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 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 Stage Four teaching on building regular routines for caring for others’ needs and, more importantly, one’s own — mapping physical, emotional, spiritual, medical, and purpose-driven needs onto a daily and weekly calendar.
A Stage Three teaching that frames debt as a form of servitude and walks through Dave Ramsey’s debt-snowball method — listing every debt, cutting expenses to a strict spend plan, and paying off balances from smallest to largest.
A Stage Three teaching on connecting to feelings by naming emotions and tracing anger back to its root fear, and on sensing internal energy through body scanning, including early awareness of the chakras.
A Stage Three teaching on distinguishing true needs from wants by repeatedly asking why you think you need something, and on recognizing that while you have needs, you are more than them and have a purpose to offer.
A chakra-by-chakra guide to building complete connection with a romantic partner, moving from trust and grounding at the root through sexuality, individuality, love, truth, and intuition to shared transcendence at the crown.
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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.