About me Don’t you wish your grandparents — and even your great-grandparents — would have written a one-page autobiography summing up their lives? To be handed down for ever and ever. But they didn’t do it. People used to record births, deaths and marriages in the family bible, but they don’t even do that anymore....

More reflections Your past lives People want to know if they were a certain person in a past life. There are two ways to find out, that I know of. The first way you can’t make happen — but if it happens all by itself, then it furnishes absolute proof. This way is when you...

What do we do in the spirit world after we die? It’s like the Scots say, “Ye’re a long time dead.” I have some theories …. My favourite theory is that we get to see everything — we can go back in time, stay in the present, or go forward. We can go to every...

Affairs of the workplace The key to good work? Focus and an enquiring mind. Another thing, young people: You’ve got to check your own work and correct your errors, before your work leaves you. Don’t assume you haven’t made any errors. When replying to an email, re-read the incoming email before you hit the Send...

Affairs of the heart The heart chemical When you’re in love, you produce a specific chemical in the region of the heart. This, I have found, is always mutual — the other person who’s in love with you produces the same chemical. I don’t know if it’s an organic chemical in your physical heart, or...

What am I? You’re a human soul in a physical incarnation. The meaning of life? The meaning of life is to enable the soul to progress. We progress only here in the physical world, not in the spiritual world. Rudolf Steiner says it better: “Once I came into this world … to acquire qualities unattainable...