Ian's August 2026 Newsletter

I was very glad that I had a good supply of Solaris and Mulla Mulla whilst conducting my annual European and Japanese teaching tour from mid-May to mid-July this year. 

The journey started in England and I kept travelling east until I hit Japan. England was cold, grey and rainy with a maximum temperature of 14deg – nothing too unusual about this, but for the next two months, in mainland Europe, there wasn’t a day under 32deg. Many days were in the high 30s, including three days during my German workshop when it reached 40deg. Fortunately, the one air-conditioned room in the hotel where I stayed and taught was the workshop venue. 

Here in Australia, we can experience very hot weather, but unlike Europe we have air conditioning and often a late afternoon storm rolls in which usually lowers the temperature. Most European houses and hotels only have small fans in their rooms and this year the heat didn’t drop very much during the evening, so sleep was difficult. 

My workshops in England, Switzerland and France (the first three on the trip) were all White Light Essences. It's a lovely workshop and we greatly enjoy hearing how deep the participants can journey inwards and connect to Spirit during the meditations on each Essence. The Spiritual workshops are very different to the majority of the one-day workshops as well as Levels 1 and 2 where I share a great deal of information. The White Light Essence workshop travels at a very different tempo. Even though I discuss a lot of the qualities of each Essence and share case histories on them, the focus is on experiencing the remedies on an inner level.

This workshop always reminds me of the amazing complexity of life and consciousness. During the meditations, many participants experienced an inner journey to the locations where the Essences were made, even though the majority had never physically been there. Each meditation is very different. The Air Essence one is very light and ethereal and it’s incredibly hard to bring people back from the Earth Essence meditation because inwardly they go so deep. The Fire Essence meditation is always much more comfortable on a cold winter’s day than when the temperature is in the mid-30s Celcius. People get incredibly warm during this meditation! Many participants also experience vastly different spiritual beings, ranging from guides, nature spirits, star, angelic and ascended beings. Others will experience past or future lives, if there is a relevance to what’s happening with them in this life.  

Their wonderful and profound experiences leave me feeling very grateful and honoured to be the catalyst bringing through these Essences which have the effect and healing that they do. It makes it all worthwhile when I reflect back on some of the very difficult challenges I experienced making them – such as climbing on all fours along the knife-edge at the top of Schafberg mountain in Austria to make the Air Essence or climbing in the dark down the rotting vertical wooden rungs of a ladder descending down Putucusi mountain in Peru opposite Machu Picchu after making the Angelic Essence. This was one of only two occasions in my life when I thought I might die! My attitude when making the Essences has always been, “If you’re sending me here then you’ve got to look after me and keep me safe.” I have noticed that Spirit seems to have a very perverse sense of humour and often sends me to the most difficult of places. When I received the message that I had to travel to the sacred caves of Patal Bhuvaneshwar in northern India near the Tibetan border to make the Earth Essence, I offered the suggestion that the Jenolan caves outside of Sydney would be an equally excellent place to make the Essence. But this was ignored. I had been to these caves four years earlier and like my only other trip to India, had become seriously ill. India is the only country I have problems travelling in. Fortunately, on this Essence making expedition to the caves, it only took a number of months to fully recover!