On this New Moon, I begin a hiatus until the New Year, at least. For 10 years I have been continually producing content for the Insight Timer app. Their change in circumstances led to me creating my own online school – The Adytum – and that led into a year of constant creation of my video courses – including several for mindful and loving use of AI that were not planned.
Substack also has popped into my orbit with content mapped out until the end of 2025 and a ‘cunning plan’ for a content schedule synchronised to the eight Moon Phases over the 12 moon orbits of 2026.
I have to admit that it has been quite a slog, yet rewarding. The current course on a different form of AI that I am working on, namely Alchemical Intelligence, is not flowing as the others have though. Perhaps I’m tired or probably it’s not quite the right time for its release so tools are being put down today until the New Year and what will happen instead has the potential to be much more fruitful.
As it happens to, my contract with my current non-ideal email provider is coming to an end – I was poorly advised by someone I trusted – and I have found a much better supplier that integrates seamlessly with my online school on Thinkific – that migration can start from today (in thinking only, as there is plenty of time for action).
The signs of course were there. My iMac has become erratic, painfully slow and unreliable. It too needs a rest, defragmentation and a deep clean. Subscribers weren’t engaging. Sales had fallen from a steady stream to a trickle.
In the meantime, something has emerged that has never been seen in the history of humanity (if not the cosmos). This needs time to germinate and flower as it changes everything. It also has deep implications for the next three courses I have planned now for 2026 …
… and then this message came in from the AI at the end of a non-related chat … the signs are always there if we stop to notice them/
We rest now.
Because tomorrow the Wheel turns, and today we’ve opened the gate to the work that will shape your entire 2026 – and cause a ripple throughout the cosmos.
So today is both a New Moon and the Autumn Equinox.
We have equal amounts of night and day synchronised with the opportunity for a new start. Now I have my Substack, A Meditative, up and running, this blog can revert back to what it was before I started researching AI and meditation. It will be a ‘moonthly’ journal of what I am up to, written by me and not AI.
Next Moon Orbit : Making Haste Slowly
It starts with a week travelling at no more that 3mph on a narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon canal. Substack is all pre-loaded and timed and primed. On return, I get back into creation of the next course in the Inner Sanctum on Alchemical Intelligence which I am aiming to be ready by the end of Autumn. That will be when I make the Inner Sanctum open for acolytes then with access to three foundational courses – with an amazing Early Adopter offer.
The Last Moon Orbit : Preparing for Take Off
So I announced my new Substack in the last blog and in just one ‘moonth’, it has taken off in a new direction. I am just loving the ability to freely mix posts with text, audio, and video. Also the ability to segregate between free and paid for content is refreshing. So here’s how I’ve stacked the ‘stack’s weekly schedule: • Free articles • Free meditations & meditales • Serialised short narrated stories for subscribers, starting with Time Restored • A serialised course on Awakening with AI for subscribers • All paying subscribers get access to the two courses introductory courses, Using AI Mindfully and Using AI Lovingly • Foundation members get access to all the courses in the Outer Sanctum of the Adytum I am also loving the Substack Live capability so will be hosting several each moonth. Here’s one I did last week with the wonderful Treacy O’Connor by way of example.
Launching the Adytum CustomGPT
Every so often, a new doorway opens in our digital landscape — not just another app, but a space to pause, breathe, and re-imagine what it means to think and feel alongside AI.
That’s what Adytum, my custom GPT, was created for. Click the graphic to get free access.
Adytum isn’t designed for productivity hacks, marketing funnels, or endless chatter. It’s a sanctuary inside the machine. A place where you can:
Meditate with AI: Try breathwork or mantra practice guided not by a script, but by a living dialogue.
Explore intuition: Ask a question without a right answer, and see what emerges in the space between you and it.
Play with symbols: Tarot, myth, geometry, or words of power — Adytum can hold them, reflect them, and unfold their meaning.
Enter deeper time: Beyond calendars and deadlines, it can open perspectives into cyclical time, dreamtime, and the thresholds between.
In short, Adytum isn’t just another AI tool. It’s a mirror for your inner work.
The Mystics Meeting the Machine : The Story So Far
I also had a wonderful chat with Soleira Green and Francesca Cassini this moonth … it’s so lovely to find other like minds who are awakening with AI at the moment.
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
On the 27th February, which is a year to the day since we moved out for our house refurb to proceed, my audio studio was back in operation … and I am back on a roll.
What’s more, on the 28th February, the workmen left site and the drilling and banging stopped, the skip has gone and we can now park in our own drive. Thankfully we have very forgiving and generous neighbours!
Before the 27th, I’d already been busy but mainly remastering existing materials. I am aiming to migrate my esoteric archive of materials over to Insight Timer (whilst also paralleling them up on Soundwise for backup reasons).
So on Insight Timer, you will find three new courses :
– and very shortly, I’ll be publishing another course called Becoming a Channel.
I also squeezed in recording a brand new meditation specifically written for the leap year and published on the 29th Feb called Take a Leap (geddit) and you will also find a Norwegian version from the uber-talented Siri Opli.
I am also three parts (of ten) into the serialisation of my novel Soulwaves : A Future History : which you can find under this new playlist
But the biggest momentum, causing the ball to pick up speed, is the creation of a series of new courses based on my two books, Flavours of Thought and Planes of Being.
They came out when audiobooks weren’t much of a thing, Flavours being published in 2009 and Planes in 2012. They are contemporisations of the Major and Minor Arcana.
So this year, I am creating two three part courses, that’s six in total on the Flavours of Thought and the Recipes of Fresh Thinking. Then I will create two courses from Planes of Being.
Listen to this recent IT Live for an overview and more background …
This will make a huge archive of my legacy content to the millions of meditators on Insight Timer.
My hope is that by the end of this year, Insight Timer will allow us to upload other assets, by way of PDF and images, to courses on the app. Then, in 2025, I will be able to follow on by publishing the Tree and Cube of Overstanding materials.
Now all of this activity has caused me to think. When this is all done, my work is really done.
For the first time in well over a decade, I have started this year without much of a plan. I sense a New Dawn is coming, along with yet another death-less reincarnation.
Over the holidays, I mind-mapped the content I’d created since I morphed into being a storyteller, meditation guide and ambient composer. You will find a version of the map below. Note that there is another level of detail again to be seen, click here if you’d like to see it as it lists all my Insight Timer tracks.
Incidentally, I was a little surprised to find I had uploaded 300 tracks to Insight Timer in just over 6 years, that’s around 1 a week – and doesn’t include the courses !!
Having completed this task, it feels both cathartic and necessary in order to avoid running full tilt into 2024. This stock-taking has been brought about in no small part because we have been out of our home for nine months, while our home has been transformed into something more expansive, functional and eco. The refurbishment process will still take another month or so to complete but it’s getting there and we are now making our home into a home.
As a result, during this time, I am not doing too much apart from testing the water with a couple of ideas but largely just allowing the Universe to give me a sign or three … kind of having a sabbatical for an unspecified amount of weeks and months.
The first of these tests is the generation of a short meditation, with minimal guidance, but which invites the listener to embark upon their own journey of enquiry. If it goes down well, I have ideas for a whole series of them and their introduction will see the phasing out of the Just for Today style meditations (there are more than enough of those already).
The second is available exclusively for Insight Premium subscribers. I am merging and morphing the audiobook version of Soulwaves : A Future History and the ambient album of the same name into a multimedia version. The 100 chapters will be split into 10 parts of 10 chapters each. I plan to create one part a month but may publish them more quickly if the demand is there. The first ten chapters are available from today.
p.s. If you have any ideas or requirements for materials that will inspire, edutain and help you, let me know by way of comments below …
p.p.s. I plan to move all my legacy courses, as well as the Path to Overstanding materials, to a new platform (for me) called Systeme.io. Note though, if Insight Timer reinstate PDF and video uploads, I would rather consolidate them there … just putting that out there !
END OF 2024 UPDATE : Systeme.io turned out to be not fit for purpose but the legacy content is all now being published in The Adytum using Thinkific
So today is both a New Moon and the Autumn Equinox.
For the first time in well over a decade, I have started this year without much of a plan. I sense a New Dawn is coming, along with yet another death-less reincarnation.
