Born in Vienna, Austria – (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937). Studied medicine, later became a disciple of Freud. In 1911 Adler diverged from Freud over the sexual impulse being all important in human behaviour. He saw people as goal oriented, with an urge toward personal growth and wholeness –... More

The hanger was immense. It was created within the rock of a mountain, and made Nefir feel as if he were outdoors under a stone-grey sky. He often visited the colossal space to experience the feeling of ancient times created by the old craft.... More

When Life was still making the original people who lived on the earth, it created a little Black Boy. He arose, still asleep, from the Great Waters, and was gently washed to shore by the waves.... More

Being well known to certain people in Amersham, it was not thought unusual when Peter took a coach ride to the Zoo in London. He was very good during the ride, and didn’t feel sick, or lean out of the window to shout rudely at dogs.... More

These are a series of story I wrote for a mother and child magazine. They centre around a character Peter, a hedgehog.... More

This is important! I must write it down while I can still remember. If I don’t, I may forget and lose it forever. I can hardly believe this! How is it possible that I could have lived most of my life without knowing who I am? It is so out of the ordinary that I am wondering if I am suffering s... More

I couldn’t take it. I just wept. I knew that’s what I had been doing for years. That’s what most of us are doing, only we can’t and won’t see it. But even though we hide from it, the pain of it is there like poison juice in our body. Now mine was being squeezed out and the words were l... More

The aim is to constantly consider what connection what you discover has with everyday life. This gradually filters out the amazing flights of fantasy we sometimes have about spiritual ideals, philosophy and hopes. The real bits of the jigsaw explain you not only to your own satisfaction, but are al... More

If you are struggling in the morass of your own mind and emotions, and can see no way out-pray and wait quietly, for in the one life, help is already trying to come in. ... More

Imagine you are going to communicate with a part of yourself that has an unlimited amount of information and influence to share with you. What this dimension of yourself gives you will be in direct response to what you ask. So the question you ask will be the factor shaping the response. Therefore ... More

A harsh climate: What was your childhood situation and environment? Napoleon said that as the twig is bent so the tree grows. That is obviously true of human life. We know it only too well now from studies of the childhood and home environment of psychopaths and abusers. Hitler's past abuse went bac... More

For many of us, our parents were raised and educated in a social situation that was deeply controlled by political or religious do's and don'ts, the domination by authority figures or the threat of unemployment. They may thus have raised us in the same way, a way helping us to deny any spark that wo... More

In these further spaces of awareness people have found access to the motivations, fears and responses that lie behind their waking success or failure. They have a gateway to the roots of creativity and innovation that can enrich their everyday life. The processes of the body, usually beyond control,... More

Virtually every society up to our present times has been built on a hierarchy. The upper levels of the hierarchy usually do everything in their power to maintain their advantage. To do so they live on the work and productivity of those in the lower levels of the hierarchy. In the U.S. and the UK... More

Rudolph Steiner, the great teacher of Anthroposophy said that the seven-year cycles continue throughout life, and are of the utmost importance to doctors, teachers, psychiatrists and the social sciences. Without some smattering of these changes it is difficult for anyone to understand the relationsh... More

It was the dead fish in a dream that led me to these feelings. I was reminded of all the sperm that comes away from a man during a lifetime. Then image after image of women flashed through my mind. Pictures of women in black brassieres and black corset straps. Women with fags in their mouth with unf... More