Literature

Since I was 13 or 14 years old, I've had a fascination with all things spiritual. When my friends were meeting after school to play football, you could often find me sitting in a park tapping into the consciousness of the world around me, talking to the trees, and appreciating the profound emptiness of all things. There was a level of aliveness about the world that it seemed to me at the time, only I...

Nowadays I see having been rejected at birth by my father on account of being the ‘wrong’ gender as the greatest gift I’ve received in my life. If that sounds strange, I’ll explain: had I had the idyllic childhood that my two young grandchildren in Devon are at present enjoying, I would certainly have become neither a writer nor a therapist and – apart from my wonderful family – these are the two things that...

Jules is “The Colour Counsellor” and passionate about getting everyone into their true colours to shine in their own unique and brilliant way.  She is considered one of the UK’s leading colour experts, Head of Colour at the London College of Style, and author of How NOT to Wear Black, The Essential Guide to Mindful Dressing and her recent Amazon bestseller “A Colourful Dose of Optimism”. She has appeared on TV; The Lorraine Kelly Breakfast...

Roger Straughan’s latest book, The Medium and the Minister: Who on Earth Knows about the Afterlife?  (6th Books, John Hunt Publishing, 2022), is his most recent foray into the area of psychical research, particularly afterlife research.  It has already attracted a lot of attention, being described by reviewers as unique, absorbing, balanced and lucid.  It explores, as no other book does, the tensions which have arisen from the conflicts between traditional religion, spiritualism and psychical...

When Delphi Ellis was a child growing up in an average, industrial town in the UK, she had no idea that her home life was far from ordinary.  Her name comes from the famous Oracle from Ancient Greece who, once upon a time, would provide insight and inspiration to all those who visited.  The black cat and statue of Aphrodite in her childhood home might have also been a clue that life behind closed doors...

Is it really possible that an issue holding you back in this life can be resolved by tracing the root cause back to a trauma in a past life? I believe so and countless clients over the past twenty-five years would agree. My own severe claustrophobia was resolved in just one regression session with a hypnotherapist. It was the emotional experience of that session, and its effectiveness, that made me decide to study past life...

William Wildblood was born in London and after several decades living in the West Country, India and France returned to the capital. He has been an antiques dealer, written for magazines and run guest houses but his main interest since his early 20s has been in spirituality and religion on which subject he has written several books, the first being Meeting the Masters and the most recent Earth is a School. He has a blog...

The renowned Professor Albert Einstein said that “every scientist becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a Spirit vastly superior to that of man - that spirit formed his idea of God”. So, who or what is God and where does he/she hang-out or where can I find him? My quest for such answers came in 1992 when I was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer and was facing my own mortality....

I have always loved words, whether spoken, written or sung and, when I’m not scribbling in a fancy notebook, I can be found daubing paint on a canvas, knitting colourful jumpers or doing puppetry on TikTok. My writing career actually began at the age of ten when I proudly won a school competition with a poem about woodlice. However, my parents had other ideas and insisted I should train for a ‘proper job’, so writing...

Anna Tizard’s literary fantasies are born of questions about the nature of mind, and the realms of thought, psyche and spirit. The surrealist word game of Exquisite Corpse is the perfect playground for her imagination, which she plays “live” on her podcast, Brainstoryum. The results have so far inspired two novellas and more than twenty short stories. Originally, Anna was influenced by literary writers such as Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Atwood; a Christian upbringing and...

In a positive sense I could define the spiritual as the Unseen Realm, or a place or state of Oneness where there are no boundaries or differentiation, just love, understanding and compassion. This also suggests the eternal nature of the soul, and from there, reincarnation, with there being no boundaries in time or space. My earliest spiritual experiences were in my childhood, both of which might be seen by some as just 'odd' rather than...

“There must be a trauma related incident from your past that has exacerbated this?” asked the therapist. I gripped each side of the armchair, feeling my nails start to bite into the soft fabric. “Well, there’s the attack by a stranger when I was 7, my dad being killed in a road accident at 9, being mentally and physically abused from 13 to 19, being medically retired from the police force and finally the road...