Outer Travels Inner Journeys

What Do Travel, Tragedy and Illness All Have In Common?

You’re surrounded by an angry pride of wild lions protecting their newly born cubs. It’s dark. You’re in an open game viewing vehicle. It has just broken down. There is no mobile phone coverage. Your flashlight is almost out of…

Going Hunting…

I’m hunting white lions. I want to capture one. After all they are the most rare and beautiful creatures on the planet. So rare they…

Forget doctors!

Why You Should Trust Mother Nature To Be Your Greatest Healer.

‘There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we…

Tribute to Cecil the Lion

‘I believe in God, only I spell it Nature,’ Frank Lloyd Wright

Can Spiritual Travel Make You Younger?

I was five months shy of my sixtieth birthday as I flew to…

Ayahuasca Retreat at Kapitari

‘I’m in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest in a big thatched hut with a revered shaman doing ancient rituals — wow, it’s mind-blowing.’ Mary Gamberg, one of our group.

It was one thing walking in to Kapitari, our home for a week in the Rainforest…

Pre-Psychedelia; Days 4–7 in Peru

Day 6 of the 23 day Peru Odyssey and the sixteen of us have packed so much in to this first week we…

My First Three Days in Peru

Arrived in Lima after the orange sun transformed to blood red and disappeared over the horizon behind bands of charcoal grey clouds. Then Lima airport in the dark and a taxi driver who didn’t feel like the safest bet on the road, but then again his gleaming white car had no…

Meeting the Mother of All Dragons

‘So you think you’re off to Peru for an exciting experience — well, we have news for you!’ the dragons have chorused. Their burning poison carried on spurting flames has singed my skin. For the last seven weeks they insistently demanded I listen to their litany of what…