Welcome to The Spiritual Arts Foundation

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...

My name is Bob Hillary, and I make music that is earthy, spiritual, rootsy - and from my heart. I believe the world is now, more than ever, in need of authentic HUMAN spiritually conscious music -  to help ease the challenges & difficulty of these times we live in. I make music because I see the world is in need of it. I see - and feel - music to essentially be LOVE. And...

I sit down to talk with Lucina S. Della Rocca, an artist and also my mother. As a child, I remember exploring her studio, smoothing a tentative finger over hardening oil paints on the palette. Lucina gained her art degree from the Southern College of Art Portsmouth and Southsea, then continued her training in sculpture at the Stroud School of Art, and later at the Royal College of Art under the invitation of John Skeaping....

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...

Empty House is the moniker for multi-instrumentalist Fred Laird. A name conjured up to reflect the state of (no) mind called Mushin (Japanese) or Wuxin (Chinese). No-mind is a state of awareness practised by Zen and Taosist monks as well as martial artists and is achieved when a person's mind is free from thoughts of anger, fear, or ego. This concept of no-mind is the aim of Laird to create ambient works devoid of any...

Valerie Georgeson was a very successful writer and actress, always interested in religion and spirituality. She was on the original writing team of EastEnders and appeared in Coronation Street and other drama series before writing adult novels (The Shadow of the Elephant quartet) and well-loved childrens' TV (Jonny Briggs, Simon & the Witch, Animals of Farthing Wood). But her spiritual journey was cut short after she unwittingly fell under the influence of a group whose...

I suppose the God Squad started it when they came calling at university and the atheist me saying that it wasn’t about being ‘persuaded’ or ‘reasoned with’, it was simply that they saw one side of the coin and I saw the other… until the coin was tossed and flipped and there was no point in arguing. Yet my curiosity was awakened and it kept me open and enquiring. In my childhood, Christianity had seemed...

Writing Reiki’s Highest Potential took me on a journey which guided me to explore and establish my foundation with my spiritual beliefs. It took me on a journey where I visited my past and saw my inspirations, my trauma, and the evolution into the woman I am now. The process of remembering and writing gave me an insight, a different perspective on me and my spiritual growth through the five decades I’ve been here in...

Carys is an autistic singer songwriter based in Suffolk with an enthusiastic and evocative stage presence displaying a natural charm that has won her many admirers, not only within the folk scene, but also far beyond it. She knew from the age of sixteen that she was going to sing professionally.  Her musical partnership with UK synth veteran David Wright and the avant-garde rock band Code Indigo have won many plaudits from fans and media...

The plants wanted me to write this book. It is becoming recognised that plants are so much more than green living structures that provide oxygen, food and chemicals for future medicines. They are beings of power with a history of their own, with folklore and stories to tell. They communicate with one another and with us, if we can hear them, and they have friends that they like to live close to. I have often...