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The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series) is Here!

I’m very happy to share with you that Book 2 of the Enanika Series is now available!

Six years ago, Anu left Milkwood for the three-day Sirius alignment and didn’t come back. Enlan didn’t go with her. He chose to stay. By the time Anu returns to Earth, she has been trained as a Storyteller, someone who doesn’t just connect worlds but carries their inner life, their dreams, their felt truth, the way a crystal holds light. Meanwhile, Enlan has changed too. Will they still connect? And if so, in what way?

A weekly train trip into the city. A free trial dance class. An unearthly green stone left on a spare-room shelf. The sacred in this book shows up in the small things. It also shows up at world-scale: years that don’t match, a seven-night ceremony of monumental importance, a vision of our far future. The grand and the grounded sit side by side because both matter. Whether you choose to stay present with someone across a table or across a galaxy, it’s the same choice — asked at a different scale.

The Storytellers is a deeply human and mystical novel about what shapes us, what we carry, and the lives we choose.

Enanika Series: Combined Volume

This combined volume includes the first two books in the Enanika Series: Enanika and The Storytellers.

The Enanika Series is visionary fiction exploring consciousness, love, interworld contact, and the meeting point between realities. The series currently includes two books, Enanika and The Storytellers, with more books to come.

“The Enanika Series: Combined Volume brings together two richly imagined works of visionary fiction in a seamless exploration of consciousness, love, interworld contact, and human transformation. Donna Goddard balances intimate relationships with expansive metaphysical ideas, creating a thoughtful and distinctive series that moves confidently between the personal and the cosmic.”

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Eating from the Inside Out

There is no single correct diet for everyone. Our bodies differ, and ideally we become aware enough to recognise what, when, and how much we genuinely need. That means learning to distinguish the body’s own intelligence from habit, advertising, cravings, emotional eating, and all the other influences that can drown it out.

Conscious eating is not meant to be joyless or rigid. It is about respect, awareness, and enjoyment. Food is an exchange of life and energy, and it is also one of the pleasures of being human. Eat in a way that supports your body, feels clean and appropriate for you, and still allows you to genuinely enjoy what you are receiving.

—Consciousness Continuing COMING 2027

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Somewhat Scary

On a recent trip to Uluru and Kata Tjuta, I noticed how many small things made me anxious: airport logistics, buses and pick-up times, long walks in unfamiliar terrain, and even a helicopter ride. Yet those same challenges heightened the experience. They reminded me I was in a remote, powerful place. A world very different from my usual one.

Fear and anxiety do not necessarily mean that something is wrong or that we should turn back. Sometimes they tell us, “This matters. Pay attention.” A challenge is not automatically a negative thing. The uncertainty, vulnerability, and effort are all woven into the gift itself.

—Consciousness Continuing COMING 2027

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Love’s Longing Update

I have made a major update to Love’s Longing, one of my earlier books, first published in 2016. It has been carefully re-edited and given a fresh presentation, with beautiful new images throughout and a cleaner, easier-to-read format.

Love’s Longing is special in that it holds many stories from my own life—from childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, as well as from family life and the years that followed.

Most of the stories are not particularly dramatic. They are the sorts of things that make up all our lives: something funny a child did, something unexpectedly wise someone said, a fear that had to be faced, a change of direction no one saw coming, a relationship that taught something, or a difficult experience that eventually revealed a different way forward.

The stories create an energy field through which the larger spiritual ideas can be felt rather than just known in the mind. We all have these stories. The details may differ, but beneath them lie profound archetypal human experiences that lead to even more profound spiritual experiences.

Love’s Longing
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The Storytellers: Galactic Neighbourhood

I have been making progress on The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series). Here is part of Chapter 10.

The bookshop heater clicked every few minutes and the old wall clock near the philosophy shelves announced the passing of time. When the Reading Rooms breathed quietly, so did Anu. And so did Michael. 

Anu was shelving a box of donated books and a folded paper slipped from between the pages of an astronomy atlas. It fluttered to the floor like a winged prayer. She picked it up. It was a map of stars. 

Sol (Earth’s sun) lay at the centre, surrounded by star systems within 13 light-years. It wasn’t all the star systems within that range. Only some of them, making it… selective. All the more interesting.

Anu carried the map to the front counter. Michael looked up from balancing the previous month’s accounts.

“What have you found?”

She put the map down and said, “Our local stellar neighbourhood.”

Michael adjusted his glasses and studied the names:

Proxima Centauri. Alpha Centauri. Barnard’s Star. Wolf 359. Luyten 726-8. Sirius. Ross 154. Ross 248. Epsilon Eridani. 61 Cygni. Epsilon Indi. Procyon A. Tau Ceti. Kruger 60.

“I thought there were more stars than this within 13 light-years of us,” he said.

“There are.”

“Then why these?”

“These are the ones that have particular relevance to Earth,” explained Anu…

The Storytellers (Book 2 of Enanika Series) is COMING SOON!

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How to Be a Healer

I have started writing a new book called How to Be a Healer, which I will publish in 2027. Here is the introduction.

How to Be a Healer: Introduction

This book is not about healing techniques, although it does include some technique. It is about being the kind of person whose presence heals. 

We all have the ability to help other people heal, grow, see more clearly, and reconnect with themselves. Some people do this as psychologists, medical personnel, or complementary therapists. Others do it as parents, teachers, artists, or as kind human beings. In essence, healing is not a profession. It is a way of being.

If you are drawn to this book, you must already know, at some level, that you are a healer. You might not have used that word about yourself before or considered turning it into a profession, but you want to ease suffering and bring more peace into the world. You care.

Continue reading “How to Be a Healer”
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Window Shopping for Lives

Some people are forever on the verge of changing their lives. They become deeply absorbed in moving somewhere new, changing careers, travelling, taking up a new pursuit, or imagining a completely different relationship or way of living. For a while, the alternative life feels extraordinarily real. Then the interest passes and nothing changes physically.

Perhaps this is not always indecision or failure to follow through. Sometimes the immersion itself may be the experience. Consciousness can explore many possible lives without physically living all of them. We may enter fully into the energy of another reality, gain what we need from it, and then move on. The personality asks, “Did I do it?” Consciousness may be asking something quite different: “Did I experience it?”

—Consciousness Continuing COMING 2027

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The Tale of Two Humphreys

Technology is not inherently good or bad. Its value depends on how it is used. Some technologies complicate life, while others quietly remove burdens we do not particularly need to carry. Driving has never come naturally to me, so when I discovered how much a Tesla could do for itself, I happily handed over as much responsibility as possible. My first Tesla, Humphrey Butler, became a very capable assistant. When newer technology eventually offered far more advanced self-driving, I replaced him with an almost identical model: Humphrey Butler 2.

I imagined the two Humphreys meeting. Humphrey Butler 1 regarded the newcomer suspiciously. “So, after faithful service, I am to be replaced by a younger, fitter, more intelligent gentleman with superior reflexes.” Before departing for his new family, however, he gave HB2 one final instruction: “As Madam spends most of her time contemplating consciousness, reality, and the nature of existence, you will be expected to pay particular attention to the road.” HB2 assured him that he would.

—Consciousness Continuing COMING 2027

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Between the Frames

Imagine a place you love and allow it to become vivid in your mind. Then imagine that everything stops except you. A bird hangs motionless in the air, a wave pauses mid-crest, a person freezes halfway through a step. Now allow reality to begin moving again, but only one tiny movement at a time, as though you are watching a film frame by frame.

Once you can feel reality this way, begin changing things between the frames. Change the weather, the people, yourself, the possibilities, or the direction events are taking. The practice is not about forcing a particular outcome, but about loosening the sense that reality is fixed. Hold firmly to the feeling of what you prefer and lightly to the details, allowing life to organise itself in ways you may not yet have imagined.

—Body of Light (Book 2 of Being Meditation Series) COMING 2027

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Sleep Tracking and Beyond

I recently got a small health tracker to wear on my wrist. After the first night, it told me how long I had slept, how much time I had spent in deep, REM, and light sleep, and even gave me a sleep score. Science has many explanations for what happens during sleep: memories are consolidated, emotions processed, tissues repaired, and the brain carries out essential maintenance.

Spiritual traditions often add another possibility: that while the body rests, consciousness becomes less restricted by physical life. Dreams may include ordinary emotional processing, but they may also feel like encounters, journeys, continuing relationships, or experiences in realities beyond the waking world. My tracker can measure what my body is doing at night. What it cannot measure is where consciousness may be going.

—Consciousness Continuing COMING 2027

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