Donna Goddard

June 11, 2026June 12, 2026

Sleep Tracking and Beyond

I recently got a small health tracker to wear on my wrist. After the first night, it informed me that I had slept for eight hours. It showed periods of deep, REM, and light sleep. It estimated my heart rate throughout the night and gave me a score for the quality of my sleep.

What is Sleep?

Science has many answers. Memories are consolidated, emotions are processed, tissues are repaired, and the brain performs essential maintenance. Sleep is important.

Many spiritual traditions, however, speak about sleep differently. Rather than seeing it as a time when consciousness is diminished, they say that consciousness is expanded. The physical personality recedes into the background and our higher self becomes more accessible.

Some mystical Christian teachings describe sleep as a temporary return to God. Some Hindu traditions say that deep sleep offers a glimpse of our true nature beyond the individual self. Dream yoga traditions within Buddhism believe that consciousness continues its journey while the body rests.

Sleep researchers sometimes jokingly describe REM sleep as “a waking brain in a sleeping body.” REM is associated with vivid dreaming, memory integration, creativity, learning, and the rich inner experiences many people remember upon waking. During REM sleep, the brain is highly active while the body is deeply asleep. In fact, the body is temporarily paralysed, preventing us from physically acting out our dreams. While our body is motionless in bed, our consciousness is free to travel.

Our waking life is not the whole story.

June 2, 2026June 10, 2026

The Missing Years

Here are the next few chapters of Book 2 of the Enanika Series.

Enlan was angry and hurt that Anu stayed away for six years. We find out why.

Chapter 3: New Anu

In Enanika:

Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.

Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, “Goodbye, my love.”

She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began.

May 31, 2026May 31, 2026

Many Moments: Higher Mind Reminders is Now Available!

I’m very happy to share with you that Many Moments is now available.

It’s the sort of book you can give as a gift, keep on your bedside table or kitchen bench, or leave beside your favourite chair. It’s easy to read but very helpful for lifting your spirits and reminding you of your higher-self path.

Each page contains a beautiful contemplative image paired with a short reflective piece designed to give you a small but meaningful moment of clarity and reconnection.

May 20, 2026May 20, 2026

Different People Need Different Stories

Why are different readers drawn to different stories?

What We Love

I’m not a fiction reader, even though I write fiction. However, I go through stages of being interested in various types of stories. I can’t remember the last time I read a novel in the traditional way, but I occasionally listen to an audio story while driving or, more often, watch the film version of a story that interests me.

Recently, for instance, I became interested in science fiction. I loved the K-PAX and Project Hail Mary movies.

K-PAX is about a man living in a psychiatric hospital who claims he is an extraterrestrial being from another planet. His psychiatrist slowly becomes drawn into the life-changing mystery, and many of the patients begin to heal and change through their contact with the extraterrestrial man. It was not just the extraterrestrial theme that fascinated me, but the intelligence behind the story — about consciousness, mental illness, trauma, psychotherapy, hypnosis, healing, and the complexity of human beings. The story was grounded in human suffering, but it was very hopeful, buoyant, and often funny.

In Project Hail Mary, I loved the originality of the extraterrestrial being — a strange rock-like creature that felt just as real and intelligent as the human beside it. I was fascinated by the evolution of their communication. Completely different worlds, completely different biological systems, and completely different ways of perceiving reality, yet they found trust, humour, love, sacrifice, and purpose together.

May 15, 2026June 3, 2026

Back in Town

I hope you enjoyed Enanika (Book 1 of the Enanika Series). I have now begun writing Book 2.

A lot has happened in the space between Books 1 and 2. For one thing… six years. Here are the opening chapters.

Chapter 1: Dynamic Dancing

Six years later:

Winter moved sharply through the city streets, pushing cold wind between buildings and along tram tracks. People walked quickly, shoulders raised against it, scarves pulled close, hands wrapped around takeaway coffees.

Anu walked much more slowly, her attention moving from one thing to another, trying to orient herself to a world she had not seen for six years, and even then had not been at ease with.

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

Never a Lack

People often say they have a problem with lack. Usually, they mean lack of money, but they may also mean lack of time, lack of love, lack of opportunities, or lack of freedom. Although certain experiences may look like lack, the issue is not really lack at all. If we understand this, the whole playing field of life will change significantly.

We are never without creative energy. We are never without life force. We are never without the ability to create experiences. Human beings are creating all the time. We cannot help but create, because our very experience of being human is itself a creative process. We have dreamed existence into reality, and moment by moment, we continue dreaming things up as we go. The problem is not that we lack the ability to create. The problem is that most people dream up their lives from unconscious, unhelpful beliefs.

April 25, 2026April 25, 2026

Two-Way Street

In close relationships, especially partner relationships, there’s a subtle but important line. On one side, it’s about standing on our own two feet — emotionally, financially, practically, energetically, and in whatever ways apply in our situation. We don’t do this out of fear or self-protection, but out of respect for ourselves and the other person. We don’t want to be a burden. We want to be a positive contribution to their life, to bring ourselves into the relationship in a genuine, giving way.

But the other side matters just as much. What is the other person actually offering us? They need to bring something meaningful into our life. It may not be meaningful to everyone, but it has to be meaningful to us. Otherwise, what are we really doing together? It’s not about blame or accusation. It’s about being honest, and caring enough about the relationship to be truthful.

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026

Enanika is Here!

Enanika: Visionary Fiction is now available.

It’s a personal and expansive story, and I’m so happy to share with you the first book in the Enanika Series — a new series, a new world.

On the peaceful, light-filled planet of Enanika, where life is guided by harmony, energy, and telepathy, Anu prepares for her first solo mission as a contact caller. Her destination is Earth — dense, troubled, beautiful, and poised for change.

In the rural town of Milkwood, she meets Enlan, another being from her world. But their paths unfold very differently. Anu remains aware of who she is and why she’s here, while Enlan becomes immersed in the human experience, gradually losing his connection to where he came from.

Enanika is not just a story about people, but about worlds… about who we are, and who we believe ourselves to be.

Available as an ebook, paperback, and audiobook (audiobook is currently available in the U.S. only).

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February 21, 2026February 21, 2026

We’ll Be Fine: A Conversation about Reality

Recently, a friend shared his concerns about what the future with AI might hold. He spoke about control, power, greed, and the possibility that technologies could be steered by ill intent. Beneath it was a fear that the world was moving in an unsafe direction.

In the past, my response to a conversation like this would have been somewhat different.

I knew that focusing on negative outcomes draws negative outcomes.
I viewed the world as a single, shared reality we are shaping together, and so it seemed vital to encourage a collective shift.

I would have said something like, “If we approach this with care, and enough people choose that direction, then things can turn out well. In the end, good prevails.”

However, this time, I did not say that.

I placed my hand on his arm and said, “Don’t worry. We’ll all be fine.”

He looked at me questioningly. I nodded and repeated, “I know we will be. We’ll all be fine.”

As simple as the response seems, the understanding behind it is not small.

February 14, 2026February 14, 2026

Blueprint of Dreams — poem

What if this life wasn’t as real as we thought?
What if our dreams weren’t as dreamy as they seemed?

What if this life were as fluid as a dream?
What if our dreams were as real as our waking world?

What if we could dream while awake,
and wake while dreaming?

What if we could shape our waking life,
and draw from our dreams, our blueprint?

If we can become lucid in our dreams,
we can become liquid in our waking state.

If we can wake within our dreams,
we can wake when we are awake.

Wake up there.
Wake up here.

This is the first poem in the poetry book I am currently writing — Blueprint of Dreams: Poems and Disruptions, which will be available later in 2026.