Apr 26, 2023
The project page for the annotated 1932 edition of “The Subconscious Speaks,” a short, practical manual on using the subconscious mind, with added notes comparing its ideas to Joe Dispenza, Esther Hicks, and the philosopher Hermes.
Mar 25, 2019
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.
Mar 6, 2019
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.
Mar 4, 2019
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.
Feb 11, 2019
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.
Jan 5, 2019
An essay on why family can so easily trigger old subconscious baggage during holiday gatherings, offering mindfulness and healthy boundaries — including choosing distance — as the main defenses, and distinguishing supportive family from mere blood relation.
Dec 9, 2018
A Stage Three teaching on connecting to sexuality through mind, body, and energy — examining beliefs and past experiences, honoring current needs, and using breath and attention to feel and move sexual energy alone or with a partner.
Dec 4, 2018
A Stage Ten thought experiment using quantum physics and the observer effect to argue that a single sentient consciousness underlies all reality, exploring how the first consciousness could have arisen and why individuals seem to have separate minds.
Dec 1, 2018
A teaching essay arguing that expectation, of ourselves and others, is a device for validating a constructed sense of self, and that recognizing there is no fixed self can free us from the stress of the whole cycle.
Nov 24, 2018
A teaching on recognizing the silent observer within, the aware self that watches thoughts, body, and energy, distinguishing it from mind and body, and using that vantage point to consciously direct one’s life.
Nov 22, 2018
A practical menu of prayer and meditation forms, from gratitude and contemplation to breath focus, resting in silence, and manifestation techniques, offered so readers can experiment and build their own optimized routine.
Nov 14, 2018
A teaching on trusting the silent observer and intuition by distinguishing genuine inner guidance from impulsive ‘monkey mind,’ using a review of past choices to build evidence that your true self can be relied upon.
Nov 12, 2018
A teaching on Complete Connection that urges meeting difficult experiences, fear, attachment, loss, disease, with compassion rather than avoidance, acknowledging them as integral parts of being human so they can dissipate.
Nov 10, 2018
A personal reflection sparked by a seven-week kitchen renovation on how physical chaos pushes us into survival mode, and why a place of peace and order is essential for growth, creativity, and self-development.
Oct 22, 2018
A personal recommendation of spaced-repetition flashcard apps for long-term learning, describing how the author uses them to study languages, music, dance, and life philosophy, and why spaced review outperforms daily rote practice.
Oct 21, 2018
A teaching on how numerous simultaneous commitments crowd our limited attention, explaining why related efforts share mental space while unrelated ones fragment it, and suggesting we prune the types of things we take on.
Oct 20, 2018
A teaching on how rituals, ceremonies, body postures, and hand gestures create and reinforce meaning, marking life transitions and focusing the mind, with encouragement to design personal rituals for meditation, prayer, and growth.
Oct 19, 2018
A teaching on treating time and attention as our only nonrenewable resources, making activities and people compete for them, and using an 80/20 analysis to reclaim space for self-development and purpose.
Oct 17, 2018
A teaching distinguishing unattainable perfection, an endless comparison to an imaginary final state, from ‘amazing,’ a here-and-now assessment against pre-set criteria, arguing we should pursue defined, attainable excellence rather than perfectionism.
Oct 16, 2018
The foundational teaching defining Purna Asatti, or complete connection: connecting fully to self, others, and reality across every aspect of being, mapped to the chakras, and reframing tantra as enlightenment through connection rather than sexuality alone.
Oct 10, 2018
An essay responding to Dr. Mariano Sigman’s semantic-analysis research on when human introspection emerged, arguing that the capacity for inner reflection long predated the writings of roughly 500-400 BC and that introspection remains a deliberate choice.
Oct 1, 2018
An introductory roadmap to self-development presenting the author’s model of universal stages of human growth, synthesized from Kegan, Fowler, and others, framed as the guide she wished she had when her own journey began at thirty-one.
Sep 28, 2018
A reflective essay on cultivating boredom, arguing that unstructured, phone-free quiet time creates the mental space for creativity, big questions, and self-understanding that constant digital stimulation crowds out.
Sep 11, 2018
An essay on the neuroscience of reading people, drawing on research that a tuned-in listener or reader mirrors the brain patterns of a speaker or writer, and concluding that voice and text transmit a person’s state of mind.
May 31, 2018
A practical, personal walkthrough of a belief-retraining process: identifying stressors, writing corrective perspectives for each, and distilling them into daily affirmations read for a month to replace limiting beliefs with healthier mindsets and behaviors.