I like Dr Page, Martha Beck, Lilou Mace, Barbara Hubbard, Laura Bushnell and of course Gill Edwards. Thy are all “bringers” of hope. I also like Aunty Mahealani and Kahu S. Ka’imiloa.

According to Gill Edwards : “The wisdom of the ancients …sees life from a much larger perspective. It has access to the unseen realities. It knows that life is a chosen adventure in consciousness. We are conscious beings who have freely chosen to become physical. (Consciousness did not emerge from matter; matter emerged from consciousness!).

“We are not victims. We were not sent here – much less banished here. The earth is not a penal colony for wayward souls who (if we’re very, very good and stoically endure a great  deal of suffering) might be allowed to come home eventually.”

To me this sounds like a repudiation of a formula pryer which my cousin refused to recite because she could not stomach “the valley of tears” phrase in that prayer.

Gill Edwards continues: “For thousands of years, mystics have insisted that we are all ONE – that we are all sparks of a creative Source, and our separateness is an illusion.”

“In the greater reality, all probable pasts, and probable futures co-exist, all causes and effects co-exist – evrything that ever was and ever will be simply “is”. We are multidimensional beings .”

Ms Edwards ventures to apply the Oneness belief: …”we can communicate with anything and anyone at will – from a tree to a typewriter, from a great grandmother in Spirit to a far-flung friend. since all consciousness is interconnected, we can send or receive messages, give or receive healing, or ask information – all at a distance. It just requires a little practice, and trust.”

“Another immensely practical consequence of our Oneness is that, since everything is interconnected, nothing happens by chance. Our thoughts and beliefs create our reality. Our thoughts are energy and that energy attracts people, events and opportunities which match that energy which resonate with it. Every thought is a prayer.”

“Our views of reality are forever changing, as we learn and grow – and thousands of people, including well-known scientists and philosophers, are now challenging common sense…”