spiritual books – Donna Goddard

August 2, 2026August 2, 2026

The Storytellers: Galactic Neighbourhood

I have been making progress on The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series). Here are Chapters 10-13, which explore not being alone as we think in our endless skies.

Chapter 10: Our Local Stellar Neighbourhood

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.”

July 4, 2026July 4, 2026

Window Shopping for Lives

Some people are forever on the verge of changing their lives. Except they never actually get to the point of making the change.

Serial Lives

They’re sure they’re meant to move to the coast. They spend months looking at houses, researching suburbs, finding cafes, exploring walking tracks, and imagining where their furniture would go. They can smell the sea air and feel themselves living there. Then they don’t move.

Six months later, they’re immersed in the energy of country living. They’re researching cottages, gardens, fireplaces, and quiet country towns. Then it’s an apartment in the inner city. Then a tiny home. Then a farm. Then travelling Australia in a caravan. Each new direction feels completely real while they’re inside it, yet nothing changes physically.

Other people do the same thing with careers. They become completely absorbed in the energy of becoming a psychologist, a teacher, a writer, a chef, an artist, a healer, or a business owner. They investigate courses, read books, join online groups, watch interviews, and imagine themselves living that life. Then they don’t change careers.

Others do it with interests and hobbies. They become fascinated with learning a language, writing a novel, buying a horse, studying astronomy, or travelling the world. Then it passes.

Some do it with relationships. They explore the energy of an entirely different life with an entirely different partner. Most choose not to tell their current partner about that one. After all, consciousness is free to explore without having to drag everyone else into the experiment or fill out divorce papers. Maybe they fantasise about having no relationship at all. They throw themselves completely into that reality before moving on.

People like this often judge themselves negatively, as fickle, unmotivated, or indecisive. They may tell themselves that they never follow through, that they lose interest too quickly, or that they always start things they never finish. Other people might agree with that assessment. Sometimes it is true, and the person needs to investigate their unconscious beliefs. But sometimes, something entirely different is happening.

June 14, 2026June 14, 2026

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.

June 11, 2026June 12, 2026

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.

June 2, 2026June 10, 2026

The Missing Years

Here are the next few chapters of Book 2 of the Enanika Series.

Enlan was angry and hurt that Anu stayed away for six years. We find out why.

Chapter 3: New Anu

In Enanika:

Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.

Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, “Goodbye, my love.”

She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began.

May 31, 2026May 31, 2026

Many Moments: Higher Mind Reminders is Now Available!

I’m very happy to share with you that Many Moments is now available.

It’s the sort of book you can give as a gift, keep on your bedside table or kitchen bench, or leave beside your favourite chair. It’s easy to read but very helpful for lifting your spirits and reminding you of your higher-self path.

Each page contains a beautiful contemplative image paired with a short reflective piece designed to give you a small but meaningful moment of clarity and reconnection.

May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

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.

February 12, 2026April 25, 2026

Cake and Courage

One of the major reality shifts I described in my last post — leaving my first marriage — contained a very ordinary moment. Yet, three decades later, I still remember it clearly. So it can’t have been that small.

The marriage involved a considerable amount of money. I needed a property settlement lawyer, so I went into the city. At thirty-three, I didn’t understand what a property settlement was or how it worked. In fact, I had no idea what would happen or what I might be entitled to. For all I knew, I could walk away with nothing. I had two young children to raise, and I wasn’t working outside the home.

I went to the lawyer, and we discussed some initial details, but it was only a first visit. I still didn’t understand what was going to happen. The lawyer’s office was in an elegant building. When the meeting finished, I went downstairs to a cafe. It was the kind of place that feels expensive — and is. I ordered a cup of tea and a piece of cake. An expensive cup of tea. An expensive piece of cake.

February 1, 2026April 25, 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.

January 27, 2026April 13, 2026

Enanika: Anu Answering to Anna

Enanika is the visionary fiction I’m currently writing. Enanika follows Anu, a female from an advanced planet that resembles Earth. She comes here on a mission and must live within the density of our dimensions while maintaining her Nanik consciousness.

Alongside her is Enlan, also from Enanika. Unlike Anu, he adapts quickly to life on Earth. He works, relates, and lives as people do here. They were not meant to be on Earth at the same time — yet life had other plans.