About

This page is the long version of who I am. If you only want the short one, it is on the Start Here page.

The vision at four

My first spiritual experience was a vision, at about four years old, about the physical nature of the universe. I did not understand it until I was nearly thirty. I understood it very well by then.

I told my mother about it. She gave me two aspirin and sent me to bed.

So I never shared what I saw again until I was an adult, and that turned out to be a gift, because nobody ever got the chance to talk me out of it. My mother was psychic herself. She denied it all her life. I think I learned as much from watching her deny it as I would have learned from her teaching me.

Different

At school it was plain that I was different. I never fitted into any group, and yet every group seemed to accept me. As a teenager I realised I could sense what people were feeling and thinking, and that I could put a thought into someone's head and watch them pick it up. Nobody around me seemed to know that was possible, let alone how to do it, and there was nobody to ask.

I grew up in a church going family, Sunday school and all of it. I explored religion in a lot of denominations looking for answers, and the deeper I went the more questions I had. I will spare you the long version. I left it at four, in my heart, and again at about forty, on purpose, and I have not been part of a religion since. I still talk to God every day. I used to call it prayer. Now I just call it talking.

Learning, then teaching

By my late teens I was deep into healing, learning everything I could get my hands on. By my early twenties I was teaching groups: psychic development, meditation, psychometry, mediumship, healing. I used the tarot heavily for a while, found its limits, and moved on to working with no tools at all, just my sense of things. I taught on and off for about thirty years.

It was in my twenties that I met Melissa. She was my guide. I could see her clearly, I trusted her completely, and she saw every flaw I had along with every strength, which made hiding anything pointless. I faced the biggest challenges of my life with her beside me, and most of those challenges were me. Years later, after a surgery in 2005 that I was not certain of surviving, I went back and questioned everything I believed about guides, the way I question everything. What I found was that Melissa is my own higher self, wearing a face I could trust at a time when I would not have trusted my own. I still talk with her. Knowing what she is has made that better.

Somewhere in those years a spirit animal visited me, something like a cross between a cat and a monkey, a metre tall sitting down, and it knew me. Twenty years later I found a picture of an extinct lemur that looked exactly like it. Go figure.

The missing piece

I want to be plain about this part, because it is the part most people relate to.

For a long stretch of my adult life I felt lost. Alone, confused about my direction, sure that something was missing and sure that I had simply got some part of my life wrong. I spent thousands of dollars on gurus, coaches, courses, books and recordings. I enrolled in a college course to learn a new skill and dropped out after six months because my heart was not in it. None of it touched the empty spot.

Then it all clicked. All the old learning suddenly fell into place. I found I had the answer already and had not known that I knew it. I learned how to be my own teacher and my own student. I learned what my abilities are and what they are for. I learned who I am, and how to be that person all of the time.

The missing piece was me.

That is why I teach the way I teach. You will be your own teacher. You will be your own guide. All I will do is help you to remember what you already know.

Now

Life asked me to take a long break from teaching, and I took it. When it was time to come back I knew it, and I started the Perth Spiritual Learning group on Facebook in July 2020. I post there every single day. Some of it is teaching, some of it is a question to sit with, some of it is what the sky is doing this week. The group is free, it always will be, and it is the heart of everything else.

Alongside the group I do personal readings, written documents that bring the tarot, numerology and astrology together against your own chart. The chart and the cards are two languages describing the same soul, and I read them side by side. Details and prices are on the Readings page.

I have no interest in being anybody's guru. Question everything I say. Take what rings true and leave the rest. Review your whole belief system every so often, including the parts I gave you. That is how you grow, and it is how I grew.

We are spiritual beings choosing to be here to have a human experience. Keep in touch with the human part. It is why you came.

Contact

The easiest way to reach me is a message through the Perth Spiritual Learning group on Facebook, or by email at donald@perthspirituallearning.com. If your question is about a reading, say so and I will send you what I need from you.

Love you all.

Donald