One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power…If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn’t use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That’s why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived high possibilities.

Instead of relying on any particular group to authorise me or my exploration, it’s up to me to expand my mother tongue by engaging with my unconscious to work out for myself what my mythology is, what symbols matter and how I can put them together to feed my soul in an ongoing passionate and regenerative process.

However much visceral, imaginative or intellectual sense there is in someone else’s spiritual or religious tradition, trying to convert to or adopt a tradition that is not your own will not sort whatever drove you towards the alternative in the first place.

We are overcome with desire, struggling with the congenital all-embracing ache that lies at the centre of human experience, the ultimate force that drives everything else.

When one is ready to see the eternal flashing, as it were, through the latticework of time, one can experience mystery. This is especially so in art-work that carries mythological symbols that speak to us still.

Much of Jung’s criticism of both religious and medical therapy, therefore, was grounded in his conviction that the modern healing arts and the mainstream Western Christian tradition had severed themselves from the healing, that is whole-making, energies of the psyche.

Spirituality is about the experience, at the core of one’s being, of truth, power, and desire. It is the energy within persons that shape a person’s actions and ultimately a person’s life into a meaningful whole.

Art and music are the deepest expressions of our soul and the direct transmission of our universe. I think everyone is born an artist and art should be shared with all people on this planet.

New Zealand is a multi-cultural, multi-faith and broadly secular country in which spirituality has a place even though it is widely ignored or misunderstood.

There is an …. agonizing emptiness within our society that … reflects a desperate need for meaning, relevance, something deeper in life