If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?

I’d be a wolf. I love the freedom they have and the amazingly beautiful and wild parts of the world in which they live. All my life I’ve searched for higher truths and new understanding about the nature of reality. I’ve asked ‘why’ and ‘how’; not only how things are as they are, but often how they could be better. So I feel a deep kinship in the way that shamanically the wolf is described; as a pathfinder and pioneer of new ideas who then returns to the community to share them

What is your idea of happiness?

I love being at home with my husband Tony and my step kids especially in our garden and the lovely landscape around us where we live in Wiltshire. We grow most of our own vegetables and fruit and keep chickens and bees. I travel so much around the world with my work and when I’m home being able to pick the veg for our meals only minutes before it’s cooked and collecting eggs and honey is wonderful. I even make jam!

When did you last cry?

This morning around 5.00AM as the Sun rose. Tony and I live near Avebury and try to get there for the quarter-day dawns. We were there this morning for the Summer Solstice. The amazing cosmic harmony of the Sun, Moon and Earth never fails to move me. In 2008 we were at Mount Hua Shan in China for a solar eclipse. Approaching sunset, and at the exact moment of totality when the Sun and Moon come together, incredibly they appeared poised on the mountain peak across from where we stood – Heaven coming down to Earth! That made me cry too.

Who inspires you?

Ordinary people who do extraordinary things. I enjoy the Olympic Games – but love the Paraolympics even more. I enjoy watching www.TED.com and seeing great new ideas, often from young people, aiming to make a positive difference. As I’ve just written about in my new book HOPE, having been in Egypt in January this year just before the Revolution, I’ve been enormously inspired by the peaceful protesters there and throughout North Africa and the Middle East. And having been in Japan in March at the time of the devastating earthquake and tsunami, I’ve been inspired by the Japanese people’s response and their compassion and caring for each other.

What is your most treasured possession?

I can’t choose between a white jade statue of Guanyin that ‘adopted’ me in western China and an oak statue of St Michael that came to me on St Michael’s Day (29th September) just before the Millennium.

If you could meet one person, dead or alive, and spend some time with them, who would you choose and why?

From the age of four, I’ve had a lifetime of psychic, mystical and mediumistic guidance and experiences. So for around fifty-five years I’ve been able to walk between worlds and communicate with and learn from many beings – including dead folks. Around the world I’ve also met many amazing living people and learned enormously from them too. My choice would be to meet someone alive, because now is the moment for us to come together to co-create transformational change. So I’d like to meet Barack Obama; to discover whether he really understands our imminent global emergency. If not, to help him do so. And if he does, to entreat him to use his position and power to speak and act openly, honestly and with courage to lead and support positive and radical global transformation.      

What decision has had the greatest effect on your life?

My life’s been an ongoing see-saw between the extremes of ‘extraordinary’ and ‘ordinary’ experiences, finding a balance between them – and eventually appreciating the ‘extraordinary in the ordinary’ and the ‘ordinary in the extraordinary’ events of life.

Thirteen years ago, I had a clairaudient message to go to Silbury Hill on 4th May 1998. As I write about in my book The 13th Step, that began an amazing and transformational inner and outer journey of discovery that took me around the world. What I experienced and discovered about who we really are, our hidden heritage and what I call our cosmic destiny for 2012 and beyond; all unfolded from my decision to hear my inner voice that day. And...it also led to my marrying my beloved Tony; the soul-mate I never really thought I’d find. With him the extraordinary has become even more so, but balanced now with the joy and gratitude for simple, everyday ‘ordinary’ life. Finally I feel I’ve come home!  

Where is your favourite place in the world and why?

I’ve journeyed to nearly 70 countries around the world am often asked my favourite place. So many incredible locations jostle for that position including New Zealand, Alaska, Hawaii, Egypt, Japan and Easter Island. But my favourite favourite has to be Avebury.

Many years ago, whenever I felt low, I’d somehow find my way to Avebury and felt nurtured and restored. Then in the mid 1990s I moved to live within its landscape and began to work with and learn from the elemental and devic beings and guardians of the sacred sites here.

And like geomancer Richard Leviton and many others, I believe Avebury plays an energetically significant role in connecting us with the Galactic Centre and so in streaming in higher level awareness into our collective psyche.     

Paperback or e-book?

 From having learned to read when I was three years old, I’ve always loved the feel of a book in my hands; so at the moment my answer is paperback. But Tony is trying to get me to go more techie, so you never know; it may be e-books soon.

If you could pass one piece of wisdom onto the next generation what would it be?

Listen to the wisdom of your hearts, and see yourselves as spiritual beings having human experiences as part of an interconnected universal web of life.