01/05/2026
A Taste of Heaven
A year or two after Annie and I got married, we visited a stationer’s / bookshop in Tring, in Buckinghamshire. There I picked up a book by Paul McKenna and, leafing through it, read a piece of advice that we followed. The advice was to put photos of the things we wanted in a scrap book, and look at them from time to time.
Well, we definitely had things that we wanted! I had been working on a voluntary basis for a charity for many years, so we really didn’t have very much. So we bought a scrap book and put in lots of photos: of kitchen equipment that we needed, also a house by the sea, overlooking a harbour, with a ferry visible – like the house in Cephalonia where we had spent a week on our honeymoon; trips abroad; healthy teeth – I had a lot of dental issues in those years; cash in the bank. And we looked at the photos from time to time. Then we forgot about them.
And a few years later, when we looked again, we found that we had achieved almost all of the goals we had set ourselves: we had plenty of kitchen equipment, we had moved to a (small!) house by the sea with views of the river, the sea, the harbour, the marina, cliffs and – the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry! We had travelled to some wonderful locations around the world; my teeth were healthier – if fewer. One notable exception was cash in the bank – still, four out of five ain’t bad!
What next?
Then, when we thought what pictures we could put in the scrapbook next, i.e. what did we really want now – we couldn’t think of any things. That was weird.
Some time later the thought came up ‘Create Heaven on Earth’ – obviously not by ourselves! I started rolling that idea round the brain. It was a very big idea, and not so easy to define, also what could I do to bring it about?
I had been practising Transcendental Meditation for many years and my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, had often spoken about Heaven on Earth. But somehow that had been a wonderful and exotic idea from someone else. This time, the thought had come from inside.
So I wondered what to do. I had also been teaching TM for many years, and that certainly improved my life and the lives of my students. .They reported being less worried and anxious, more creative, with more energy. Relationships were more fulfilling. All beautiful improvements in the direction of Heaven on Earth, certainly.
But I wondered if there was something else. And then I heard about Sukshma Marma Therapy, which was being taught by a brilliant German doctor, Ernst Schrott. I’ve written about that separately, but one of the things I noticed on the courses I attended with Dr Schrott was – they felt heavenly! So much so that when I had completed the training, I continued going to all the courses I could. Technically they were repeats of the same three courses but, in practice, they were all different because the course structure kept evolving.
Heavenly!
What they all had in common was – that heavenly feeling. Looking back on it, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how that was created. Dr Schrott himself was a very special and wonderful person. He was incredibly knowledgeable, but also highly intuitive and also very kind and generous with his time and knowledge. Oh, and he was an amazing therapist / healer. He would invite people with different issues – back problems, frozen shoulders, emotional blockages, whatever – to come to the front of the group. Then, very quietly, gently, kindly, he would perform some miraculous Marma Therapy and they would get better. It was amazing.
And he would insist that we could all do this.
Also, the people that attended the courses contributed to that heavenly feeling. By and large they were either therapists themselves or people who had practised TM for many years. And then, of course, it was the nature of Marma Therapy itself. By reconnecting the individual with their deepest Self, it created a blissful feeling of Heaven.
Then, when I started giving Marma Therapy taster sessions at well-being fairs – the most I ever did in one day was 26! – I noticed that when it was time for the person to open their eyes, they would very often have a beautiful smile on their faces as if they had been somewhere wonderful, even though they were in a busy and often noisy exhibition room.
And it worked for others!
And after treatments, people said things like: ‘Beautiful! Amazing! Very different. Such a gentle touch, so beneficial. I can’t talk now. Heavenly! It felt like the sunshine was shining all the time [even though it was a grey, overcast day].’ Or ‘Bliss – that was heavenly!’ Or ‘It was just heaven, just what the body needed after having a battering. Felt like: ‘Everything’s ok, now’ Or ‘Heaven is in a studio in Newhaven; I did just want to say a massive thank you for my time in Heaven yesterday’
