He has a beard, a tricycle that he uses to get round the Derbyshire lanes and a voice so soothing that it brings calm to all who hear it.

John Butler, a retired farmer, has become an unlikely YouTube star after his videos on meditation and spirituality became an internet sensation. A few years ago he barely knew what the internet was.

Butler, 84, whose channel has 125,000 subscribers, has been interested in meditation almost all his adult life, but few people had heard of him until four years ago he gave an interview on a channel called Conscious TV. It focuses on people with experience of higher consciousness. For Butler everything started to change.

John Butler was a pioneer of organic farming and took up meditation when a voice told him: To make whole be whole

With the help of a friend who was a cameraman

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