Parallel Realities – Donna Goddard

February 4, 2026February 5, 2026

Enanika: Close Call

Here are the next chapters of Enanika. They are the last chapters of Part 1, and the last ones to be shared until Enanika is published later in 2026. You can currently read all of Part 1 here.

Chapter 17: The Falls

When Anu woke, she stood and moved with ease. Her body, she realised, was unnoticeable — as young bodies generally are.

After several weeks of being sixty-six-year-old Anna, she had returned to thirty-three-year-old Anu during the night.

Which was just as well, because she and Enlan had decided to go back to Fat Cow Falls that day. Enlan had been feeling very Earthbound and hoped he could connect with Enanika again in the pool. The cliff would be far easier for Anu to navigate than Anna.

“Have you lost something?” Enlan asked when they met at the entrance to the falls.

Anu frowned slightly and tilted her head.

“No. I don’t think so.”

He smiled, waiting. “A few years, maybe.”

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026

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.

November 3, 2025January 21, 2026

Enanika: Visionary Fiction—The Marketplace

🌍✨ A new story begins…

It’s always an exciting moment to begin a new story.
Here is the start of my new fiction series, Enanika.
It carries the same mystical, otherworldly tone as the Waldmeer Series—yet it’s set in a completely different world. 🌿🕊️

In the opening chapter of Enanika, we meet Anu in her natural world — a peaceful, advanced planet where telepathy is normal, harmony is effortless, and daily life moves with an inner hum of presence.

Chapter 1: The Marketplace

Moving with untroubled ease through the open-air market, Anu’s short chestnut bob brushed just above her shoulders. Sunlight caught her blue eyes, clear as the surface of a calm mountain lake.

Anu was thirty-three.

On Enanika, age does not carry the same weight as it does on Earth. Time is not something accumulated so much as something moved within. Even so, there is a specialness about thirty-three in both worlds. On Earth, it marks the settling of adulthood, when certain things — for good or bad — begin to solidify. On Enanika, it is also a threshold: a time when what had been practised, learned, and played with can now be lived, explored, and embodied in new, profound, and challenging ways. It is a gateway.

September 19, 2025October 13, 2025

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.