An audience-question answer explaining that maintaining connection to the divine depends on first maintaining every other layer of connection — to experience, body, mind, needs, others, ideology, questioning, and purpose — sustained through daily habits of sleep, exercise, nutrition, meditation, and service.
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 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 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 Two exercise in identifying and honoring personal needs across physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven categories, with guidance on examining unhealthy needs and revising the list as life and self evolve.
A first-person account of the author’s Reiki attunement through levels one and two, describing sessions with her Reiki master, the emotional experience of attunement, and practicing hands-on energy healing on herself and her dog.
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.
A teaching on the river metaphor for life, blending fate and free will, explaining how flowing toward your purpose makes life easier, and offering an exercise in appreciating and releasing formative experiences to build trust.
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.
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.
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.
An essay on self-sabotage, exploring why humans carry both a drive for growth and an inner voice pulling toward mediocrity, weighing evolutionary and psychological explanations and concluding that whichever tendency we feed grows stronger.
A reflective essay naming ‘spiritual fatigue,’ the exhaustion that often follows intense self-development work, and arguing for balancing periods of deep examination with simply living, while staying guarded against relapse into self-sabotage.
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.
A practical essay on distinguishing an impulse you will later regret from a genuine soul ‘compelling,’ offering rules of thumb, especially that anything rushed or involving spending money is usually impulse rather than intuitive guidance.
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.
A contemplative essay on the balance between oneness and aloneness, framing separateness as a necessary phase of the developmental journey that prepares the inner work leading to later stages of connection and unity.
A large curated collection of self-reflection questions covering feelings, values, purpose, fears, habits, relationships and self-talk, offered as prompts for self-development and life integration and meant to be worked through only a few at a time.
A practical guide offering several methods for discovering your unique purpose or mission — including free-flow writing, the four-way intersections exercise, skills assessments, and quiet meditative listening — with the reminder that your purpose will not resemble anyone else’s.
A teaching piece on manifestation and purpose, arguing that struggle is a signal the universe is blocking something counter to your path, and that recognizing and trusting that resistance helps you make choices aligned with your true purpose.
A gospel-blues original song, with full chords and lyrics, about the certain feeling that wonderful things are coming — written the morning of the author’s 2016 birthday — and about openly welcoming that unknown good as a return to one’s true self.
A step-by-step guide to manifesting: choosing what to attract, writing it by hand, feeling and acting on inner guidance, plus warnings about manifesting from fear versus love and the difference between influence and control.
An overview essay aligning the developmental research of Kegan, Fowler and others into a single eleven-stage cycle spanning social, religious and spiritual growth, described as a circle we travel repeatedly rather than a staircase we climb.
A candid photograph of the author’s friend Paul, well known among guitarists, intended to capture the loneliness of a gifted person surrounded by others and the unpretentious personal space of a great mind.
A raw existential essay, prompted by a birthday, on the temporary and evolving nature of self and world, the absence of inherent purpose, and the conclusion that life may be best treated as a game or vacation worth lightening up about.