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.

My mother was psychic, and she denied it all her life. I told her about the vision, and she gave me an aspirin and sent me for a nap. Go figure.

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. 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 in July 2020 I started teaching again as Perth Spiritual Learning. Since May 2026 I have written something every single day, and every one of those pieces lives on this site. 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. It is the heart of everything else.

Alongside the writing 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.

How I work

There is a part of this I want to be plain about, because someone will ask one day, and they should.

I have worked in computers all my working life, and for decades I have run my own IT business, building and looking after systems for other people. That is the other half of my life, and when the two halves met, they created something unique. Those years also gave me the skills to build what I describe below myself, rather than hand my work to someone else's tool.

Over forty years I have built up a large library of my own. Teaching notes, readings, charts, the meaning I give every card and every number, and the way I put them together. All of it written down, in my words.

On top of that library I built my own AI system, designed specifically to help me deliver personalised readings. It calculates your numerology and your birth chart from your details the way I do it by hand, only faster and without the slips. Then it drafts the reading from my library and my way of reading, not from the internet at large, so the draft starts in my voice and my framework.

Then I go through every page myself. I check the numbers, I cross reference the reading against your chart, I read every line against what I know, and I change whatever needs changing. Nothing leaves here until I am happy to put my name to it. If something is wrong, it is my mistake and I will own it.

The daily posts are made the same way. The tools help me write every day, and every post is read, corrected and published by me.

So what you get is forty years of my practice, carried by a system I built for it, and checked by me before it reaches you. I would rather tell you that plainly than have you wonder.

The IT bloke ended up here. Go figure.

Contact

The easiest way to reach me is through the Contact page, or by email at donald@perthspirituallearning.com.au. If your question is about a reading, say so and I will send you what I need from you.

Love you all.

Donald