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 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 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 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 Four teaching on defining your ideology — writing out beliefs about religion, politics, morality, and life, examining why you hold each one, then distilling them into a prioritized set of guiding principles for better decisions.
A short essay arguing that every religion began with a founder’s genuine insight, that later worship of founders often contradicts their wisdom, and that studying all traditions reveals the same underlying truth beneath them.
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A personal, reflective essay on experimenting with Tantra, comparing eastern and western approaches, critiquing their individual focus, and proposing a new Tantra centered on complete energetic connection between two partners rather than personal enlightenment alone.
A philosophical essay tracing how our sense of self evolves through stages of ideology toward ‘there is no self,’ warning against becoming trapped in identifying with our beliefs, and questioning why we look to spiritual and religious ideologies to tell us how to live.
A personal essay on the author’s discomfort with religion, growing up between Methodist and Southern Baptist relatives, and how the same texts are used to justify both love and hate — while sensing a shared truth buried beneath historical context.
A teaching essay arguing that religion and science are complementary conduits to truth, and that faith can be a powerful vehicle for spiritual self-development — moving from identifying with our needs or ideologies toward seeing ourselves as children of the divine.