A candid personal essay on relapsing into martyrdom — how a season of family saving hardened into unnecessary self-sacrifice — and how recognizing the fall back to Stage Three, then reconnecting from Stage One forward, restores balance.
A personal essay on how creativity flows freely in Stages Eight and higher but stalls in earlier stages — tracing how the demands of marketing a finished book, album, and art pulled the author back to Stage Six, and how questioning those rules restored the flow.
A personal essay on parenting teenagers into independence — describing the swirling chaos of the final year at home and urging parents to let go: stop advising unasked, stop projecting their own regrets, and let a child spin into their own becoming.
The satire half of a photography project mocking social media’s obsession with staged, unrealistic self-images — an over-the-top series (ball gown, jewelry, filters) that unexpectedly blurred the line between staged and real as the author actually performed each absurd scene.
The documentary half of a photography project — a black-and-white series showing the author’s ordinary day (grocery lists, meditation, playing with her dog) and reflecting on how a freely self-directed life is less normal, and less boring, than it seems.
A teaching essay arguing that your greatest strength and greatest weakness are two sides of one coin — because whatever your current definition of self makes you focus on becomes strong, while its opposite atrophies — and how mindful balance dissolves both.
A project page for LastingPeace.org, a free online personal-development roadmap and mentorship tree based on the book Purna Asatti — designed to help anyone, anywhere find more peace and a better life at no cost.
A project page for the light, quick-reference edition of Purna Asatti — summarizing the basics of each of the eleven stages and the twelve-year research behind the roadmap, and pointing readers to the full hardback for detailed exercises, art, and poetry.
A project page for the full book Purna Asatti — the author’s origin story of waking up at 31, and the twelve-year, fifty-source synthesis that became an eleven-stage roadmap to self-understanding and a better life through complete connection.
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A video for the Connection Mix from the album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection — a 28-minute instrumental journey through all eleven stages, paired with each stage’s conceptual art and an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, made for meditation, yoga, Reiki, and deep work.
The Meditation Mix from Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection — a 28-minute instrumental with vocals removed, designed to accompany meditation, yoga, Reiki, and deep work while pairing with the stages-of-connection book.
An overview of Kathryn Colleen’s album Purna Asatti: Music For Complete Connection, describing its Meditation Mix, a Connection Mix journeying through eleven stages, individual stage tracks, an indiscernible Sanskrit chant, and where the record was written and recorded.
A description of the Stage Eleven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, using color symbolism — altered consciousness, intuition, self, energy — to convey the dissolution of separateness into pure creative energy at the journey’s most foundational point.
A description of The Notes Project, a public art project in which uplifting handwritten question-cards, backed by artwork, are left for strangers to find — intended to spark surprise, joy, and a moment of self-connection in everyday life.
A description of the Stage Ten mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where the truth of self recognizes itself as the one consciousness within all things — a profound, near-religious realization still encapsulated within the physical body.
A description of the Stage Nine mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where recognizing oneself as a consciousness within the body takes on a divine quality, yielding focused intuition and a felt connection to others as fellow consciousnesses.
A description of the Stage Eight mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model — the comfort of complete organization, where people, ideologies, experiences, and the true self connect into a coherent whole while remaining at peace with what is still unknown.
A description of the Stage Seven mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model — the chaos of once-certain reality falling apart, where questioning and breakdown open onto the promise of freedom, the true self, the divine, and trust in intuition.
A description of the Stage Six mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where rigid ideology begins to share space more equally with the true self, the divine, and emerging energy, while others are still seen mainly through their experiences.
A description of the Stage Five mandala from the Purna Asatti stages model, where ideology dominates entirely — a black hole absorbing others, experiences, and needs — leaving the true self, the divine, and freedom captive to a rigid worldview craving validation.
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.