I had a profound and blessed start. I was adopted. I only found out about it 21 years on. It later became apparent you didn’t tell your kids they were adopted in the 1950’s, so forgiving my wonderful parents was easy in the end.

This experience coloured much of my earlier life, as I used it to declare myself special. The gift it gave me was a lifelong quest for answers to life’s biggest mysteries. And when I had found ‘the answers’ I wanted to use them to help others, knowing we are all special.

However, we know there are no answers, only a process of remembering what we have forgotten. Like the acorn which grows into the mighty oak, we already have all life’s ‘secrets’ when we are born.

Watch Jack in [one of three] a YouTube video by clicking on the image.

And yet isn’t life so fascinating? Its endless richness and diversity. The source of so much wonder and pleasure.

As with everyone, life has brought me 'pain'; until I finally realised like Neale Donald Walsch what makes it work.

I have an amazing wife, two wonderful step-daughters and their families, four near-human cats and many friends and clients it continues to be a privilege to know and to have served. And in 2006 I met my birth mother [flew over from the USA ], my [half] brother and his family [we’ve lived a few miles apart for 40 odd years] and discovered I have two other brothers and a sister.

As I have written elsewhere, I’m fast becoming a legend in my own lunchtime. Without humour, all this incarnation would be pointless. Thanks to God my best mate for that!