After leaving Australia in 1972, Lucy settled in Oxford and began an Ethnology diploma and three years D. Phil research in sacred symbolism and Zoroastrianism. Simultaneously she began esoteric studies and practice, and was a founder member of the Saros Foundation for the Perpetuation of Knowledge 1978-2001 and High Peak Meditation. Her first two books give details of this background. She teaches classic non-denominational meditation, and trained in a coaching method working with metaphor and symbol called Symbolic Encounters. https: //www.meaningbydesign.co.uk/