties of crystals, but I knew that they helped me feel calm and at ease.  After a while I started to research and read lots of books about crystals. I was...

“You do what?” is usually the response I get when someone asks what I do. When friends ask my family what I do, it ranges from business consultant to teacher. No one seems to know exactly. I guess it fits well with the twenty-two-hour window of possibility as to the time I was born. My Mum has one version, my Dad another, and my Grandmother a different one too. I was born a mystery so...

From just about as far back as I can remember my life has been marked by an interminable series of esoteric experiences - a kind of battle on the spiritual plane running in the background of my personal software programme  - informing and influencing events in the tangible. I soon stopped sharing with family what appeared normal to me, as my stories would inevitably be met with rolled eyes and enquiries of ‘more tea?’ As...

As I sit here writing this article, I wonder if the stars themselves guided me to do so. The calling to write has always felt like an echo through time—I can’t recall when I first heard it. It feels like it’s always been there. I entered my first poetry competition when I was in the infants and later took part in my primary school’s Inter-House poetry writing competition in Year 5. My school had Houses,...

Rev. Clare Hinsley earned her Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. specialising in Metaphysical Counselling, from the University of Sedona. She offers Consultations, Oracle Readings, runs Higher-Self Groups as well as creating Art and Orgone Healing Devices. Living the benefits of a Metaphysical existence, Rev. Clare’s personal journey soon became Divinely guided. It was quickly realised how individuals, when living in lower vibrations, find it a challenge to tap into Divine energies. A low vibrational existence is...

Karen L French is a best selling author on sacred geometry, with widespread acclaim for popularising complex concepts and themes. An artist and game designer as well as an author, she utilises her knowledge in her own transformative artworks and designs. Through her books, art, games and talks, French enjoys sharing the inherent possibilities of numbers, shapes and colours to effect very personal changes in spirituality and self-development practices. She has a Joint Honours degree...

All human beings contain an inner scientist and an inner artist, in varying degrees and forms. The scientist in us seeks evidence, hard facts and rational frameworks. The artist in us seeks nonverbal means of expression and connections with aesthetics and sublimity. My life has involved an ongoing attempt to find a balance of these, and to use them together to inform my spiritual development. I would argue there is typically more balance between these...

I was born during the war and very early in my life had a sense of the Divine watching over me. My parents’ garden and early life in the New Forest fostered my relationship with the natural world and I fell in love with its sounds and scents. I had visionary experiences and tended an altar next to my bed. I created small songs in my playing which was largely on my own. When I...

I am an Indian born New Zealand citizen who presents myself as an actor, author of ‘Seeking the Spirit Within’ and ’29 Seasons’. I came to New Zealand when I were 18 to pursue a BSc in Physics from the University of Auckland. In 2018, I proudly received the ‘Award of Distinction’ at the Plain English Awards in Wellington, New Zealand and the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards in the same year.  I have also featured...

Founder Sarida Brown recalls the beginnings of Caduceus and, together with current editor Simon Best, remembers some special issues. As I began to recall the early days, the reality of ‘Caduceus Journal’ flooded into my awareness as constellations of remarkable contributors, advisers and designers flowed through my heart’s memory. Initiators, explorers, teachers and communicators of transformation in consciousness, healing, science, ecology, arts – all touched by the yearning to resolve apparent paradoxes into deeper/higher knowledge...