Here’s where I write and share the essence of Self-Knowledge uncovered through Self-Inquiry. I do it to help you notice the invisible, yet unmistakable forces operating under the surface of our attention.
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Reflections on daily living for those who suspect there’s more to life than what we’ve been told. I write for those who are tired of chasing and ready to remember. Each one offers a different mirror to reflect the same truth.
I wrote A Letter from Zaheer as weekly reflections, exploring the surface of this awakening. I longed for clarity and peace. I found it by writing and sharing. These letters help you to remember what was never broken.
I spent the last decade researching Consciousness through the lens of different domains: neuroscience, indigenous wisdom, physics, psychology, quantum mechanics, religions, biology, statistics, and more. These deep, investigative articles reflect my integrated understanding and an expression of my lived experience.
The paradox of awakening
My journey has been, and continues to be, paradoxical: intense and remarkable, yet calm and ordinary at the same time.
I share this knowledge because it feels less like mine and more like a gift that wants to move. And there is a quiet deep joy in seeing people realize who they truly are and remember what it feels like to be whole.
If you’re a thoughtful, high-achieving human who has done “everything right” and still feels a subtle ache, this space is for you.
Everything here exists to help you see through the noise of your mind, so you can live with a quieter nervous system, a peaceful mind, and a softer, more joyful experience of life.
I attempt to capture the essence in different pieces I write, narrate or produce. They are all pointers to the same truth. You’ve heard similar things before, and probably dismissed them. Or put off investigating them until now.
The shift only happens when you slow down enough for your scattered attention to come home, to become whole. From that relaxed, alert place, what hides in plain sight becomes blindingly obvious.
This gap between the pointer and reality reflects a chasm that only you can cross; no one else can step through the doorway between knowing intellectually and understanding experientially.
This opportunity, right here, right now, this moment is what you’ve worked so hard to realize. Now you’re here, don’t waste it.
If you have any questions or comments, I welcome them in the spirit of awakening hearts and minds.
This is an oasis, a place for peace and rest.
Treat it as your own.
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Selected Works
luma 
luma is an all ages book I wrote and illustrated. A story about remembering what can’t be lost.
I wrote it for us.
To share with our children and the inner child still alive in each of us.
Every page is an invitation to return to your true essence that sits beneath the striving.
Read the digital version here and order your printed copy directly from us here.
About the Pursuit of Happiness“I wrote this for my children.
The expression of my decade-long journey to understand happiness.
Fuelled by love’s desire to spare them unnecessary suffering.
Tempered by understanding that each life journey is unique and will play out as it must.
Grounded in a universal insight” … (cont’d here)
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The Mirror
Reflections for the high-achiever and curious seeker who suspects there’s something more.
I write these for those who are tired of chasing and ready to remember.
Each one offers a different mirror to reflect the same truth.
A Letter from Zaheer
I wrote A Letter from Zaheer as weekly reflections, exploring the surface of this awakening.
I longed for clarity and peace. I found it by writing and sharing.
These letters helped me remember what was never broken.
Investigating Consciousness
Part 1:
The Tinted Lens: An Investigation into the Layers of Consciousness
What if the truth about consciousness is masked by a veil we don’t notice until suffering or success breaks us open?
Like most people, I was unaware of what I had ignored. Until my life unravelled in front of my eyes and suddenly I was on a different track. I spent the last decade researching Consciousness through the lens of different domains: neuroscience, indigenous wisdom, physics, psychology, quantum mechanics, religions, biology, statistics, and more.
This is Part 1 in a series to share what I’ve learned and help prop open the door for your exploration. → Read on to learn how our individual self-consciousness masks a shared universal consciousness, and why our suffering is the key to unlocking clarity to see the truth.
Part 2:
How does language secretly embed a conceptual operating system that traps us in a false identity?
My investigation into consciousness turned up a few surprises. But I wasn’t quite prepared for this one.
It challenged the foundation of what I knew… or what I thought I knew.
My investigation into Consciousness revealed its many apparent layers… investigating language uncovered the unconscious tools and mechanisms we use to keep these imagined layers intact.
Like a blanket we draw tighter around ourselves to shield ourselves from the cold, not realizing that it’s threadbare and full of holes.
Grammar, the structure of language, is not a neutral medium. It carries a hidden operating system that conditions how we perceive reality, how we narrate our experience, and even how we identify ourselves as a separate self.
In short: language carries a worldview. It quietly embeds a mirage of individual identity and a fabricated frame of time, causality, and separation. To liberate ourselves, we must become fluent not only in language, but in the grammar of being that underlies it.
This is Part 2 in a series to share what I’ve learned about Consciousness and help deepen your exploration.
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