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The REAL Shift™ library

Two foundational books, and sixteen new titles: practices, companions, deeper inquiry, and the story of where it all began.

The complete REAL Shift library by Mark Powers: Find Out Who Dies, A Heart Made Light, 8 Days in Paradise, What Is Love?, REAL Shift, the 30-Day Guided Journal, 100 Practices, Eat for Stillness, and The Knot of the Heart
Ebooks & audiobooks available in 13 languagesEnglishEspañolDeutschFrançaisPortuguêsहिन्दी日本語한국어தமிழ்العربية中文বাংলাItaliano

Start with the foundations

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The method · Available now

REAL Shift™: The 10-Second Method

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.

Paperback $22.22 · Hardcover $33.33 · Kindle $9.99 · 406 pages

Ebook & audio in 13 languages: EnglishEspañolDeutschFrançaisPortuguêsहिन्दी日本語한국어தமிழ்العربية中文বাংলাItaliano

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Where it all began · Available now

Realize the Self

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.

Ebook & audio in 13 languages: EnglishEspañolDeutschFrançaisPortuguêsहिन्दी日本語한국어தமிழ்العربية中文বাংলাItaliano

Where should I begin?

Need the complete methodThe 10-Second Method
Need daily practices100 Practices
Want structured repetition30-Day Guided Journal
Want to eat for a calmer mindEat for Stillness
Want the deeper foundationRealize the Self
Want to investigate realityWhat Is REAL?
Facing death, grief, or caregivingA Heart Made Light
Ready to practice mortality directlyFind Out Who Dies
Want to know what love really isWhat Is Love?
Want to forgive without denying the pastThe Knot of the Heart
Want the origin story8 Days in Paradise
Want to stop running from yourselfWhat You're Running From
Want to raise a kinder worldRaising a Kinder World
Want to stay human in the age of AIRemain Human
Want a modern tantra of awarenessThe 112 Doors
Want the lost history of fateThe Ājīvikas
Want the real way out of saṃsāraThe Sun Is a Door
Want to read the novelThe Sun Gate
Want to stop running from yourselfWhat You're Running From
Want to raise a kinder worldRaising a Kinder World
Want to stay human in the age of AIRemain Human
Want a modern tantra of awarenessThe 112 Doors
Want the lost history of fateThe Ājīvikas
Want the real way out of saṃsāraThe Sun Is a Door
Want to read the novelThe Sun Gate

Sixteen new books. One growing library.

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.

Out now on Amazon

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Out Now

REAL Shift™ — 100 Practices for Modern Life

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.

Ebook & audio · 13 languages
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Out Now

The REAL Shift™ 30-Day Guided Journal

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.

Ebook & audio · 13 languages
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Out Now

REAL Shift™ — Eat for Stillness

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.

Ebook & audio · 13 languages
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Out Now

REAL Shift™ — What Is Love?

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.

Ebook & audio · 13 languages
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Out Now

The Knot of the Heart

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.

Ebook & audio · 13 languages

October 2026 → January 2027

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Next · October

REAL Shift™ — What Is REAL?

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.

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December

A Heart Made Light

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.

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January 2027

Find Out Who 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.

The REAL Shift™ Library, continued

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2027

8 Days in Paradise

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.

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2027

What You're Running From

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.

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2027

REAL Shift™ — Raising a Kinder World

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.

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2027

REAL Shift™ — Remain Human

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.

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2027

The 112 Doors

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.

Beyond the Method

History, comparative cosmology, and fiction — books outside the REAL Shift method, by the same author.

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2027

The Ājīvikas

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.

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2027

The Sun Is a Door

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.

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2027

The Sun Gate

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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