A personal essay tracing the author’s lifelong shame back to a childhood moment of hiding her artistic, expressive self to win approval, arguing that shame arises from denying your own truth rather than from others’ words.
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 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 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.