Alt Stage Six
An early concept artwork created for Stage Six of the personal-development model, later set aside as the official piece — illustrating how compartmentalized that stage is while still holding many interconnections.
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[Guided Meditation] Manifesting Struggle – Swimming Against Your River
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of recognizing when you are struggling against your river — distinguishing genuine effort from fruitless struggle and releasing a path that is not working to make space for a better one.
The Effect Of Financial Independence – The Real You
A reflection on what happens psychologically after reaching financial independence — how no longer needing anyone’s approval frees people to express their authentic selves, redefine how they spend their time, and pursue their true purpose.
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[Guided Meditation] Manifesting – A Comprehensive And Simple Guide
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of consciously manifesting — examining the honest emotional root behind a desire, healing negative roots first, then releasing the desire so the request can be fulfilled.
The Stages At Work – Connecting To Your Market And Following their Evolution
A business teaching on reading your market through the stages-of-development model — showing how customers with identical demographics buy differently depending on their current stage, and how to reach and anticipate their evolution.
Connecting To Your Partner Through Sexuality – Exploring Levels Of Orgasm
A tantric teaching describing five levels of orgasm available to the Yoni and the range of intensities available to the Vajra, framing sexual practice as a spiritual and energetic exploration rather than a goal-driven pursuit.
Orchid Vision
An artwork depicting a vision seen during the artist’s Reiki Master attunement — three white orchids opening against purple mist — which proved prophetic when the orchids in her kitchen window bloomed two weeks later.
Financial Independence – YOUR Magic Number
A practical guide to calculating your personal financial-independence number — defining the lifestyle you want, estimating its annual cost, and applying the 25x rule of thumb based on a four-percent safe withdrawal rate.
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[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Body – Sleep, Regeneration And Movement
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of caring for the body through sleep, regenerative activity and movement — addressing the deeper challenge of making self-care a genuine priority and honoring one’s independent needs.
The Stages At Work – Connecting To Your Boss
A workplace teaching on connecting with your manager through the stages-of-development model — reading which stage they arrive in and gently guiding them toward the mindset best suited to the work at hand.
Connecting To Your Partner Through Sexuality – The Experimentation Phase
A tantric teaching on the experimentation phase of a couple’s sexual practice — trying new things with radical honesty, developing a wordless sexual communication, and learning to read a partner’s body to deepen connection.
Black Hole And Universal Eye
An artwork exploring the idea that black holes may be gateways to other universes, drawing a visual parallel between a universe contained within a black hole and the all-seeing eye of a single cosmic consciousness.
The Nature and Effect of Financial Contentment
A reflection on financial contentment — the stage of being debt free and steadily saving for one’s dreams — describing its everyday feel, the move into investing, and its positive effects on relationships and wellbeing.
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[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Your Needs
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of connecting to your needs — honestly cataloging physical, mental, spiritual and professional needs across the body’s centers, and finding the strength to stand up for them without guilt.
Stages At Work – Connecting To Your Colleagues
A workplace teaching on connecting with colleagues — distinguishing friends, work-friends and colleagues — and using the stages-of-development model to help peers shift into the mindset their work requires while keeping conversation work-focused.
Connecting To Your Partner Through Sexuality – A New Tantra
An introduction to a new approach to tantra centered on connection through sexuality — challenging old restrictions, affirming female and male multi-orgasmic potential, and outlining the phases of an evolving daily sexual practice.
Universes Within Universes
An artwork exploring the idea of multiple universes — how one might be hidden inside another or lie unseen close by — and questioning how blind we really are to what exists within and around us.
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[Guided Meditation] Connecting To Experiences
A guided meditation for the Stage Two task of connecting to and releasing past experiences — extracting their lessons, viewing them in the third person, naming and releasing their emotions, and carrying only the changed self forward.
The Nature And Effect Of Being Debt Free
A reflection on the experience of becoming debt free — the surreal first month without payments, the initial splurge, and the shift into purposeful saving toward dreams and eventual financial independence.
[Guided Meditation] Trusting Your River
A guided meditation for the Stage One task of trusting the river of your life, or the divine — distinguishing what you can influence from what you cannot, and learning to let go and flow when the current is swift.
Choices Are The Only Thing We Make
A short teaching essay arguing that choice is the one thing we truly make — that every action begins with a choice of mindset, perception and feeling — and that we come to understand ourselves through the outcomes of our choices.
Venn Consciousness
An artwork depicting the interplay of human consciousness, the subconscious and the divine — shown as overlapping rectangles with the one consciousness radiating out to experience itself within each level.
Connecting To Your Partner – Grounding Each Other
A teaching on how partners ground each other — meeting a spun-up partner with calm presence, listening without interrupting, offering compassion when a situation cannot be fixed, and asking what they need.
Money Reflects How We See Ourselves
A teaching on how spending patterns mirror self-image — tracing how debt reflects unworthiness and gambling reflects powerlessness, how we model money behavior on our parents, and why getting out of debt is part of learning to love yourself.
[Guided Meditation] Trusting Yourself
A guided meditation supporting the Stage One task of trusting yourself, using breathwork and a body scan to distinguish true heart and gut intuition from the impulses of the ‘monkey mind’ so choices come from intuition rather than fear.