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Between the Frames

Here is an enjoyable practice for you to try. It is based on the idea that reality is constantly moving through time frames. The purpose of this exercise is to slow the process down enough for us to notice. Once we notice it, we can play with it.

Stopping the Show

In your mind, choose a place you love and where you feel peaceful. It may be somewhere you know well or somewhere from your imagination. It could be a beach, a forest, a farm, a park, a favourite room, or anywhere else that feels enjoyable to you. 

Spend a few moments looking around and noticing the details. Notice the people, weather, trees, buildings, colours, sounds, and movement. Allow the scene to become vivid and alive.

Now imagine that everything stops, but you.  

You remain aware and can still move, observe, and explore. But everything else stops completely. If you are at a beach, a seagull may be frozen in mid-flight, a dog may be suspended in the air as it jumps through the waves, children building sandcastles may be frozen in place, and grains of sand may hang motionless as they fall from a bucket. 

Walk through the scene and examine it closely. Look at the details. Become completely certain that everything has stopped. 

Cranking the Projector

Then, when you are ready, allow movement to return, but only a tiny amount. A wing moves slightly. A wave swells a little. A grain of sand falls a little further. A person takes the smallest part of a step.

Allow another tiny movement, and then another. Continue in this way for a while. 

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Consciousness Continuing: Many Lives in One

This is the opening chapter of Consciousness Continuing, the second book in the Consciousness Series. The first book of the series, Consciousness Rising, was published in October 2025. This chapter explores the experience of living many lives within one lifetime.

Consciousness does not improve itself over time. It relocates into realities where different versions of itself are viable.

Chapter 1: Many Lives in One

I have long felt that I’ve lived many lifetimes inside one life. I felt it before I ever heard words like parallel realities or shifting timelines, long before I encountered teachings about reality shifts. It is a lived experience. Entire worlds have closed behind me, and new ones opened — sometimes abruptly, sometimes over the space of several years — but always completely. 

My life feels less like a single story and more like a series of distinct realities, each with its own version of me. Perhaps you feel this way too, even if you don’t yet have the language for it.

I’ll describe my major shifts here, as they may help you recognise your own.

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The Voice that Doesn’t Belong to You

Getting Nowhere Fast

Many people who are already on a path of personal or spiritual development are clear about what they want. They’ve made that choice. They want to feel happier and more at ease in themselves. They want abundance to flow. They want work that feels right, relationships that are nourishing, and a sense of inner freedom rather than constant anxiety or self-doubt.

And yet, despite that clarity, something keeps pulling them back. Progress doesn’t seem to move in the way they expect, or at the pace they would like. Old patterns reappear. Familiar struggles return. Sometimes they find themselves making choices they already know don’t serve them, and afterwards they’re left wondering why they did it again when they could see, perfectly well, where they wanted to go.

This can be confusing and often discouraging, especially when someone feels they are doing “the right things” and that they genuinely want change.

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Spirituality — Spoken or Felt

Spoken Spirituality

Some spiritual teachings and teachers help us understand ourselves by giving us words and concepts. Their teachings often feel emotionally supportive, intellectually reassuring, and foundational. People like to share them, talk about them, and say, “Yes, this is me too. This is what I believe.”

Well-known teachers who work in this way include Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Marianne Williamson. Their work helps people orient themselves, reflect, and build language for what is happening and where they are headed.

Spiritual teachings that work through ideas and explanations tend to suit cultures and people who like to talk things through, define themselves, and understand where they stand — the Western world. These teachings travel well through books (especially socially-sanctioned best-sellers), in discussion, and via social media sharing. They give people meaningful spiritual language that they can use to identify themselves.

Felt Spirituality

Other spiritual teachings help us to feel our way back into ourselves. Much is left unsaid. Not a lot is explained. They don’t give us many concepts to hold onto. Instead, they work through tone, presence, vibration, and silence. Often we can’t easily say what they’ve done — only that something has softened or changed inside us.

This kind of spirituality is less often shared or discussed because it doesn’t give us language to stand on. It asks us to be without explanation. There is no position to take, no insight to display, no sense of progress to claim. That can feel unsettling. But for some, it feels like home.

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Enanika: Visionary Fiction—The Roof of the World

In Chapters 8 and 9 of Enanika, Anu is drawn far beyond the quiet streets of Milkwood into one of the most ancient spiritual landscapes on Earth — Tibet, the roof of the world. At the Hermitage of Ling-Shi-La and later at the Sanctuary of Zamsar, she encounters a living spiritual lineage that once shaped, and still shapes, the energetic evolution of Earth. These chapters move between worlds — Milkwood and the Himalayas, present and past — revealing doorways into the sacred. While the Hermitage offers transmission, the Sanctuary offers a love story.