From a chance acquisition of a battered leather-bound notebook, an extensive and extremely well-written narrative was revealed which recounted the life of a midshipman in the East India Company, through to the time when he owned his own vessels and settled in Tasmania. "Chronometer Jack" is an outstanding autobiography by John Miller, an Edinburgh-born Shipmaster and Coastguard officer, an educated man whose working life commenced on board East India Company ships. It provides many insights into the tough but sometimes amusing life under William Younghusband on the Lord Castlereagh, the tyrannical Tommy Larkins on the Marquis Camden and Thomas Balderston on the Asia. Seconded to an opium vessel and the associated risks of trading in opium in the 1820s, Miller experienced the trauma of capture by the Chinese. Returning to Scotland, he married Jessie Adamson, the sister of John and Robert, famed pioneers of photography. Later, Miller set up in business as a master-shipowner in the convict colony of Tasmania, trading mainly with Sydney and Port Phillip. The gripping narrative is full of incident and unforgettable characters and his first-hand observations on society in Van Diemen's Land when still a convict colony make compelling reading. Bankrupted, Miller and his family were forced to return to Britain where circumstances forced him to join the Coastguard, serving in Northumberland, Tynemouth and Lincolnshire. His frustrations with bureaucracy, the higher status accorded former Royal Navy Officers and, in his recruiting capacity, the relatively poor quality of seamen joining the Royal Naval Reserve, constantly surface in the text - a rare insight into the occupation and tribulations experienced by a Coastguard officer in the 1850s and '60s. Although Captain Miller's original manuscript included numerous references to people identified only by an initial letter, most of these were subsequently identified, providing his narrative with a rich and well-attested circumstantial context.

NONDUALITY AWARENESS THROUGH FLOWERS
Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature. The wisdom of Advaita Vedanta which means nonduality, recognizes we are all pure consciousness, we are the pristine awareness of every experience.
"The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the history of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless."- Eckhart Tolle
There are many questions to ask when looking at life: religious, mathematical, philosophical, biochemical - each having their own persuasions on who you are; what you are; why you are the way you are...yet do you discover anything about yourself that really makes a difference? Has there been a spiritual shift? Have you opened up and blossomed into a higher state of life? Is your world now a happier, more joyful place to be? Can you truly say, "I am infinite love"? If not, then this book will reveal the profundity of being the infinite love that you really are. This is not so much a "how to" book, rather, it is an "is" book. Love is what you are deep, deep down.
From seed to bloom - poets, painters and prophets teach that the path to discovering love's eternal flame is through the opening and flowering of the human heart.
""If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."" - Alfred Tennyson

A mystical love story for the heart and soul inspired by the Upanishads sacred writings that teach pure awareness. This one-of-a-kind book speaks directly to the heart and soul of every reader, revealing a beautiful vision of a perfect world. A love story that transcends all time and space and the illusion of separation, told in simple lyrical style with dazzling illustrations. This mystic tale weaves together a world of unity where opposites play together in a deep absorption of what is real and what is illusory. Told in four parts: The First Awakening, The Sleeping, The Dreaming and The Reawakening, The Garden mirrors the Upanishads Three States and One Reality: Waking to an outside world, Dreaming in the mind, Dissolving in deep sleep and Awakening to pure awareness. The condensed narrative contains deeper meanings so designed that each reader needs to think about the words through a sustained process of inner reflection. Each reader will discover many different levels of meaning and this will lead to their own individual "awakening" in The Garden. "Think of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet meets Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha." The Garden is a parable about the origin of life that gently opens the heart, allowing the reader to experience oneness: a self-realization where feelings, thoughts and perceptions are seen as the ever-changing appearances of awareness itself. Enlightenment is simply the art of being. The art of love. An openness, where everything and nothing are one. The cup and water, though not joined together, they are one. We are all connected to the origin of life. The boundless all. The clear state of being awake. The invisible source of being. Inside us there is peace and happiness. It is our home. So journey into life, journey into the fullness and perfect presence of oneness and see the wonderful miracle that you already are. ""It is the beautiful illustrations of sacred geometry woven into Celtic patterns and nature's gifts that makes this little book really special. The reader is taken through a love story of the soul and I could not help but think of that other great poem of love by Khalil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet, as I read through these pages. This is a book to languish over in the quiet of your mind and can be used as an excellent tool for inspiration, illumination and opening of the heart."" -- Elizabeth Peru, Insight Publishing Winner of the prestigious Premier's Book Awards in Western Australia

VOYAGER: THE ART OF PURE AWARENESS An essential and inspirational work that conveys the inexpressible truth of existence-"we are pure awareness at centre, human in appearance." Abiding in the very heart of humanity is the key to true peace and happiness. Each of the twenty-five chapters presents a voyage toward our inner, universal self, bringing a deeper and wider perspective along the way. Exploring the shores of human-beingness ever more deeply, we realise, "soul is the lighthouse-the light that guides us safely home." By simply experiencing ourselves without distraction of mind, we see through personal drama to our true nature. Pure awareness is an art that requires practice to quiet the surface of mind and still the moving waters of our emotional seas. Awakening is recognising all appearances are illuminated from the light that shines in our heart. We stand at the bow of our ship. The sky is clear, the sea is calm - ..".Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." -Walt Whitman

Puri - Nominated for the PBA Digital Narrative Awards 2011
"Listen to the words that come out of the mouths of babes and you will hear the truth." - Chinese Proverb
A true story of a child's compassionate act of charity towards a homeless and pregnant dog. Set on the beautiful island of Bali, Sam and his canine friend, Puri, embark on a 'high seas' adventure taking them beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
"Heart Consciousness is the center of compassion, altruism and acceptance"
Within our living faculties: senses, body, mind and emotions, even our personal beliefs and cultures, one common principle of life is shared beneath their differences. And this one living principle is nonduality awareness Life in itself is pure awareness, the real self. A unity of unconditioned consciousness is the underlying source of life from from which all lives bodies and and minds arise.
The natural state of life is aliveness and playfulness. To really feel alive is to live openly through heart consciousness. A child's heart is open, playful and constantly alive in imagination.
Puri is a true story that transcends the limitations and constraints of language and culture, taking us beyond our separateness, teaching us that we all come from the same center of life that is love. Nonduality is the awareness of oneness.
Seen through the eyes of a child, a young boy's compassionate act of kindness towards a homeless and pregnant dog takes us on an adventure to the island of Bali. With beautifully hand-dawn illustrations, you will be inspired by the rich, warm and abundant colors of Bali. Most pictures contain an Indonesian word woven together with English showing that beyond our differences of expression and culture we really all speak the same language.