Category: healing and spirituality

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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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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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Master of Me: Meditations

Master of Me: Meditations is for spiritual seekers, seers, and teachers. We are all all of them. We are all seekers, though we may not know what we seek. We are all seers, though we may be looking through a murky window. And we are all teachers to someone. Naturally, the quality of our seeking, seeing, and teaching improves with our growth, but that is simply a matter of time (although, in actuality, the soul knows neither time nor space). Once you become acquainted with the meditative state of mind, it will tend to stick around. After a while, you become inseparable from and deeply in love with the consciousness of love, which underlies all authentic meditative practices. You become a walking, talking meditation yourself. 

Playlist of Meditations on YouTube

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Virtual-Voice AI-Narrated Audiobooks

Over the last four years, I have narrated and turned many of my books into audiobooks. I am now in the process of turning the rest of them into audiobooks via Amazon’s new beta, virtual-voice AI technology. Because the technology is new, you can only buy the virtual-voice-narrated audiobooks via Amazon US. My human-narrated books are available in most countries through Amazon Audible and other audio channels.

The virtual voice I am using has an Australian accent (like me) but lacks emotion and the transfer of spiritual energy. At first, I was not interested in virtual voice for these reasons. However, someone pointed out that they prefer virtual voice because they like to add their own emotion. So, I changed my mind—it’s an experiment.

Listening to audiobooks is an easy way of “reading” and is time-efficient. You can multitask—listen and drive, walk, run, or go to sleep. It is also a powerful way of connecting with an author. It helps the listener to grow in a natural, almost unnoticed way. Although we can read broadly for education and entertainment purposes, when it comes to effective spiritual work, the best approach is to focus intently on the work of a teacher we are drawn to. You can read endless words about spiritual matters that have no substantial impact on your progress, but everyone makes progress when they intensely dedicate their time, at least for certain periods, to the teachers they are drawn to. In this vein, my audiobooks are offered. They contain the foundational elements of truth, and I’m confident they will have a healing and uplifting impact. 

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Master of Me: Meditations—OUT NOW

Master of Me: Meditations is for spiritual seekers, seers, and teachers. We are all all of them. We are all seekers, though we may not know what we seek. We are all seers, though we may be looking through a murky window. And we are all teachers to someone. Naturally, the quality of our seeking, seeing, and teaching improves with our growth, but that is simply a matter of time (although, in actuality, the soul knows neither time nor space). Once you become acquainted with the meditative state of mind, it will tend to stick around. After a while, you become inseparable from and deeply in love with the consciousness of love, which underlies all authentic meditative practices. You become a walking, talking meditation yourself. LEARN MORE

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Mystery Meditation

This new 8-minute mystery meditation can help expand your consciousness and break boundaries within your mind. One of the main problems in our world is that people think they “know” things. They think they know themselves, other people, and how the world works. People who think this way generally know very little. Those who know more understand how little they actually know. Being aware of the mystery of life is a forerunner to knowing anything of substance.

Master of Me: Meditations is for spiritual seekers, seers, and teachers. We are all all of them. We are all seekers, though we may not know what we seek. We are all seers, though we may be looking through a murky window. And we are all teachers to someone. Naturally, the quality of our seeking, seeing, and teaching improves with our growth, but that is simply a matter of time (although, in actuality, the soul knows neither time nor space). Once you become acquainted with the meditative state of mind, it will tend to stick around. After a while, you become inseparable from and deeply in love with the consciousness of love, which underlies all authentic meditative practices. You become a walking, talking meditation yourself. 

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Playlist of More Meditations