I passionately love spirit, and Earth! Earth is our home, our Mother, and the very substance of our beings. She also holds the spirit that nourishes our evolution, and that guides us on our journey of consciousness through all levels of being. We are in a shared journey with her, learning how to be both spiritual and physical, being both human and of spirit’s grace. We are not just plonked here to do whatever the heck we feel like, even if it has a spiritual flavour … no, we are here to journey in consciousness with the Earth. To be part of the great change that she is going through, that we are all going through. This is urgent, and all souls who can need to respond. That is why I write, that is my particular gift and what I offer.
I have studied, trained and practiced in the divine wisdom since the 1970’s, feeling called to find the deeper meaning from an early age. I met my spiritual teacher Ananda in 1983, and from there began my journey of deepening and sharing spiritual reality and hope through writing, teaching, healing and leading spiritual retreats around the world. The spirituality I follow is in the lineage of HP Blavatsky and Alice Bailey. It is the wisdom of the Earth, theosophia – the mother wisdom. It is held in the very substance of Earth, imbuing all with its touch. No dogma, no doctrine, no fanaticism, just realistic insight, concepts and knowledge that anchors meaning in the events and challenges of life today, and that gives hope for how we can individually and collectively grow in consciousness and create the positive change so desperately needed in our world right now.
I am blessed to have developed clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairniscience (seeing, hearing and knowing from the inner levels) through many decades of training, and those skills are what I use to write. I work extremely hard to ditch the glamours and illusions that so easily cloud or skew human perception, and that might influence what I am given to write. I question, check and double check constantly as I write to make sure, as sure I can, that the energy in what I write is consistent with the energy I am given – but I am human and not infallible, so you must use your own discernment to choose how what I write sits with you.
I am also a permaculture nuffy, something I have studied and applied for many decades. I totally love how the integrated systems of nature work, and show us how we can learn to fit in with our living world and be harmless to our planet. I have a science degree from Melbourne Uni, my favourite subjects were physics, chemistry and zoology. My first full-time job was a zookeeper at Melbourne Zoo. I’ve worked in lots of places and in lots of ways, ending up in software education and then consulting in business process design and organisational alignment (absolute best project was working in AusAID for many years, really awesome mission-driven and world-changing people), although health challenges have prevented me from continuing this work since 2012.
On Earth today we have great challenges, and neither the greatest intellects nor the greatest spiritual leaders can create the change we need. We need a different level of conscious understanding to do this. We can’t get out of these problems using the same level of consciousness that has created them. Unillumined minds and extreme greed, combined with outdated and divisive spiritual approaches are destroying much. But there is a way forward: through the heart.
Heart Wisdom
Heart wisdom is an integrated spirituality that doesn’t divide like many religions do today. Heart wisdom is a practical spirituality that doesn’t take us up into the divine, but grounds us in the bosom of the Earth, yet with spiritual truth as our guide. Heart wisdom brings us into the true relationship we need with the Earth, so we stop destroying her for material gain. Heart wisdom gives us a way to be together across our personal differences, and apply to our combined efforts to create the change we need. Utopia? No, because there is always a positive way forward, it then just comes down to how quickly we catch on and support that change.
Here you will find the heart wisdom I have been given, offered to inspire and guide you to update your relationship with this beautiful, living Earth we have the privilege of calling home, and to find your pathway and practice to open your heart. I truly believe we can reach a tipping point of consciousness through our own efforts, that will enable us to reach the collective understanding that can and will create the shift we so urgently need at this pivotal time.
From my childhood
I have always known there was something deeper in nature and what was around me. As a young child I would sink into the embracing branches of a nearby jacaranda tree, or hold my breath and lie on the sand under the waves at the beach. I was always seeking insight from the vibrant life-force of nature I could see and feel around me, trying to deal with the challenges of my early life. I have always loved and intuitively known the Earth as a beautiful, living being.
My journey was deeply nourished and inspired by my spiritual teacher Ananda, who taught a new heart-centred approach to esoteric knowledge, and how to apply it in a life of practical service of Earth healing and personal transformation. She was my dearest friend and I was privileged to work closely with her for 20 years until her passing in 2002. She has remained my deep inner heart teacher, and continually inspires my work and my hopes. She gave me the spiritual name Surya, which brings her love around me.
How I write
I have been writing since the early 2000’s. The way I write has evolved over these years, but always involves my deep inner attunement to the great wealth of wisdom in the inner worlds, and with the great and wise hearts who guide and inspire conscious evolution from there. I tune in deeply through my heart and write what I can access through my consciousness. Sometimes it comes as an ethereal concept I explore as I write, often I receive a direct dictation, lately it comes more as an immersion in a knowing that I can access in my consciousness. Much of it is new to me! I ask questions and work hard to make it no-nonsense and practical, as much as I can. It’s really important that spirituality of the heart can reach everyone. Our global transition will not be a product of the illuminated few, but of the heart-centred many that care and act to create a better world for all. I write on a tablet, and then type it up from there.
I am forever grateful to my beloved husband Brenton and my gorgeous son Tom, whose love and support for this work I feel deeply. Brenton works tirelessly to edit my writing, helping with grammar (not my strong point, and harder still when writing at pace to keep up with a verbal stream). Sometimes you will read ‘I’ and ‘we’ in my writings, which does not refer to me, but to the inner being or beings with whom I am in contact in my writing process. I continually check my attunement while writing, and do my best to accurately represent what I am given. That said, every spiritual teaching is also contextual, given to meet the needs of the time and the people it is offered to. Ultimately, you have to be the judge of what resonates in truth for you, and what nourishes your journey.
The teachings given …
The teachings on this website are written as short notes, because that’s how they are given to me, in part because my brain is usually at meltdown point after a few hours of writing. It is also because they are given to stimulate your consciousness, not to fill your mind with reams of knowledge, although there is plenty of knowledge to be found if you seek that. There is no intention from where I access this wisdom to write a long treatise, as there is already plenty of knowledge written in this world. It is what we do with the knowledge that matters now: how we let it stir our consciousness, and awaken us to purpose, soul and our service on this living Earth.
The notes are presented by date, but you can read any note, in any order, according to what your intuition guides. There is no beginning-to-end in the heart, nor in this material. Here is offered a framework for understanding our conscious journey and responsibilities in this world, including Earth’s evolution as a living spiritual system, and new ways of understanding soul, heart and our human experience. Throughout, there are many touch points to help you hear and respond to the call of your own heart, and be nourished by Earth’s love, which you can also explore using the free audio practices available to download.
Hope!
My greatest hope is that these notes will give you hope. Not the emotional hope of wishful thinking, but the undimmable light of hope born in the conscious understanding of life, purpose and community on this beautiful planet. The more we love Earth and this shared journey, the more our hearts shine and hasten our collective awakening and healing. This is how we create a world of love, respect and peace for all.
My health journey
I have had a long journey through chronic health challenges, created by complex ptsd, particularly difficult in the last 25 years. I will write about it one day, as it has been a fascinating spiritual journey, even if monstrously difficult too. In the last 20 years deep, chronic fatigue has been my constant companion, together with major gut and breathing issues, 24/7 headaches and frequent migraines, histamine and MTHFR challenges, and sleepless nights aplenty. All basically undiagnosable and non-responsive to everything I tried, medically and through the many alternative healing approaches I have accessed. All typical for someone with CPTSD.
Fortunately I reached a turning point in 2025 after much spiritual, physiological and somatic psychological work, and I was graced to find some gifted healing practitioners who could actually make a difference. Definitely the grace of karma, once I had learned and cleared enough! I have had better health since then, but none-the-less, I understand that this long journey has also been a gift in its way. My childhood traumas pushed me out of my body, and strengthened my capacity for deep inner contact; but then my deep inner truth pushed me to fight my way back into my body through all my traumatic layers, for my deepest drive is to be fully here and to make a difference in this world. That is why we incarnate, after all.
This deep journey has given me a pathway of transformation and physical renewal I would not have believed possible, nor found, without these challenges. It has deepened and grounded my spiritual knowing into my physical self in ways I had been hoping to find for nearly 40 years, and helped me clear (and still clearing) many long lasting past-life patterns as well as inherited traumas. However, it does mean that sometimes I have to stop writing and delve deeply into my continuing healing journey, so you will see pauses in my writing for that reason – but I am still here and love to hear from fellow travellers!
I have a little garden that is nourishing for me, where I grow colourful flowers and unusual food plants, and seek to create a rich habitat for other creatures. I love it when Lizzie, our resident blue-tongue lizard, comes out to sit in the sun. I also crochet and knit, always with lots of colours, to make a new jumper, a bed for our cat Portia, a shopping bag or anything else I can invent that is useful. Being usefully creative is really nourishing for me. I also draw all the images I use on my posts.
I hope you will stop by and say hi, and if you want to be sure to hear about new teachings or podcasts, please subscribe and I’ll keep in touch!
With love and hope,
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