The Ashram at the water’s edge

The Ashram at the water’s edge

Arriving in the middle of the night anywhere inevitably presents difficulties.  So when the 11 devotees from Australia and New Zealand knocked on the front gate of the Yogoda Satsanga Society Ashram in Dakshineswar, Kolkata at 12:10am, the security guards, although...
End to the search for perfection

End to the search for perfection

…..And there I was in a place on the earth that most people call heavenly; the northern west coast of Bali.  Here in a small resort in Amed with black sands at my feet and fishing vessels bouncing along the shore a the end of the day, I was replete.  Never far...
Heavenly Gate

Heavenly Gate

It was in a suburb of Ubud that I had the idea. It was a blue sky warm and humid day in Bali, and I had taken a cab to an suburb of Ubud to find Yayasson Bumi Sehat (Healthy Mother Earth Foundation) and its founder Robin Lim. Mahala, a young German woman who was a...