A description of the Stage Four mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the individual first notices that others have needs too — experiences radiating outward to bring awareness of others — in a stage that feels satisfied but faintly smug.
A description of the Stage Three mandala (I Am My Needs) from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the true self and the divine are pushed aside as body, experiences, and needs swirl into a self-centered vortex of craving and attachment.
A collection of eleven poems, one for each stage of the Purna Asatti journey, gathered in order in a single place — the same verses found in the book, tracing the movement from separateness and need through chaos to divine connection.
A teaching on sustaining the later stages of the Purna Asatti journey by actively seeking complete connection — with yourself, others, this moment, and your purpose — while tending to needs, ideology, and self without becoming attached to them.
A Stage Eleven exercise from the Purna Asatti journey using the physics of energy and matter — that atoms are almost entirely empty space — to guide the reader into an altered state where physical objects seem to dissolve into pure energy.
A Stage Ten exercise from the Purna Asatti journey for identifying the situations, habits, and people that disconnect you — from yourself, others, and the present — and designing an environment that helps you return to connection quickly.
A Stage Ten teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on recognizing yourself as both physical body and the one consciousness, and on the influence — not control — you gain to manifest experiences, people, and opportunities aligned with your purpose.
A Stage Ten teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on accessing higher wisdom beyond intuition — becoming still to receive divine guidance and sense the presence of guides who help steer you toward your purpose.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey guiding the reader to feel what it is to be other people, places, and things, and to consider that all are extensions of one consciousness shaped by local environments, like rivers and oceans of one body of water.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on gathering the skills and knowledge your purpose requires, breaking large goals into small daily steps, and quieting the inner negative voice that resists any effort to grow.
A Stage Nine teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on presence, mindfulness, and intuition — observing surroundings as a detached Silent Observer, connecting with the energy of a group and space, and letting intuitive answers about the present moment arise.
A description of the Stage Two mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the divine recedes and the true self sends forth scattered experiences — some encapsulated, some not — etched into the body, with the golden ratio depicting how experiences arrive.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on energetically connecting with others to sense their emotions, intentions, and current stage — a practice for understanding people, protecting yourself, and offering help to those quietly struggling.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on designing your ideal life once your ideology is principle-based and ego has quieted — being specific and honest across every area, researching what each element requires, and manifesting from positive emotion.
A Stage Eight teaching from the Purna Asatti journey on finding the common truths beneath all religions and political ideologies by looking past specific rules to shared principles and their emotional roots, deepening tolerance and connection to others.
A description of the Stage One artwork from the Purna Asatti stages model, decoding its colors and symbolism: dark red as the one true-self consciousness, teal as the divine manifested into physical form, and gold as the higher intuition intending to manifest, evoking the Big Bang as birth.
A Stage Seven exercise for identifying limiting beliefs absorbed from parents, peers, and society, then replacing or completing them with supportive beliefs and repeating those daily to retrain the mind over the course of a month or more.
A Stage Seven practice for recognizing and healing emotional scars formed by the amygdala’s survival responses, using mindfulness, repeated self-inquiry, and journaling or counseling to trace present-day fears to their childhood origins and release them.
A Stage Seven teaching on questioning every belief — religious, political, social, and personal — to form one’s own interpretations, while managing the relational strain this causes and delaying major life changes until the questioning settles.
A Stage Seven teaching that reframes questioning one’s religion or faith — the dark night of the soul — as a natural, private exploration that can deepen rather than destroy belief and bring one into a closer relationship with the divine.
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving and accepting others — even those who wronged you — as flawed humans, releasing grudges to free your time and attention, while still taking practical steps to protect yourself from genuine danger.
A Stage Six exercise for seeing every person — liked or disliked — as a reflection of some past, present, or future aspect of yourself, and for consciously connecting to the divine light within each one to deepen compassion.
A Stage Six teaching on breaking the trance of unworthiness seeded in early childhood, learning to feel the divine light of love within, and becoming the unconditionally loving parent-figure for oneself.
A Stage Six teaching on connecting to the body by setting specific, measurable, attainable goals for nutrition, exercise, and overall wellbeing, breaking them into weekly and daily milestones and celebrating progress along the way.
A Stage Six teaching on forgiving oneself for past regrets and accepting one’s ongoing humanity — seeing the earlier self with compassion, learning from mistakes, and designing the future instead of reliving the past.