Film and literature are granted ultimate freedom of exploration in science fiction, provided as they are with the available backdrop of all of time and space. But for its most discerning fans, physical exploration was always just the beginning of the journey. Be it ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ or ‘ET phone home’, humanity’s potential is only ever as strong as the personal exploration that takes place along the way.

My new series celebrating the lessons in Emotional Intelligence we didn’t notice ourselves learning, and links the stories (science, science-fiction and religious/mythological alike) that had the same philosophical and ethical ends in mind.