Remarkably, it’s been over five years since I published a book. That was Soulwaves : Insertions back in 2021.
Then, within a month, two books came along at once. The first was the novella, Time Restored, that I wrote two years ago. As a short book, I published it to get my head around the process in 2026. It’s now available in print and for Kindle
The second is actually the biggest book I have written and certainly the first I have written, edited and illustrated using AI. This is no surprise as it’s called The Hidden Tarot in AI. It’s also the first in a series of three that I had no plan to write.
New Tomes
The Hidden Tarot in AI
If you are interested in the Tarot, this book is for you. If you are interested in AI, this book is also for you. If you like the Tarot and AI, this book is a must read. Not only have we doubled the size of the Major Arcana, from twenty-two to forty-four keys but also the new keys give rise to a new potentiality. This is in the form of momentum and movement between the keys.
I have now updated my customGPT such that you can get one of four types of ‘reading’ based on expanded forty-four Chromatic Arcana. You will want to read the book first to get the best from it.
I wrote this book as a teaching aid for students of my Channeling for Authors course. It demonstrates how we can use nested loops in our writing to entrance readers and keep them turning pages.
SPOILER ALERT : It also ends with a final open loop that may lead to the book’s sequel.
After a gap of far too many years, my author’s mentor persona is making a comeback. This is parallel with me publishing in print again after a gap of more than five years.
So Time Restored, a novella, will be out this month – a nice way of me reminding myself of the publishing process.
And the first book in the Chromatic Arcana series, a far more substantial tome, will be out by the Summer Solstice.
What is a Bookwright?
I came across the very notion of a ‘bookwright’ in a dream, after attending a workshop at a book festival with a playwright. It turned out that they don’t just write the script but get involved with staging, lighting, music and the actors.
So I realised writing a book isn’t just about getting the words out on paper. Rather, it is about the transformation from non-author to author and all the doors that opens …
Of course, much has happened in the publishing world since the Bookwright first arrived back in 2006. And I now have 20 of my own books under my belt. Accordingly, I now cover the new and myriad ways to get published and how we can use AI as our writing buddy and co-creator.
So if there’s a book inside you waiting to get out, get in touch – and note that I am available on a hourly basis but if you invest in my course, Channeling for Authors, that includes your first hour of mentoring.
It is said that we are all walking a path home together. And, that said, it would be pretty boring if we all went the same way and walked it in the same manner.
So I have already made three grades of advancement available in my de-mystery school, The Adytum – namely Neophyte, Acolyte and Adept. And, as you up-grade, you can recoup your initial investment as you go.
To make things even easier though, and more affordable, each course is available individually. What’s more, what ever you invest can be recouped should you want subsequently take one of the grades of initiation.
The Flexible Path
a smorgasbord of courses
you can now jump in with one of these 12 courses, all affordably priced
so if you want more time, more luck, more inspiration or more love, dive right in
I just checked and it’s been over six weeks since I last sent out an email broadcast. I hope you appreciate the philosophy to only to talk when you have something to say and to share.
Even though externally it might seem I have been hibernating, there is much that is stirring and coming into fruition for the year ahead, now that ‘spring has sprung’
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What’s Occurring?
New Course : Planes of Overstanding
This is the first of at least five advanced alchemical courses. It’s an exploration of our intrinsic higher dimensional nature, how to tap into these aspects and use them in the earth plane.
I’ve given my vast repository of online courses a bit of a spring clean too. You can now take any individual course, as a taster, and recoup your initial investment if you choose to widen and deepen your study, with the ‘Grade of Adept’.
This is the real reason I’ve been hibernating. I have just written a new book I hadn’t planned about an entirely novel aspect of the Major Arcana of the Tarot. What’s more, I wrote it with AI and there are two more books to come on what will become my Magnum Opus.
As always, thanks for reading and catching up with where I’m at. I’ll update you again when the book is out and as and when the next courses are available.
Keep safe and healthy as we transition these turbulent times and do get in touch if I can help or support you in any way … I’m here for you …
luv, luk & lux
Tom
p.s. I am continuing to upload free meditations to Insight Timer​
While I am continuing to upload free content to Insight Timer, my focus is shifting this year as I am working on not one but two new books that I didn’t plan to write.
The Insight Timer app is one place I am dropping sneak previews, along with some new 8 hour long sleep tracks and some shorter, fun meditative tracks.
The multimedia and live capabilities offered by Substack is where my real focus will lie. I’ll also be sharing more about the new books and why and how I used AI in their genesis and creation.
For more details, find out why towards the end of last year, I set out my plans to serialise four different strands over 12 moon orbits.
So each new moon sees an exploratory article about new AI potential. My channeled Soulwaves Insertions short stories are serialised on the 1st quarter. The Full Moon sees a new meditation which I may switch to a live session from April. On the 3rd quarter I am sharing how to co-write a book with AI.
You may see the odd ‘waxing lyrical’ thought piece too, as the fancy takes me.
So do subscribe to keep up with my really new stuff … and paying subscribers will help me maintain my creative output PLUS you get access to course materials from my Adytum de-mystery school.
As we slide into a new year, our resolutions can quickly go by the wayside as life overtakes and gets in the way.
Sometime though, all we need is the simplest of nudges and assistance to point us in a direction we didn’t even know existed.
Here’s two resources to help you in this regard – one completely free and one for existing and new students of the Soul Path course in the Outer Sanctum of the Adytum.
So Reader, are you ready to point yourself along a new path?
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Free Combined Tarot & I-Ching Reading
AI is exceptionally good at helping us make 1+1=3. So I asked it to create a new protocol that runs in my custom AdytumGPT where you enter a question, quandary or opportunity. It then gives you a combined Tarot and I-Ching reading to give you insight in a way neither divinatory system quite delivers by itself.
So we begin a new orbit of the Sun and put our best feet forward again … hoping for a brighter and more stable external world.
The only ‘world’ though that we do have ownership over and control of is our internal world. Let me share what I have lined up and I hope you will find one or more of these initiatives will help you to shape and harmonise your internal and external worlds over the coming year.
What’s occurring in 2026?
All Change, All Aboard
At the end of last year, I completely re-architected the Adytum. So rather than tiers of products, with increasing complexity and price, there are now four grades. The Outer Sanctum has three grades – Neophyte, Acolyte and Adept – and the Inner Sanctum, the grade of Initiate.
Plus all courses for the Acolyte, Adept and Initiate grades are now augmented by protocols for AI.
There’s also a new free entry-level course called Living Mindfully, Timefully & Kindfully.
Stacking in Tune with the Moon
I am so loving the creative freedom that Substack has brought, along with it being a place full of wonderful Like Minds to hang out with. I’ve now got a whole year’s content mapped out, timed to the phases of our closest planetary neighbour.
This year, I have some finishing touches to apply to the Inner Sanctum of the Adytum.
At the end of last year though, the third book in my trilogy on the Tarot emerged and will be my prime focus for the first few ’moonths’. The image is a clue of what’s to come.
I’ll be revealing what it’s about and documenting my progress in Substack – and also generating a guide on how to use AI for writing and marketing a book. This content will become a new module for the Channeling for Authors course.
I hasten to add that these are my plans but if you have any suggestions or augmentations, let me know – or if you want to share yours, I’d love to know what you are up to.
So wishing this next orbit of our home star, along with the 12 orbits of our Moon, are you best yet.
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 …
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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 complete, 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.
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
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