The Adytum is Open

The Adytum is Open

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.

… you can see what we did here

Tatton Two

Definition of an Adytum 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

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.

Money alchemy

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.

Coming in for Landing

Coming in for Landing

Definition of an Adytum 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. 

See here for more details …

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

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.

Money alchemy

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.

Töm’s Tomes

Töm’s Tomes

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.

Tom’s TomesSo 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.

Channeling the Future

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

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.

Book Alcchemy

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.

Time Restored

Time Restored

Time Restored MetaBy 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.

Channeling for Authors

Channeling for Authors

Definition of a BookwrightRecent 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.

Soulwaves The DuadexThe 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?

Foot off the Gas

Foot off the Gas

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

Tom and Louisa Soulwaves Introduction

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) :