Personal Development
Sect Involvement
1967 aged 12 years of age my mother gets me involved in the notorious Melbourne Australia sect called “The Family”
Fortunately, I was not one of the children adopted by the cult leader.
This introduced me to meditation and Eastern spiritual philosophies. I read “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda and ” Science of Breath” by Yogi Ramacharaka
https://thefamilysect.com/#about
https://cultofthefamily.com/about
Swami Muktanada
!974 aged 19 years old I met Swami Muktanada from India in Melbourne Australia. I acquired an alternative way of living based on Indian chanting, philosophy and vegetarian food.
https://www.siddhayoga.org/baba-muktananda
Four visits to India
1975 – 2 months
Staying in the Ashrams/ spiritual communities of
1/ Ramana Maharshi Tiruvannamalai Tamil Nadu State South East India https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org
2/ Swami Muktanada Ganeshpuri Maharashtra State India https://www.siddhayoga.org/baba-muktananda
3/ Nisargadatta Maharaj Mumbai Maharashtra State https://realization.org/p/nisargadatta/nisargadatta.html
1976 – 2 months
1/ Swami Muktanada Ganeshpuri Maharashtra State India https://www.siddhayoga.org/baba-muktananda
1977 – 8 months
1/ Swami Muktanada Ganeshpuri Maharashtra India https://www.siddhayoga.org/baba-muktananda
2/ Ananda Moyi Ma 4 months Haridwar Uttarakhand state North India https://www.anandamayi.org/
3/ Ramakrishna and Ma Serada Devi Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) West Bengal https://ramakrishna.org/ramakrishna.html
https://ramakrishna.org/saradadevi.html
4/ visited the family home of Paramahansa Yogananda and met the last living relative of Yogananda. Sanada Lal Gosh, Yogananda’s youngest brother Kolkata West Bengal State https://yogananda.org/a-beloved-world-teacher
5/ visited the ashram of Yogananda’s Guru, Sri Yukteshwar Puri Odisha State East India
https://www.sriyukteswar.com/#bio
1996 – 1 month
1/ The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Pondicherry Tamil Nadu State South-East India
https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/mother/
https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/sriaurobindo/
2/ Sathya Sai Baba
Puttaparthi, Andrah Pradesh State
https://www.sathyasai.org/sathya-sai/life-and-legacy
3/ Mata Amritanandamayi Amritapuri Kollum Kerala State
https://www.amritapuri.org/amma
https://www.amritapuri.org/ashram
4/ revisited Ramana Maharshi Tiruvannamalai Tamil Nadu State South East India
https://www.sriramanamaharshi.org
Findhorn Foundation/Community Scotland U.K.
I visited in 1979, 1981(7 months), 1992 and 1996
https://www.findhorn.org/about-us/
1983 E.S.T. Erhard Seminars Training http://www.erhardseminarstraining.com/
1985 L.R.T. Loving Relationship Training by Sondra Ray
https://sondraray.com/programs-seminars/the-new-loving-relationships-training/
2000 Tantra training 1 week residential in Byron Bay NSW Australia with Margot Anand https://margotanand.com/
2000 David Deida 12 day workshop Byron Bay NSW Australia https://deida.info/
2000-2002 Core energetics body psychotherapy https://www.energeticsinstitute.com.au/articles/what-is-core-energetics/
2015 Joel Bauer I attend ProfitPoint 20 KL Malaysia March 9-15 2015 conducted by Joel Bauer Mastering the art of presence, pitch and persuasion
2019 Dr Reggie Ray American Tibetan Buddhist
I studied with Reggie who teaches body descent meditation
