Allan Armstrong

Allan Armstrong, born 1951, married in 1970, has two children and four grandchildren, lives in a busy and generally happy communal family home, which hold four generations of family members including in-laws, out-laws and two dogs - Daisy, a deranged rough-haired Jack Russell, and Rosey a mad Jack-Russell cross.

Allan has devoted his life to developing a greater understanding of the spiritual life and the path of spiritual perfection. His research interests reflect this in his study of spiritual disciplines including prayer & meditation; liturgical studies; spiritual healing Methods; kabbalah and mysticism.

He is the author of two semi-biographical mystical novels, The Rose Priory Dialogues and The Pilgrimage; The Secret Garden of the Soul - an introduction to the Kabbalah; Notes on Meditation; Aspects of the Spiritual Life; and, Spiritualise Your Life - What every Christian Should Know; He has also written introductions to Frederic de Portal's Symbolic Colours, G.B. Scaramelli's Handbook of Mystical Philosophy, E.A. Wallis Budge's translation of The Paradise of the Fathers; C.E. Rolt's translation of Dionysis' On the Divine Names; Dudley Wright's, Prayer; Ruysbroeck's The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage, and the English translation of Brianchaninov's On the Prayer of Jesus. He is also the author of many article on esoteric and Spiritual subjects.