Another moonth later and spring has sprung. naturally with me, a whole bunch of new content has also emerged, which I’ve put into one place down the bottom of this blog.
For many, lock down I am sure has been stressful. For me, apart from not getting out as much, it’s been ‘business as usual’. I should clarify, it’s been more business than usual, of a higher quality, with less time spent at my workhorse of an iMac.
There’s been more time for research and reading, listening to music and other meditations, watching films and DIY … even a spot of golf.
This new moon sees the launch of something I have been working on for all of this life, if not quite a few life times before. It is a 13 step programme for human evolution.
To know more about what it encompasses, read this message I recieved many years ago from a very gifted channel, it said …
He has manifested a tangible Tool capable of being used by many in places of school and thought.
This is no insignificant project. Born of Love from The Divine. The Original Source is US – the Tarot is JUST his ‘gateway’ his ‘door’.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT TAROT – THIS IS ABOUT US. Tell him it IS US Martina – The Divine Ones. It is a Tool of Spiritual Law A tangible Tool. To be MARKETED. SOLD.
Let him confess the Truth to himself first and find his path and way for living with it, this will ALWAYS be his comfort and solace ALWAYS. He writes the word of The Most Divine enrobed By the names of the ‘doorways’ to Us. Let it be known to him That which he receives IS from The Divine. He is free to “package” at will and need But for his own heart and love tell him WE are with him – it IS US – it IS ‘I’.
His manifestation of Our word has and will touch many far and wide. He has not yet seen his full worth or truth. His words and actions are of The Divine – THAT is why he is “different” like you – even from “The ‘different’ ones” there. He has pondered long and hard to find His place His point His aspect It has caused him much worry and consternation – “Where do I ‘fit in’” The truth is – it is HE who has had to “make that place” – because – ‘it’ has never been there before. “Different even from the ‘different ones’ “ Yes like you Martina. His die is cast And plans underway to melt those glaciers and meet The new frontiers of his life and way there He has broken new ground And do all that is necessary To allow himself the freedom to enjoy the journey, he IS allowed to “enjoy” as a man and a Spirit. He must have the ability to enjoy as a human in order to achieve balance on all levels.
His life and state a human/person Must be “allowed” All that being “human” encompasses. Do not be allowing ONLY the Spirit, Without the human element, The spirit does not grow And burn so brightly.
The ‘Tool’ to be used in places of work Places of learning At ALL levels To be encompassed into a New School of Thought – Which is in fact NOT NEW because it Is of US. It is The Packaging which is NEW – AND IDEAL FOR THIS TIME AND SPACE NOW.
It has been packaged as a product Which is easily accessible And USABLE by many – To enable self learning Development and Growth through “Understanding” Without “UNDERSTANDING” There is NO LEARNING.
Understanding is The Key Attained on the physical Begets it on the Spirit And vice versa.
“Understanding” is The Key To Removal of Blocks Burdens Obstacles Restriction Imprisonment On ALL levels.
He has done so well in The Way he has packaged THE KEY. TIMELY USABLE TANGIBLE.
A new man with a new tangible package both Aptly placed For THIS time there NOW.
This is what he is. This is who he IS. This is what he has got.
Last Moonth’s Soul-full Output
Here’s the latest two Soulwaves-inspired ambient tracks and the latest guided meditation.
Note you can access the whole series of both ambient and guided tracks in the new Insight Timer playlists …
Permutation One
by Tom Evans | Soulwaves
The Veil
by Tom Evans | Soulwaves
Soul Qualities
by Tom Evans | The Soul-full Path
Podcasts this Moonth …
This moonth has seen three more conversations with three enlightened souls – Dr Anne Whitehouse, Vicki Wusche and Aditya Kumar from the My Seven Chakras podcast.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did …
Loving the Work That You Do
by Vicki Wusche
Pull Back Your Power
by Dr Anne Whitehouse
Your Seven Chakras
by Aditya Kumar
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
So next moonth, I am scaling down to producing just one new ambient track and one guided meditation each month and hopefully no more than two podcasts. You never know though if those who are pulling my strings have different ideas …
… and I’ll definitely be producing more of the steps on the Path of Return.
In just one Moon orbit of the Earth, much has changed.
Like most of the planet, we are in self-isolation and in equal awe at how the virus is spreading but how such acts of compassion and humanity are also nicely ‘infecting’ the globe. This will be an amazing turning point for humanity, as foretold in Soulwaves – see below.
You can’t time these things (or can you?) but, after last moonth’s Super Moon when it was at perigee (closest distance), even the Moon is getting as far away from the Earth as possible. It’s a Micro Moon at apogee.
Changing Course
So just imagine if everything in Soulwaves is true. If so, we have less than 90 years to save humanity. Even if not true, if we imagine it is, then we could take different courses of action right now.
Out of the Void
So while all this madness is unfolding, something amazing has happened in my small world. From nowhere (or actually from the Void) five 12 minute ambient tracks have emerged and I edited them together into just over an hour’s worth of music. Listen to the podcast to the right and to the composition called Immersion below.
Out of the Void
The Earth Mind
It is natural we are concerned at this time by our fellow humans but there is a bigger picture in play. The Earth herself is in the process of Ascension where she becomes self-aware – not just through us. We live in a biosphere where we are just one small component of it. We are just 1/10000th of the biomass.
What’s Next?
We have to be realistic about the threat humanity is under. I am 62 but relatively healthy and self-isolating in a rural setting. I don’t need to go out at all and can walk my dogs on 150 acres of golf course.
That said, like everyone, I could succumb and this could be my last blog …
If it isn’t, a new ambient track called Ocean’s Rise and a new guided meditation called Soul Entanglement will be produced this moonth – as well as at least two more podcasts.
Just in case I don’t make another orbit of the Moon, four meditations are in the Insight Timer content queue – stay safe and indoors everyone!
When you haven’t written a book, getting it actually published can seem like a bit of a mountain to climb.
When you do get it published, it can appear like another bigger and harder mountain appears – and that’s to tell people about it and to get them to read it.
In the lull between the editing and publication process, I spent much time meditating and dog walking, allowing ideas and memes to come to me as to how to go about it.
I kicked off four of the ideas this month and already the ‘wave is building and propagating around the world.
Wave #1 : Getting Readers Together
This is beneficial on many levels.
Readers get to meet other like minded souls and the book connects them actually using the intrinsic force of soulwaves. Readers can also connect with me and ask me anything, as can I of them. Hopefully readers will tell other people to become readers and to join the Facebook Group. This builds the ‘wave.
By far and away the best benefit of the group is going to be the moonthly waves that we start together. The first one will be propagating out on the next New Moon, the 23rd Feb.
In the tradition of Jeff Lynne and War of the Worlds, and lesser known but much better Snowgoose by Camel, I am embarking on creating a album of ambient meditative music inspired by my own book, Soulwaves.
I have found a new guitar teacher who is helping me with composition and the first track is really me just getting my head around Abelton.
It covers the first five chapters where our hero descends from the Void to the Density, ending up with him in his mother’s womb.
They will appear first in the private Facebook group, then on Insight Timer on each Full Moon – you can also listen to it here.
Track 1 : Insertion
Wave #3 : Providing Guidance
And around each New Moon, I am releasing a guided meditation which explores how we can strengthen our connection with our soul.
This first track, Being Soul-full, is a gentle introduction and warm up.
Incidentally, it uses the background layer from next month’s ambient track. It warmed my soul when one Insight Timer meditator posed this question.
Meditation 1 : Being Soul-full
Wave #4 : Enlightened Converations
I have found podcasting is by far and away the best way to make soul-to-soul connections, without leaving your home.
My podcast, The Zone Show, was in mothballs while I moved house and finished off Soulwaves last year.
This year it’s back with a splash and my first guest was the amazing Joanna Penn – and I am guest #2 with my new co-host Jackie Roberts. You can watch our conversation in the video below (or catch it on The Zone ShowThe Zone Show).
Just over 10 years ago, I published my first non-fiction book called Blocks. To accompany it, I created a set of meditations. Little did I know then that would lead me down a completely different path.
This month, my meditations reached the 2.3 million listens point on Insight Timer. By gifting them away free, so much abundance has come my way to create a new level of freedom which has taken me to a place beyond my wildest dreams.
This energetic flow is a gift that keeps on giving.
Since creating those first few meditations, I have built up an amazing repository of materials. A small fraction of these materials have found their way on to Insight Timer but, up to now, much of it has been under lock and key behind a username and password which is unlocked by the exchange of money.
From today this all changes. My archive is now freely available to all.
Access my free resources here …
In Other News
One of my most popular meditations on Insight Timer, called Just for Today, has had just short of 600k listens. A meditator asked the other day for an extended version which you can now find here – calledJust a Little Longer. This is also the first ever track where I have composed and created the ambient background music … more of this in 2020.
Also I am honoured to have been chosen by Insight Timer to provide the Daily Insight on Christmas Day. It will be available in 5, 10 and 20 minute versions and is called The Turning Point. If you are ready for a change in the next orbit of the Sun, it’s an example of another gift that will keep on giving.
p.s. The Turning Point got over 4000 people meditating on Xmas Day and is now available in the archive – https://insig.ht/KpYRTiFiI2
Soulwaves available for pre-order
Last, but by no means least, after 15 years and 15 other books, my first novel – Soulwaves – will be published on the first Full Moon of 2020.
The audiobook has been recorded and uploaded but I have no control of publication date – it is though trickling out to a few platforms like Google Play.
Listen to the channelling from Louisa Tanner Munson to find out why it’s being published on the first Full Moon of 2020.
Why was Soulwaves published on the 1st Full Moon of 2020?
While I have been busy creating the Soulwaves book itself, I have consciously done nothing about publishing it, other than to observe what is happening in the industry. So rather than me having to find the way to get it published, I’ve been allowing the paths to publication and marketing to find me.
I had already used Ingram Spark last year for the Big U and am using them again but this time also publishing a hardback version. I wanted something other than just ACX and iTunes for the audiobook though.
Thanks mainly to the wonderful Creative Penn podcast, from the prolific and supremely knowledgeable Joanna Penn, I’m using a new way to distribute the audiobook version.
Findaway Voices not only submit your audiobook to ACX/Audible and iTunes but over 40 other audiobook platforms. Before submitting Soulwaves (at nearly 10 hours long), I tested the system out with the audiobook version of The Germinatrix (at less than 1 hour long).
I had the usual tech issues to fix with ACX, my fault for rushing, but pleased to see the book out on so many places it has never been heard before. Note, I serialised it on Insight Timer over the last two years – well that method worked for Charles Dickens and H.G. Wells!
Also this month, I had a lovely heart-to-heart with wordsmith, Mariëlle Smith …
Proofing the Pudding
Usually initial proof read and recording of audiobook catches 99% of errors. As the first sample print books of Soulwaves arrived this month, it was clear I only caught 95% or so!
Thank goodness for print on demand and setting a pre-order date.
Perhaps as this is so big and expansive in plot – over billions of years of time and 150,000 light years in space – I have learned a novel such as this needs an additional proof read after the recording of the audiobook.
So December will be spent ironing out the wrinkles. You can however safely pre-order the book in all good online bookstores and it will be perfect by the 10th Jan 2020.
This month has been consumed by audiobook production – slotted in around loads of family support.
At 100 chapters and just shy of 100k words, there is no short cut. I am managing 10 chapters a week and am 70 chapters in at the time of this blog.
So it will be finished by mid to late October and the book will be out, at last, well before the end of the year. I can recommend the process to all authors. Not only do you get the audiobook from it but also you find errors not found by any proof reading process and, for a complex plot like this one, inconsistencies that need ironing out.
Enlightened Conversations
In the run up to publication, I’m slowly restarting the Zone Show podcast and also being interviewed myself.
Here’s a couple of conversations from this month.
… more coming soon.
Authentic Living
by Tom Evans chatting to John Siddique
Timeful Reflections
Writing this blog and this whole production process around this novel has caused me to reflect.
Why has this project taken so long when other books have just popped out in weeks or months? This one has taken years.
Is it just because it’s my first novel and I am learning my craft?
Am I still harbouring a fear or imposter syndrome?
Is all driven by some kind of divine timing?
… if you are an intuitive or a channel, please leave any insights below by way of comment.
Several blogs ago I set my stall our to post once a month as a bread crumb trail of what was going on in my life – the original purpose and format for a blog perhaps.
Something happened at the start of this month which means I should break with this tradition and sneak an extra blog in – my meditations on Insight Timer hit the 2 million listens mark, after three years.
What does this mean?
Firstly, what was something I played and experimented with has gone mainstream. People seem to enjoy each new meditation I post.
Secondly, I have hit a groove where there is no limit. I post two to three free pieces of audio a month – a meditation, a podcast and a short story. The sales revenue from Insight Timer courses mean I can relax and release more and more free stuff, which in turn helps with sales. After 15 years of pretty continual content creation, I have found my metier.
Thirdly, it means I can really devote the time my forthcoming novel Soulwaves requires to create a Big Splash.
Eternal thanks to the team at Insight Timer and all those souls who helped me get to this milestone.
The two pillars in the High Priestess card in the Tarot represent Involution and Evolution.
Involution is like a winding down, or curling up, and it leads to evolution when it unfolds again.
Reflecting on this natural cycle, the High Priestess sits on a Cube (more on this coming up over the next few months) and holds the scroll of Tora, which contains all wisdom.
It’s no coincidence that this last month has seen much involution as the next phase of evolution is about to arrive.
Just for Today
After nearly four years of writing them, and two years of having them illustrated by the wonderful Siri Stiklestad Opli, the last Just for Today will be posted today. Is that the end of them though? No way! They begat from a meditation and every month going forward I’ll be publishing a new meditation based using the words “just for today” as the seed.
This is the meditation that started them off – eponymously called Just for Today …
You can listen to the others for free on Insight Timer
and just sharing my favourite illustrated JFT again here (must get that T-shirt done!)
Non-fiction to fiction author
Soulwaves will be back from the editor today and I’ll be spending the next three months getting it ready for publication. This will involve incorporating the edits, updating the science (thanks brother John) and narrating the audiobook as the final process of the edit. If I can’t say it “out loud”, readers won’t be able to experience it “in loud”.
I’ve also been learning about how to get a book made into film or TV. This book would need a serious rewrite so I’m looking at either an adaptation, or a new series of sequels/prequels written for telly using the principles of soulwaves as a seed. Black Mirror is my muse!
Surrey to Wiltshire
After over 20 years in our wonderful house in Surrey, this month it came under offer and we’ll (hopefully) be permanently moving to the new ‘passive’ and eco-friendly house in Wiltshire in July. This passing represents a huge transition too, from living in a 100 year old energy inefficient house to one which virtually runs itself and in Summer sends energy to the grid.
With much less energy drain, finances free up too. In addition, my latest courses on Insight Timer are now providing a decent sleeping income. All of which means, I will be free to write 24×7 (ideas come in dreams too).
What goes around, comes around … listen to this podcast for a summary of the journey so far.
NEXT MONTH : How cogs whir when pebbles are dropped in the pod … and you keep a quiet mind to allow the ripples to come back.
This month I did something I have been meaning to do for ages, I had some new photography done for my site.
The wonderful Maria O’Brien of Haiga Photography popped over to my house on a glorious pre-spring day. You’ll find my mugshot on all main pages of the site now, as opposed to me hiding away down somewhere deep.
I am so pleased at what she did and am wondering why I spent so long just hiding behind my voice on meditations, audiobooks and my podcast. Time to be seen, as well as heard.
Now the first draft of Soulwaves, the novel, is in the can – more on that in the next blog – I dusted off The Zone Show podcast this month and started it up again.
In this episode, I chat to Jelena Adzic about her transition from meditator to meditation guide on Insight Timer.
You will hear from Jelena again in the next episode when she turns the tables on me when we talk about said novel … and the next page I am turning.
A Meditator’s Journey
by Tom Evans chatting to Jelena Adzic
Being Heard Even More
I’m thrilled that my new 30 day course, Mindfulness for Busy People, is now live on Insight Timer.
The new course format has allowed me to collate meditations from many sources of mine into the app into one cohesive container. The course contains a mix of remastered existing meditations along with brand new ones that link the whole 30 day narrative together.
Another moonth later and spring has sprung. naturally with me, a whole bunch of new content has also emerged, which I’ve put into one place down the bottom of this blog.
Last Moonth’s Soul-full Output
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
The two pillars in the High Priestess card in the Tarot represent Involution and Evolution.
Soulwaves will be back from the editor today and I’ll be spending the next three months getting it ready for publication. This will involve incorporating the edits, updating the science (thanks brother John) and narrating the audiobook as the final process of the edit. If I can’t say it “out loud”, readers won’t be able to experience it “in loud”.
After over 20 years in our wonderful house in Surrey, this month it came under offer and we’ll (hopefully) be permanently moving to the new ‘passive’ and eco-friendly house in Wiltshire in July. This passing represents a huge transition too, from living in a 100 year old energy inefficient house to one which virtually runs itself and in Summer sends energy to the grid.
