Author: Donna Goddard

Donna Goddard, author of 20 spiritual books, shares her love for the Divine and the world with a large international audience and has a strong social media presence. She began her private practice in spiritual healing and counselling in 2005 and is available in person and online. Donna lives in rural Victoria, Australia.
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Consciousness Rising is Published!

I’m so happy to let you know that Consciousness Rising is now available. It is my 23rd book. I love all my books (like children) and each one is different (like children). Consciousness Rising carries the most advanced teaching of them, yet it’s not difficult to understand. It’s full of practical practices for you to try — enjoyable, transformative ways to change how you see and experience yourself and life. Available as paperback, ebook, and audiobook.

Consciousness Rising

Most people live their entire lives inside a narrow, troubled version of reality — unaware that both they and their world are fragments of a far greater field of consciousness.
Consciousness Rising is an invitation to step beyond those limits and awaken to the deeper architecture of existence.

Through paradigm-shifting insights, grounded practices, and lived stories, this book shows how awareness transforms every dimension of life — dissolving the patterns that confine us, reconfiguring our inner world, and revealing the extraordinary potential that is always within reach.

This is not abstract philosophy or comforting theory. It is radical truth — a shift in perception that changes how we think, love, create, and live. Within these pages, consciousness becomes a living, transformative force for you to embrace.

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Parallel Realities and Fiction

In the realm of fiction, some stories do more than momentarily entertain — they open a door to a parallel reality. One such story is James Hilton’s Lost Horizon, the book that introduced Shangri-La to the world in 1933. I read it in my early twenties, and it never left me.

Shangri-La is a mystical, timeless valley hidden high in the Tibetan mountains — a place of serene beauty and profound peace, where people live in harmony and age almost imperceptibly. It is a true sanctuary of deep stillness and gentle happiness.

Though the main character, Conway, was persuaded to leave Shangri-La, the moment he returned to the outside world, he was filled with a deep, unshakable longing to find his way back. I had the same feeling — a deep longing to return.

This is the power of well-crafted fiction — the ability to open a doorway to parallel realities. When we talk about writing fiction, we often think of it as inventing stories from imagination. But there’s another way to see it. Good fiction writers aren’t simply creating imaginary worlds out of nothing. They’re tuning into other concurrent realities. Most people assume that there is just one reality. But those on the spiritual path understand that existence has many layers. A skilled writer can attune to those layers. The world they write about is real in its own dimension.

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Death as Waking

When we understand that we are always living in spirit—that spirit is our natural home—we see death differently. The soul is not inside the body. It is the other way around. The body is in the soul. Earth life can be thought of as a creation made in physical form. We are experiencing it with other souls who have agreed to share the same dimension.

Each morning, when we wake up, it is not so much that we enter back into reality out of a dream, but that we shift between dimensions, exchanging one dream for another. The dream is not “unreal” in the sense of being invalid. From the perspective of the soul, it is entirely valid—100% real—because it brings lessons, experiences, and opportunities for growth, both for ourselves and for others. Even the most difficult experiences are chosen, for they contain the opportunity for tremendous growth.

Death is not an ending. It is a shifting of dreams, a changing of dimensions. The Earth dream is precious, valid, and chosen. When it concludes, we awaken once more into the larger reality of Spirit. From there, we continue—always alive, always creating, always home.

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Grief: Loss or Learning

When we lose someone deeply woven into the fabric of our lives—it could be a partner, a parent, a child, a sibling, or a close friend—grief is the natural human response. When lives have been intimately shared, their absence forces us to find a new way of being, sometimes at many different levels. 

For most people, the grieving process typically lasts one to three years. During that time, emotions rise and fall, and the experience can feel somewhat similar to depression—not in a negative sense, but as a turning inward. Grief asks us to withdraw, to reform ourselves, and to create a new life structure after something central has been taken away. Depression, when used positively, is a similar process. It is a reformulation of ourselves.

Your connection with your loved one is irreplaceable and unbroken. The question is how you wish to experience this human journey and whether you choose to allow grief to become a doorway into transformation and a deeper awareness of love.

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The Ones Who Come

The life of Cesar Millan, dog trainer extraordinaire, began far from the glossy world of television studios. As a young man, he crossed the border into the United States with almost nothing—no English, no money, only instinct. He worked as a dog groomer’s assistant in Los Angeles, but people soon noticed that when their pets were too difficult or aggressive for others, Cesar could handle them calmly.

The cases that built his reputation were the unmanageable Rottweilers, German shepherds, and other powerful breeds. Where others saw danger, he carried calm leadership. Just as Cesar’s success came not from the easy dogs but from the fierce ones that others feared or rejected, we do not choose who comes to us in life. We don’t handpick our companions, our students, our audience, or our circumstances. If we have something to give, those who need it will find us. They may not look like what we expected. But they are ours. 

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Inwards or Outwards: Preference and Purpose

At a certain stage of spiritual evolution, solitude arises naturally. It is not avoidance, but a way of keeping one’s field clear. Ordinary interaction can feel noisy, fear-driven, or self-reinforcing. Solitude restores clarity.

But not everyone at this stage of consciousness seeks solitude. Some are drawn into human fields because their life purpose is to serve, teach, or engage. Probably, more than half of seekers at this level find that their path requires long stretches of nature or withdrawal. The remaining are called outward. Their purpose demands a greater tolerance for and enjoyment of human interaction. The difference is not about higher or lower, but purpose.

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A Walk in the Park: The Company We Keep on the Spiritual Path

As you mature spiritually, the tendency toward solitude is very common. The reasons for this are:

  1. The field of the collective is keenly felt—you’re porous enough to be affected, even though you can hold steady for stretches.
  2. You’ve outgrown fear-driven socialising, so you don’t need interaction for validation or distraction.
  3. You seek resonance. As resonance is frequently absent in human situations, solitude feels like a better frequency match.

The question is not really whether we choose aloneness or togetherness, but what frequency we are vibrating at. If people are honest, most encounters with others are shaped by fear, by the need for reassurance, or by the desire to confirm a sense of self. These patterns are so common that they feel normal, but what is sought always fails to fulfil.

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Light Touch: The Frequency of Sex

What makes intimacy work?

  1. Self-acceptance. A person who accepts their own body can accept another’s. Without this, sex becomes a struggle with shame or resistance.
  2. Presence. You do not need spiritual knowledge to be present. You only need to be there—not lost in thought, not somewhere else.
  3. Equality. Sex needs to be an equal exchange, a shared creation. Both must feel that their experience matters—not as pretence, but in truth.
  4. Fearlessness. Fear closes the body. Trust opens it. When there is a sense that “however this unfolds, it’s alright,” the body relaxes and energy rises. Even if it doesn’t work, then that is the unfoldment. It is that way for a reason, usually to learn something valuable.
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It’s Your Choice

For many people, it feels like life is happening to them, but we choose, whether consciously or unconsciously, the reality we live in. We are the ones creating our reality. And we create it through our beliefs. If you investigate closely, you will see that you have adopted many deep-seated beliefs from family, society, religion, and other influences.

Beneath every surface belief lies a core belief, such as unworthiness, unlovability, and poor self-esteem. Changing core beliefs changes everything. You can choose which core beliefs are in line with the reality you want to experience. You can have a different reality by adopting a belief system that better serves you. We are trained to think that the reality we are clinging to is simply “how it is” and that we have no choice in the matter. You do have a choice, a very real choice. And if you choose differently, your whole life can change.

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The 4-book Nanima Series is Now Complete

The fourth and final book of the Nanima Series, The Flat, is now complete and available. It is deeply satisfying to finish not just The Flat, but the whole series, which has been a friend, confidant, and challenge for the past four years.

Spanning four deeply personal and spiritually rich books—Nanima, Geboor, Sonder, and The Flat—the series follows Maliyan, an insightful and grounded seeker whose path unfolds across the quiet towns and wild landscapes of rural Australia.

The first book, Nanima, was inspired by the rural area my family comes from in NSW, Australia. When I began writing the second book, Geboor, I moved from the city to country Victoria. It and the following books were shaped by the two rural towns I’ve lived in since then.

Alongside Maliyan are Luna—intuitive, witty, and playfully avoidant as he learns to love truly—and Bell-Bell, whose brilliance and volatility reflect the challenges of change and the yearning for wholeness.

The Nanima Series offers not just a story, but a spiritual companion. It invites you to walk the path of growth, to listen deeply to the land and your own spirit, and to remember that evolution is both quiet and profound. 

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