Mary is from a Scottish linage born in London in 1954. Her research into human psychology and mysticism spans over fifty-years. For thirty years she worked in various fields of mental health in London before retiring to the remote Himalayas.

In London, she began a career in social care with the terminally ill and then moved into Mental Health. She underwent three psychotherapy trainings and also studied various alternative therapies.

In London, she practiced full-time as a psychotherapist for twenty-years. She was a pioneer in synthesizing diverse schools of psychological understanding and went on to create a UKCP (government registered) psychotherapy training. She also taught in other training institutes, as well as having a part-time practice in the N.H.S with a team of doctors, introducing psychotherapy into mainstream medical practice.

In India, initially she lived for four-years with a group of nine rare Yogis in the remote jungles near the Ganges. She then moved to the remotest Kinnauri side of the Himalayas in order to undergo deeper research into meditation, ancient Yogic Science, Quantum Physics and Extrasensory Perception with Nature (ESP). 

Mary has guided uncountable people over the years, run Vispassana retreats in the UK and India, and also written extensively about her experiences. She is a keen supporter of a girl’s orphanage in the remotest regions and also a wrestling Ankara ashram in Delhi that train young people in this oldest form of self-defense.