Love Life and Destiny

They say that everyone has at least one book within them. At the end of July, I managed to finish and then self publish my first book Love, Life and Destiny on Amazon after a great effort to get the work completed. I imagine it was like the experience of giving birth for the very first time and I was surprised how genuinely painful it was! Originally, I had set down a series of notes on Facebook on the various episodes in my most recent past for my friends to read. The common element of the stories was the rather remarkable series of coincidences that my life was beginning to throw up. I am sure that many of us have these types of encounters but we merely shrug them off as things that come along once in a while, we only notice them as we are more open than usual to accepting the meaning behind them. This blog was started so long ago when I had a different plan for my life. The content has fluctuated according to my state of mind and my desire to write. Completely by chance I ...

My name is Christopher Luke and I am a Spiritual Nomad. These are the famous words that start any Alcoholics Anonymous session so I guess that I am confessing to an addiction. Spirituality, an addiction? Yes, for some it is. I have been quiet these last few days after a very active period when I was writing constantly and building my nascent web pages. Life Explorer on Facebook and the Intuitively web pages as I continue to build a web presence. I have an addiction to results and that is my problem. I mean did the Buddha set targets for himself when he went out into the world to teach people his understanding of life?Buddhism did not exist at that point as it was only through his inspiration that adepts and followers took his philosophy and started to spread the word as represented by his enlightenment. I have come to my current position in life through challenging the words 'Who Am I?'. I need to know wha...

In February 2008, I travelled to Mumbai to visit a friend. It was cool and very pleasant as I sat on the sea wall on Marine Boulevard looking out over the Arabian Sea. Next thing I knew was a young map seller sitting next to me. With his wild black hair, sparkling eyes and gentle manner, Raj had entered my world. He wanted me to buy a map for 500 rupees (about £8), not a great deal of money, a gr eat deal in India. He obviously felt that I was a good bet for a sale. We talked. He spoke about his life as a Rajput who had left home to find his fortune for he needed the money to marry his long time sweetheart. He showed me a picture of a ravishing beauty and immediately I could see why he yearned to put his world right. He spoke about the poor place that he lived in, and the crushing obstacles that he faced everyday to sell overpriced maps with so much going to his boss. I had no need of a map. I was travelling light but in my pocket was 10,000 rupees (about £160). I...

“What day is it?"

Have you had a chat with your Higher Self recently? Its always a good thing to do if you are finding Life challenging right now. After all, your Soul knows where it is going even if you do not! There are a number ways of 'chatting' ~ listening to your intuition more closely, meditating and see what comes, getting close to Nature and grounding. What is most essential is that 'You' have to be present which means being in the here and now and open to listening ....

Last night, Steve my friend who is very graciously giving me support and protection at this difficult time in my life, suggested that we watch a DVD as a way to relax. Last weekend, he had attended a pow wow of native American Indians at Bedford and had been inspired to play his Native American flutes and take a greater interest in their culture. He selected Grey Owl from his home library, a movie from 1999 that was directed by Richard Attenborough, the film director who has made a number of films that feature famous people from history. You may remember that he directed Gandhi which portrayed the struggle of that great man in his quest for Indian Independence. Grey Owl was the Native American name for Archibald Stansfield Belaney, a man who was born English in that most English of towns, Hastings. Hastings, where William The Conqueror defeated the Saxon king Harold and established the Norman dynasty which changed history and the future of what was then a series of kingdoms in...

Inspiration From Strange Places. Have you ever wondered when an answer to a problem in your life comes from an unexpected place? Where did that solution come from? Meeting a person, a long lost friend, following up a hunch, getting a 'strange' email that when followed up provides a solution …  Perhaps, it was merely an insight into what is required to resolve a difficulty or, maybe, you received the full blown solution, there and then. A miracle. Sitting here this morning looking to the heavens for divine inspiration, on this most glorious of summer mornings here in Cambridgeshire, I thought 'Lets play some music!' Reaching over for my iPod , I felt that perhaps, I should just put it onto random and see where it took me. After all, I have over 6,500 tracks on the device there must be some latitude for synchronicity to play. For those of you who have been following my story, I have been severely challenged in the last few years both spiritually and materially. I h...

The Road Back To Hope The coming of my 62 nd birthday in just over a months time coincides with a revelation. Increasingly over the last five years, the realisation has dawned on me that my life is not going to pan out quite in the way that I had imagined. This is an uncomfortable truth to confront. However, it is true and a revelation born out of a situation that I have been doing my very best to avoid. The result of my avoiding tactics is this – the writing of a book. Whenever I have tried to procrastinate, ignore, or even make excuses about the 'book', the 'inevitable' has happened to me. Something would occur or someone would mention that I should write a book. The result of that would to provoke varying emotions from outright disgust with myself to indignation that I was being intellectually lazy! The book is one project that I have found great difficulty with. The book is about the lessons that I have learned in my life and how these may help others. You see...

Taking Directions I am stubborn. I am also slow to change direction if I feel that I have the right answer. A numerology report showed me that I usually try to justify my current, usually uncomfortable life situation, so that I can get my prejudices to 'fit' the facts. I was in Delhi late in 2009 and I was beginning to wish that I was neither in Delhi or in India. I was finding the poverty, pollution and the general wear and tear of everyday life degrading to my spirit. I wanted a sunnier, more fun filled life somewhere else and Bangkok would do just fine. In the September, I had met a young lady, View, in Bangkok. My clairvoyant work had shown her coming into my life, introduced by someone else first. 'A lady who looked Chinese but was not' came through in the message and that was absolutely correct. Jenny was Thai but performed in cabaret lip syncing Chinese in Thai shows that travelled eastern Asia. Jenny was View's best friend! Bangkok would be the next stop ...

I have decided that it is time that I wrote up my personal journey. Even if it is only myself that reads it then I feel that committing these words to the ether will only have beneficial effects for those who I share these thoughts with. Today I am sitting in the library of the condo where I live in Bangkok. The last six months have been a roller coaster ride of emotions and events as my new life starts to take shape even though I am facing my 61st birthday, a time when many of my contemporaries will be contemplating retirement or even have joined God's Waiting Room. This is not to be my destiny. When I have remarked over the years that I will die with my boots on little did I know how true that would turn out to be! Anyway enough for now, I feel better that I have started to commit these words to the Universe as it allows the synchronicity of life to enter and align the energy of my life to my one true desire - to become a counsellor, teacher, and advisor.