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PrefaceThese notes trace the reverberations of a single current—the living movement between emptiness and form, stillness and becoming.Through the centuries it has surfaced under many names: Tao, Christ, Sophia, Self, the Ground, the Field.Each ent...
1 IntroductionIn my recent essay, On the Threshold of the Whole, I explored the meeting place between being and non-being—the living aperture through which the universe becomes aware of itself. But vision alone does not complete the circle. The thr...
Sometimes a moment of resonance arrives from many directions at once—as if the same creative current were surfacing through different minds, each sensing the pulse of a new beginning. In recent months I’ve felt this through several converging met...
A Larger StageAs I start to write this essay, it is less than twenty-four hours since Anne and I had our conversation with Layman Pascal, exploring The Space Between Us and the emergence of the field that underlies it, and already new ideas are sprin...
“When you meet another soul, you awaken something within your own soul.”— John O’DonohueThis essay emerged from an enquiry as I prepared for a conversation with Layman Pascal (The Integral Stage podcast) about my book The Space Between Us. Th...
The Razor’s Edge of WitnessingIn recent weeks, as the horror in Gaza continues to unfold, I found myself caught in a paradox I could not easily resolve. On Facebook, a post on 27 August 2025 by Anne Sweet sparked a fierce and heartfelt exchange. Ja...
From the very beginning, human beings have asked the question: Why am I here?It is a genuine and primordial inquiry—one that arises naturally in the heart. But in most of us, it is quickly hijacked by the ego. The ego turns it into a survival proje...
PrologueI vividly remember being an angst-ridden teen, just finding my feet at university and questioning why I was here—as in, alive. It was a soul-searching “Why me? What did I do to deserve this?” As if being alive was some sort of punishmen...
 Meditation remains a key element of my daily life—no longer a strategic part of the desperate search for inner resolution (that has fallen away), but as a natural expression of the deep stillness that radiates from the centre of my being.I re...

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