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Two foundational books, and sixteen new titles: practices, companions, deeper inquiry, and the story of where it all began.
Thirty-eight chapters, each ending with its own ten-second practice. One journey from the conditioned mind to unconditioned freedom, weaving neuroscience, contemplative wisdom, and direct inquiry.
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The origin work behind the method. If REAL Shift is the how, Realize the Self is the why: the nature of identity, the illusion of the separate self, and what it means to awaken to what you have always been.
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Seven books are out now: the two foundations above, plus five of these. Eleven more are on the way, beginning with What Is REAL? this October.
Rewire Your Mind in 10 Seconds at a Time
One hundred micro-practices for the moments life actually hands you — traffic, conflict, cravings, 3 a.m. thoughts. Open to any page. Practice in ten seconds. The companion you'll keep within reach.
30 Days to Rewire Your Mind, Reclaim Your Attention, and Live the Shift
One practice. One page. Ten seconds. Every day. Thirty days of guided reflection to make the shift a habit — plus a bonus 12-month practice plan to carry it through the year.
A Diet to Calm the Body, Quiet the Mind, and Make Peace with Food
A quiet mind begins in a calm body — and a calm body begins with what you feed it. A practical, plant-forward guide to eating for steadiness, clarity, and peace with food.
Why Love Is Not a Feeling—and Why It Cannot Be Lost
Love is not the feeling that comes and goes. It is the nature of what you are. A companion to What Is REAL?, following love through the contemplative traditions to the place where it cannot be lost.
Forgiveness Without Denying the Past — A REAL Shift™ Method
Forgiveness that never asks you to pretend it didn't happen. A REAL Shift™ method for loosening what the past still holds — transform the memory, release the grip, keep what is true.
Why You've Never Seen the Present, Never Been the Doer, and Never Been Separate
A demonstration-driven journey through neuroscience, physics, and the contemplative traditions — proving on your own nervous system that the world you live inside is built, not found. Two losses. One homecoming.
A Modern Book of the Dead — A REAL Shift™ Guide to Death, Dying, Grief, and What Never Dies
An unflinching, tender companion for the one conversation none of us gets to skip — how to face death, walk with grief, and discover what in you was never born and never dies.
A 25-Minute Practice to Face Death, Meet the One Who Knows, and Live in Freedom Now — companion to A Heart Made Light
The practice volume beside the guide. A structured, carefully gated protocol for turning attention toward your own mortality — and then toward the one who is looking. Opens with a full safety screen, and means it.
An Egyptian Jail, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Birth of the REAL Shift™
The full origin story — the eight days in Luxor where everything you've read in this library first began. The memoir behind the method.
When Escape Looks Like Success — The Hidden Pain Behind Work, Exercise, Achievement, and the Need to Keep Moving
Some of the most admired habits are also the most respectable ways of not feeling something. A frank look at escape that looks like success, and how to turn and face what you've been outrunning.
A Human Curriculum for Attention, Emotional Strength, Empathy, and Love
A practical curriculum for parents, teachers, and anyone who shapes a child's inner life — attention, emotional strength, empathy, and love taught as skills, one ordinary day at a time.
A REAL Shift™ Guide to Attention, Thought, and Being Human in the Age of AI
As machines get better at thinking, the question becomes what is yours to keep. A guide to protecting your attention, owning your thoughts, and staying awake as a person in the age of AI.
A Modern Tantra of Awareness — 112 Practices for Awakening in the Middle of Ordinary Life
One hundred twelve doors into the present moment, for the kitchen, the commute, the conversation. An original modern tantra of awareness, inspired by an ancient Kashmiri text — not a translation of it.
History, comparative cosmology, and fiction — books outside the REAL Shift method, by the same author.
Makkhali Gosāla and India's Lost Religion of Fate
The history of the Ājīvikas — the ascetic movement that taught niyati, fate, and flourished alongside early Buddhism and Jainism — and of Makkhali Gosāla, the teacher history remembers mostly through his critics. Every claim carries an honest evidence label.
Brahmaloka, the Pleroma, and the Real Way Out of Samsāra
A comparative investigation of the sun as a gate — across the Upaniṣads, the Gnostics, Egypt, Persia, and the Greek mysteries — and what each tradition says about the way out of the cycle of rebirth.
A Novel · Book One
A science-fiction novel set in 2040, when two intelligences — one ancient, one new — contest whether humans will ever wake up, and a door in the sun may be the only way out.
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