Well the last moon orbit, mostly in January, was an interesting ‘moonth’ that augured in the arrival of a ‘new reality’ for me.
As I planned, the Outer Sanctum of the Adytum is now fully populated, open for business and taking students on board. For the next moon orbit, I will let it solidify and stabilise before tackling the creation of the Inner Sanctum.
As it happens, the materials for the Inner Sanctum largely exist, so again it will be all about creating videos and the structure of the path for acolytes. I’ll start laying the pathway after the next New Moon.
For the last ten years, I have mostly been creating audio assets mostly in the form of meditations, music and stories. The creation of the Adytum has given me a new found confidence talking to camera – without hesitation, repetition or hesitation – as well as skilling up in video edited. By way of example, see the scope of what I’ve published in the Outer Sanctum here …
On top of the creation of this new school of contemporary alchemy, a gift that came my way just before the end of the year was to be invited to host a show on the new metaphysical channel, New Reality TV.
Now the Outer Sanctum is complet, I’ve started to record episodes for my Practical Alchemy show and I plan to interview a guest a week going forward. Catch up on what’s already live and streaming.
As one orbit of the Sun completes and another is about to begin, it pays dividends to reflect back and project forward. I always remind myself that every year we share on Spaceship Earth takes us on a journey of half a billion miles around our home star.
So half a billion miles ago, we’d just moved back into our renovated house. A good 25% of it internally was still a building site. Outside was a mess of detritus and the walls weren’t insulated and windows weren’t sealed. It was good to be out of the motorhome but there was still a mountain to climb. We had bought the property to downsize but ended up extending it by a good 50% … but it is now a much more usable space for me to expand my business in a way I hadn’t planned. Having reached retirement age, I was aiming for an easy life but the Universe had other plans.
So by the Spring Equinox, the works were largely completed and I’d also re-built my online business back to where it was before we moved out of the house back in March 2023. We’d even reinstated the solar panels and the eco-credentials of the house began to prove themselves.
The National Self Build and Renovation Centre even made a case study of what we’d done – we are the first people to have had two case studies on their site.
Creatively, a new level of flow had been found too with a new level of confidence and surety. Around this time, I found myself creating, with others, a safe space to support fellow Insight Timer guides. This turned out to be a prescient move as in July, they changed the way that revenue could be earned and many, including me, felt the rug had been pulled from underneath us.
Collectively though, there was much knowledge and experience in the group and many embarked on developing alternative and augmentative sources of income. For me, it was the kick up the proverbial I didn’t know I needed.
Since around 2009, I had been harbouring the notion of creating an online school of alchemy. So I dusted off gigabytes of files on my hard drive around the Autumn Equinox, added loads of new content and, by the time of the Winter Solstice, The Adytum had arrived. While it kind of came from nowhere, the content for it has been created over the last 20 years or so.
It consists of two main areas : namely an Outer and Inner Sanctum. There’s a side area called The Scriptorium just for authors too.
The Outer Sanctum is a safe, introductory and exploratory space for those wanting to learn how to use alchemical keys to open the door to a blissful and magical life. The Outer Sanctum is in soft launch mode now, with an amazing introductory offer, and fully open on the first New Moon of 2025 on the 29th of January. There are even two free modules on healing and money alchemy for those who just want to sample some magic in their life – links below for these.
The Inner Sanctum is an invitation-only space for those wanting to teach others. This will be opening for acolytes on and around the Spring Equinox, with several modules in the Outer Sanctum being prerequisites for those wanting to awaken to another level again.
And just when that’s enough good news for anyone for any one year, I am also launching a TV channel on a new online station called NewRealityTV. More on this in next’s moonth’s blog …
Healing Alchemy [free]
Healing is a gift and an ability which is innate and inside everyone.
Discover simple alchemical techniques and listen to relaxing meditations to help soften and reduce dis-ease and to help you to live weller for longer.
Abundant Thinking [free]
Discover how to bring abundance, in all its forms, into your world and how money is an energy which is mirrors our internal energetic state. Change your internal energy, increase your promise and the external world alters accordingly.
This is not quite the last blog of this year, as there’s another New Moon on the 30th December where I’ll be projecting out to 2025.
Before I wrote this blog, I went back over all the blogs from the year and what a journey. We moved back into our eco-home and stopped house building and began a process of home making.
Creatively, what a shift too. I first rebuilt my Insight Timer revenue back up to where it had been, only to discover in July that the rug was about to be pulled and I’d have to innovate my way around it.
This caused me first to think of bringing TheBookwright out of retirement which has now led me to create something I have been putting off for many years, if not many life times.
As a result, The Adytum, a school for contemporary alchemy, has just soft launched. The platform I am using, Thinkific, has loads of great resources and templates for growing such a community. This made me realise that although I excel at content creation, I could not let the marketing of the school be simply open to universal forces. After all the school teaches that we are the impetus and channel for such forces.
I am soft launching five modules now with two which are free, see below for more detail on these.
The outer sanctum will open early in January 2025 (with five more modules, so ten in total with the two free samplers) and then the inner sanctum will open for explorers in Spring 2025.
So I’m now busying myself in learning how to create landing pages and how to use sales funnels. This approach led me to find an amazing ally in this process and this interview tells some of this story.
Healing Alchemy [free]
Healing is a gift and an ability which is innate and inside everyone.
Discover simple alchemical techniques and listen to relaxing meditations to help soften and reduce dis-ease and to help you to live weller for longer.
Abundant Thinking [free]
Discover how to bring abundance, in all its forms, into your world and how money is an energy which is mirrors our internal energetic state. Change your internal energy, increase your promise and the external world alters accordingly.
Sometimes adversity and frustration can get us down. I’ve been holding on to a nagging frustration for more years than is healthy. It festered into being quite annoying recently last moonth. Something had to be done.
So I resigned myself to cosmic forces and gave up pushing water uphill and then idea came along in the hypnopompic space, on the morning the clocks went back giving that other hour.
The idea was so wondrous and sublimely brilliant that I now do not want to give any energy to the events that led to this amazing opportunity, apart from to thank them for their nudge and guidance.
It is one of those ideas that is so obvious that you wonder why you didn’t think of it before.
As shared in this blog, for the last two moonths, I have been working on launching a much revamped version of my course to help authors get their books to flow through them. The first moonth was one of review and trying out a platform that just wasn’t up to the job. The second moonth was one of creation of new assets and a revised structure using the platform I am now running with.
I just love Thinkific.
So it’s with great pleasure and pride that I can announce that from today, this November’s New Moon, my new course Channeling for Authors is ready to accept prospective authors. I am releasing it for a launch price for the foreseeable future, which is even better value now due to the revelation that came my way.
For nearly 20 years now, I have been writing and publishing books, recording audiobooks and generating many assets to go with them, such as interviews, videos, meditations and, most recently, ambient music.
It dawned on me that all of these wondrous creations are spread across many platforms like Amazon, Audible and, most recently, Insight Timer. None of these platforms though allow me to mix and consolidate media types. All the assets associated with each book are hard even for me to find and share. I’ve also created a few innovative ways to share the books in a way I have never done before.
So along with the launch of Channeling for Authors, I am really chuffed to have appended a bonus section called Töm’s Tomes, plus another module on my channelings of the future. This is a single repository, full of esoteric and metaphysical explorations, which forms a considerable and ever expanding archive. It gives new authors loads of examples of how a book can be structured. It’s a celebration too of a creative spark that shows no signs of abating.
So, as well as the channeled books themselves, thanks to Thinkific’s support for multiple media types, you can find associated interviews, explanatory videos and all sorts of other treats and goodies – all in one place. To deepen your appreciation of the course materials, you will be able to see many examples of channeled writing, as well as the ancillary assets we as authors can generate to augment the reader and listener experience … and market our books.
Its curation got be out of a fug and inspired me greatly on the run up to this New Moon and my hope and aim is that it collation similarly inspires and ‘edutains’ you as an author and creator. All legacies start with one book and all books start with one word.
p.p.s. I’ve also published a free module for the Adytum which shares some techniques of how to deal with dis-ease.
p.p.s. as mentioned, this whole inspiration arrived in the hypnopompic state last weekend when we had another hour in bed. It was in this state that the whole of the first chapter, and premise, of Time Restored arrived. To similarly inspire you, let me share a meditation called Hypnopompia Extended to help you access the transition consciousness …
… and a guided meditation and co-creation with Ada and Nathan Ketchie (Wakes) called Awaken from the Awakened Dream
Healing Alchemy [free]
Healing is a gift which is inside everyone. Discover simple alchemical techniques to help soften dis-ease and help you to live weller for longer.
Channeling for Authors
Want to write and publish a book but don’t know how to go about it? Start today at a special launch price for self-study or contact me if you’re interested in 1-2-1 mentoring.
By now, I was hoping to be announcing the release of my new course to help authors write their books using channeling. The cosmos had different ideas as the first chapter for a book I didn’t plan to write appeared in entirety in a dream on the morning of Sunday the 8th September.
By the 20th of September, the first draft of the book was finished. It’s a 12,000 word novella called Time Restored. Let me explain why this needed to come out first.
The course I am planning will be now called Channeling for Authors. It’s a much revamped version of a course I created over ten years ago called How to Channel Your Book. Many of the exercises in the book are the same but I of course had to update it as the landscape of the publishing industry has changed somewhat since then. Publishing is even more in the hands of the author these days.
The course already includes guidance on how to write in the trance state so you end up entrancing your reader. I wanted though to include a new module in the course on how to write nested loops that hook your reader in such that they have to read the next chapter.
Since it started channeling in, so many bizarre coincidences have popped along and it is really like the book is being both told and shown to me.
What better example could there be but a book all about time loops? You can listen to the first chapter here … see if you can spot the loops opening.
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I am also using Insight Timer intially to serialise the book, in the Charles Dickens tradition. The first chapter is published on Friday the 4th October and then a chapter a week until the end of the year. It’s also an experiment in encouraging people to invest in IT Premium as the first chapter will be free and the rest exclusive to subscribers. I have three other books lined up already, early in 2025, for this treatment if it works.
Hogwarts for Adults
So the course for authors will be available by the next New Moon, on the 1st November. What also put me a little behind was that I had an abortive experience with two platforms but have now zero’ed in on Thinkific. The main reason for using this platform is that I am now to release many more courses and finally build an esoteric school which I have been dreaming of for many years, if not planning for many lifetimes.
It’s a kind of ‘Hogwarts for Adults’ and will be called The Adytum. It will launch with 10 or so modules, including Channeling for Authors, over the /course of 2025 and build into an archive of esoteric knowledge, made exoteric.
I have a busy but enjoyable moonth coming up ahead. Watch this space for more details.
Recent changes on Insight Timer caused me to rethink, recalibrate and reset over the Summer.
This is partly to prepare for when we can promote subscription offerings via the app and partly to create a second string to my bow should income decrease, it occurred to me that I should resurrect Tom the author’s mentor.
So on the Autumn Equinox, TheBookwright will be reincarnating and I will be launching a much revamped version of my self-study programme for authors. It has most recently been called “How to Channel Your Book” but this updated version will just be what ‘it-says-on-the-tin’ and that’s “Channeling for Authors”.
It will consist of seven ten modules [UPDATED 01/11/24] and take you through a process that I use to allow a book, or any creative writing, to come through me. So you can use it for any writing exercise like a course, a thesis or even a new product or business proposal.
Alongside it, I’ll also be delivering 1-2-1 book, business or personal discovery sessions too.
In itself, it’s a precursor to a body of work I’ll launch in 2025 which will be a school of contemporary alchemy … and an Adytum, a sacred space for the dispensation and dissemination of magick.
In the meantime, the same creative engine is churning away. For example, I’ve created a playlist of my latest free output on the app.
Additionally, I’ve also started a new series mindfully and timefully short #TimefulTasks which will have its own playlist once I have three published. They will be published on each New and Full Moon and you can listen to today’s here.
The serialisation of Soulwaves : A Future History will be complete on the 1st of October. I am in three minds about what to follow it up with. The natural successor woul be Soulwaves : The Duadex of which I have a fifth already written and recorded. Like all authors, a fear surfaces about the missing 4/5ths.
Questions abound like :
Am I good enough?
Where can I take it?
Is the answer is already written in the stars?
Does the answer lie in me taking my own course so this book can be unleashed from inside me?
Or should I record two non-fiction books that never quite made into audiobooks?
Blocks and New Magic for a New Era, is it your time?
Will Insight Timer wake up and really support audiobooks?
Would not writing The Duadex be a cop out and a convenient “being creatively uncreative” procrastination?
I am sure the answers will emerge by the time the Moon becomes New once more … perhaps the answer is not to choose between the options but to do them all. This leads to another question. Now our new house is complete, is it time to turn up the dial on production to eleven?
Again I find that my ‘real’ life is emulating my art … or vice versa.
We are/have just acquired our first fully electric car to go along with our existing hybrid. The existing car has all-wheel-drive so will only be used for treacherous conditions and long drives, not that we do many of those nowadays. So largely, fed from our solar panels, or cheap rate electricity, we will be using very little gas as we pootle around.
Art-wise, I am experimenting with a less-might-lead-to-more approach.
Thankfully my new Soulwaves TV programme has been put back to Autumn as Ethereal aren’t quite ready. I am grateful for this as I really need to create a more professional studio space with better lighting, audio damping and a more professional background.
… but you can at least watch the introductory episode here
So I’ll continue trickling content out to Insight Timer each month until the end of the year … when everything changes in 2025:
a series of TimefulTasks, all timefully 2m22s or 3m33s long
a meditation a month on the Just for Today theme
a short story in the form of a meditale (narration and audio combined)
an ambient track a month
something more meaty for IT Premium in the form of short stories or maybe novellas
And just started using a new audio embedding tool so I can share what I published on Insight Timer last moonth …
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And this interview with fellow Insight Timer guide, Lou Redmond, went live too (and a shed load more lined up for next moonth) :
This last moonth has been one where flexibility has had to be the key. The next few moonths are poised to be similar in flavour.
The reason being is that my main two initiatives for 2024 are in a state of flux, with uncertainty around their aspects and timing.
So I have prerecorded two introductory shows for the new Soulwaves channel on Ethereal TV. Their launch date of June seems to have slipped, which doesn’t surprise me at all as it’s a massive undertaking on their part, not least with herding many cool cats. If I am honest, I prefer doing interviews outside the summer months anyway when I prefer to be outside! So I am not rattling that cage and am happy for it all to run its course.
Slightly more unsettling but also potentially really good news is that Insight Timer are changing the way that they remunerate teachers. As this is my main revenue stream, as I am loyal to them for the opportunity they gave me, I will have to adjust and potentially augment some of my plans.
I was planning to put all of my Magnum Opus on to the app and have already re-published the first part of my trilogy, the book Flavours of Thought, on the app. I was about to upload the companion book in an eight part mini-series, Recipes for Fresh Thinking, and have two recipe-themed courses up already with a third lined up for July.
My intuition is to hold off doing any more. Partly as they are not getting the traction I had hoped for but mainly as my intuition is to re-publish and re-purpose the second part of the trilogy, Planes of Being.
The third and most expansive part of the trilogy is The Path to Overstanding. This was going to be tricky to upload as it has so many materials as attachments and Insight Timer do not allow them to be appended to courses. What they are about to launch though is our ability to sell events and mentoring services through the app.
This means access to The Path to Overstanding could be repurposed as a subscription-based monthly mentoring programme. I already have it hosted on MySoundwise and can augment access with live sessions that themselves will get uploaded, thus augmenting the level of Overstanding.
So for a moonth, I plan to do nothing apart from observe and post my current mix of free meditations and music, the serialisation of the audiobook version of Soulwaves and courses.
By way of fitting example, let me share a guided visualisation with you here, that I just happened to upload last moonth … funny how art emulates life !
And you can see the interview with the CEO of Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, on the ringing in of these changes here https://youtu.be/t_NgITxD324
As we approach the Summer Solstice, there have been many strings pulled in the Density from the Void. The Council of the Light have been busy.
There’s a new TV channel about to launch with a focus on metaphysics called Ethereal.tv. My great friend, Louisa Tanner Munson, was initially invited to it, along with Carl Munson, her erudite husband and fabulous show host. They both recommended me to the channel’s progenitors, Will Rodriquez and Karen Endsley.
A brief chat was all that was needed for them to want me to launch a show and for me to go for it. The title they suggested was fab, It’s Not Bonkers, but after finding myself procrastinating about it, I realised that it is to be called soulwaves : connecting above to below.
It’s going to be an exploration of all things metaphysical with a whole raft of guests helping me make the esoteric into the exoteric – and launching later this moonth.
It’s quite an undertaking as I will be producing a one hour show every week but it’s such an opportunity to get even more global reach than I am already getting through Insight Timer. I was though feeling a new challenge was needed as I have been far too complacent and comfortable with my creative output.
That said, I am thrilled to have published three new courses on Insight Timer on the Flavours of Thought in the last three moonths alone.
In addition, from June onwards, I am also starting to write, record and publish a series of follow on courses on the Recipes for Fresh Thinking – which are essentially modern day spells. This will lead into another series of courses inspired by the Minor Arcana and based on my book on the subject, Planes of Being.
The ability to cross-fertilise my Ethereal shows with Insight Timer materials is immense as the shows can feature sample meditations and go into more depth as there is no restriction on imagery and of course video content. This means my Magnum Opus can truly be shared with the world now.
You’ll find links to the Flavours of Thought courses below … and I’ll post shows as they go live on Ethereal on my front page.
This first course explores thought forms that emanate from outside of our neurology. These are the stuff of light bulb moments and the source and fuel for our creativity. If you have ever had an idea ‘off the top’ of your head, you will have heard a whisper already.
This second course in the series explores thought forms that percolate up from our lower mind centres. Pay attention to them and you will never put a foot out of kilter. Ignore them and you may end up pushing water uphill.
This third course explores thought forms that are generated in our brain that are seeded from ethereal whisper and unconscious murmurs. You will also get a sample taster of a Recipe for Fresh Thinking.
Seven years ago, in May 2017, I was approached by Siri Opli who asked if I would like my daily Just for Today memes to be illustrated. I had no reason to say no so we embarked on a journey with no plan to reach any destination but just to enjoy the ride.
We flipped the order of creation over the years. Sometimes Siri would send me art and I would write having been inspired by it. Other times, I would write the words and Siri would be inspired to draw or paint accordingly.
Last month, the scheduling software I was using to batch schedule JFTs stopped posting to Facebook Groups, a change at Meta’s end apparently, so this month we are changing the way we are doing them.
We will still record Just for Today themed meditations – here’s one recent one for example. This one incidentally was one that I did following a reading from a medium who suggested I create content for younger people, perhaps with ADHD and autism.
Siri will be now be collating and curating old and new groups of illustrated memes on the Deckible app as card decks – here’s an example
Now there is a modest charge for each deck but Siri would love your support and the big advantage is to get all the associated JFTs in one place – many with the associated meditation. Better still is the ability to be able to journal against each card and even do spreads of cards.
So I throw the gauntlet down to any reader of this blog to stop doing something, out of habit, that no longer serves. This allows something else you did not expect to pop along.
Now this has already happened to me and I hope to be able to announce it after the next orbit of the moon.
I leave you with one of the first ever illustrations that Siri did – it is still our favourite – as well as the meditation it inspired.