ABOUT ME

ABOUT ME

I write books, create digital art and music and do many other things but I don't really define myself by what I do. I am just me... all the time.

I have always lived very closely with nature but I have a background in high tech. Like nearly everything about me nothing really makes sense and is  mostly contradictory. For example, I am extremely dyslexic but am a writer. I live in an isolated place, in a very isolated country but consider myself a global thinker. Of course the last statement is a matter of opinion but you might be surprised how well distance gives perspective.

I was brought up in a very rural area in south east England but worked all over the UK as a cartographer. I have also worked with touring musicians and in the theatre. I co-founded an Irish record company! My mother was from the west coast of Ireland but that is only a coincidence. We had recording and multi-media studios in London but I lived and worked in rural Devon most of the time.

I love the countryside but I did spend a year living in central London to see what living in a big city was like. Perhaps I needed to prove to myself that I could. I probably won't do it again. I have been both very rich and also very poor. I can say with some authority that being poor is much more fun but neither state is paticularly necessary or desirable.

I have travelled on four continents and enjoy moving around. I particularly like Africa and the African peoples. They are genuine and happy even in the poorest circumstances. We could learn a great deal from their simple love of life.

Little Bell Rock Sedona

Before moving to New Zealand I spent six months in North America in Toronto, California and Arizona. I had the idea of perhaps settling in the USA. I had a one year visa, that everyone told me I would never get and could have easily stayed on longer but I cut my visit short. I am a sun lover but found the US and California in particular was really not for me. I just don't fit into a culture which is focused on commerce.

I was quite wealthy at that time but  confused my American friends. I got into trouble all the time. I speak my truth and do so without flattery or compromise. I was extremely politically incorrect particularly for Californians. Don't get me wrong I don't dislike American's, I just don't want to live there.

Filming in the bush

New Zealand is much more accepting of my particular truth. Lifestyle is more important than status and society is not stratified. The culture is very honest and new Zealand actually has a nicer climate. It's never too hot and dry but is equable and sunny most of the year. There is no need for air conditioning and central heating is almost unheard of. A fire suffices for the brief winter months and unless it is raining we can eat outside even in the middle of winter

Mind you Kiwis are a very hardy people and probably don't notice the cold. I have seen children in shorts and T shirts skating on icy puddles in their bare feet. Admittedly the sun was shining strongly.

Kiwis are pretty fearless and live a long time probably because they are easy about everything. You can walk into a restaurant or any other public places in bare feet without anyone taking any notice. That suites me because I have never got on well with shoes. 

Dragonfly microlight used for ariel filming

I live in an isolated area of the south island in a place called Golden Bay. It is a small community of about 4000 people. They are spread out over quite a large area. Golden Bay contains two of New Zealand's national parks. It is surrounded by high mountains and the only way in by land is over a pass that rises to nearly 3,000 ft. There are 350 or more sharp bends on the road and that tends to discourage casual visitors. Even hardened travellers can get car sick. We occasionally get cut off in bad weather but that is half the fun.

I love it. It's peaceful and wild and there is an eclectic mix of peoples from all over the world. Nearly every viewpoint and lifestyle is represented but everyone gets on rather well. Like all rural communities everyone knows everyone else's business but that also means that help is there when it is required.

The view from my studio

I have a broad spiritual background and have been a meditator for nearly forty years. I learned Transcendental Meditation just after my twenty third birthday. I was actively involved with that group for over twenty years. I left because I felt that I had gone as far as I could with them. I followed Ravi Shankar's Art of Living for fourteen years but that didn't satisfy me either. Gurus are very good for beginners who are looking for their spiritual path but eventually you have to take responsibility for your Self.

I have had my share of odd experiences. I worked on and off with someone who came from an alternate reality. He sometimes disappeared for years. I have met all sorts of shaman and wise people, some corporal, some not. One of my friends is a galactic ambassador another spends time in Inner Earth.

I have interacted with nature spirits, fairies and dragons. They are as real as you and me. My awareness has travelled into space and seen the fleets of ships that surround our Earth. I have seen angels and been guided by Ascended Masters. My all time favourite are the Elohim. I walked fairly closely with them for about eight years.

I have had a role to play in cleaning up and preventing damage both for us, the people and for Mother Earth, the amazing planet we live on. I have spoken directly with her many times. She has manifest herself in front of me twice. She communicates telepathically with thought forms containing feelings and emotions as well as sights and sounds. They can't be misinterpreted. She has shown me visions in answer to my questions. Once she took me into outer space. I feel totally comfortable and at home with her. She is a truly marvellous Being.

If you have these type of experiences you tend to get another sort too. Perhaps they balance each other out. I tend to jump into trouble without thinking of the consequences. I have been attacked by dark magicians and psychics, malicious spirits both dead and alive and by all sorts of beings from the darker side of life and some who inhabit other dimensions. They definitely haven't liked most of the things I have done. I am still here and more or less in one piece although I sometimes limp a bit. I did die once but I came back, it isn't that big a deal.

You can probably tell I have had an extremely wild ride, so far anyway, but it may get even wilder soon. Big things are changing. We all need to find our own 'way', which is what I am doing now. We each of us create our own life and I take full responsibility for mine.