Here’s an extract from my 2020 book, Bird of Paradise–Taming the Unconscious to Bring Your Dreams to Fruition. And if this entices you to keep turning the pages, you’ll find more details about this, my seventh book, here. Introduction: Garden of Dreams This book that you have before you is part whimsical memoir, part healing
My new book, Bird of Paradise, was destined, it seems, to be published during lockdown, perfect timing perhaps for a book about finding your way during times of uncertainty. In this episode I share a couple of stories related to these times and my book, then read an extract from ‘Bird of Paradise Taming the
A few weeks ago, I was listening to a podcast to get to know the host a little before being a guest on her show. I clicked on her most recent episode, listened to some of it while doing some exercise at home, then settled into a window seat to hear the rest of the
This little blackbird flew into our house on January 15 this year, and settled next to my nest of Orkney eggs, heralding both a synchronicity and a decision. Birds flying into our house are not a common occurrence. Thinking back over a lifetime I can only recall one other blackbird flying in, one dove walking
My book, The Dream Handbook, will be published by Hachette (Australia) on 30 January and by Piatkus (UK) on 22 February, so I’m getting into book launch frame of mind. If you already have my last book, Dream Alchemy, a much-loved classic first published in 2003, you’ll discover that The Dream Handbook is an updated
I woke up in the middle of the night remembering a discussion I had with Veronica, a school friend, on a bus trip sometime during my early teens. “Is time a straight line, an endless cycle of circles, or a spiral?” she asked, drawing invisible lines, circles, and spirals in the air with a sweep of
What’s your calling? When did you first realise it? Or are you still listening, or waiting for all your stars to align and open the way? Earlier this month I dreamed I was standing on a hilltop, looking down at a stunningly beautiful peninsula, all golden and glowing. Furthest away, at the tip, was the
The moment has come to step out on stage and perform in front of an audience but you haven’t prepared. Worse than this, you know zilch. It’s a common dream theme, and you’ve probably had a variation of it at some point in your life. What did you make of it? How did you relate
My guest, Karen, had a dream about discovering a hidden library filled with eclectic books and antiquities downstairs in her house. As she wondered who created it and why it wasn’t being used, she became lucid to her dream and lamented that the library – like all the extra rooms she has discovered over the
I’m delighted to announce that Hachette have just published my book, Dream Alchemy, in digital format, available as an instant download from: Amazon as a Kindle Book, iTunes as an iBook, and at GoogleBooks. Also available in paperback here. Enjoy and do please share! Thank you. PS 2018: Dream Alchemy was updated and retitled