by Tom Evans | Apr 23, 2020 | Timing
A ‘moonth’ ago, I wrote a slightly morose blog, as if it might have been my last one.
In uncertain times, I took actions as if there might be no tomorrow. Another moonth on and we can now see some of the trajectory, a sneak peek at a way out and a glimpse at a new world that might appear on the other side. Perhaps we will travel less, fret less, pay NHS workers more, value family and friends even more.
What is somewhat heartwarming is that without me creating anymore content at all, I have already left a significant legacy behind. This moonth, my listens on Insight Timer passed 3 million.
It’s clear too that I have much still to deliver … below is a collation of my new output since the last blog and, if anyone is wondering, this level of output consistently over five years is how you get to 3 million listens.
Opening Up in a Lock Down
So in the last blog, I said I aimed create a new ambient track called Ocean’s Rise, a new guided meditation as well as at least two more podcasts. The so called ‘lock down’ meant that rather more than this popped out.
You can listen to Soul Entanglement here, as well as the follow on guided meditation called Soul Talk that wasn’t planned … and see what else came along below.
Three More Ambient Tracks
Siren’s Call features the voice of Norwegian artist, Siri Opli – along with some dolphins – calling our hero from the book, Shen, across the sea to her. The dolphins are calling from a planet 55 light years away.
Oceans Rise was an amazing co-creation where Piers Ward, my guitar teacher, asked some ‘questions’ to which Belén Prado, my native American flute teacher, provided some answers. I acted as producer to create an ambient background for their amazing music to sit in. Listen to the result here.
Lagrange uses a pseudo-surround sound effect to swirl from both left and right as well as to the front and back. A must listen with headphones on and a return to a solo performance.
The Art of Winefulness
I have had the notion of writing a book on winefulness for some time. It occurred to me that a guided meditation would provide a welcome bit off light relief during these times.
I have also collated and curated ten meditations to help people get through lock down whilst also opening up.
Check out Meditations for the Lock Down
Enlightened Conversations …
The Zone Show podcast is well and truly out mothballs. This moonth has seen two conversations with Insight Timer meditation guides, Keziah Gibbons and Pablo Arellano.
Keziah Gibbons gives us a Tarot reading for our time and Pablo Arellano explains how music opens the door to enlightenment.
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
So next moonth, assuming we are all still here, I plan to create more ambient tracks, more meditations and to do more podcasts.
… but something else is stirring, I have oodles of esoteric information which has not really seen the light of day that initiate a new way of being.
My soul has told me that Now is the Time !
Join the Soulwaves Facebook group to keep up with what’s going on …
Postscript : Soul Entanglement and Soul Talk Watercolours
Since drafting this blog, the artist Siri Opli has just created these two art works inspired by these two meditations – both watercolours available from www.siriopli.com
by Tom Evans | Mar 24, 2020 | Expanding
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.
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!
by Tom Evans | Jan 31, 2020 | Expanding
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.
This one will be an Abundance Wave!
Wave #2 : Creating Ambience
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.
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.
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).
by Tom Evans | Dec 21, 2019 | Expanding
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 – called Just 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.
It’s available for pre-order now in paperback, hardback and ebook.
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.
by Tom Evans | Aug 31, 2019 | Scribing
Artwork by Siri Stiklestad Opli
The month of August has become a big handle turning exercise. September augurs more of the same.
The reason being is that 35 of the 100 chapters of Soulwaves are now narrated. I make no bones about it, it is a huge task and big ask, with no shortcuts.
While it might sound like a lot of hard work, it does feel I am taking my hands off the wheel and coasting down hill to a glorious destination. Apart from anything, I am really enjoying reading my own book back and remembering things I’d forgotten I’d wrote.
Reading a book out loud is simply the best and most thorough way to proof read a book. Here’s why:
#1. If I can read it out loud, a reader can’t read it ‘in loud’. It won’t scan well.
#2. I am spotting forward references I set up in earlier chapters I wrote many months ago that I can pick up and develop subtly in later chapters.
#3. You spot errors even the best editor/proof reader may not have spotted. I’ve found loads and suspect there are more.
August also saw two weeks off with some family support commitments. Due to ongoing support commitments, I plan to have the next third of the book narrated by the time I blog next and the final third completed by the end of October.
This will lead to print and ebook production in November which in turn means publication should be early December.
One of the tricks I use, which is also one I use in writing, is to record the very ending words first. This is the poem I wrote many years ago to describe the essence of what a Soulwave is. It wraps up the book but there’s no spoiler alert as it gives nothing away about the actual ending. Merely it describes how Soulwaves are the fabric of the Universe.
You can listen to it free on Insight Timer …
Soulwaves : A Poem on Entanglement
… also, you can listen to two new meditations on the app this month and a new short story from The Germinatrix and a musical mindful podcast.
Take Your Hands Off the Wheel
Count Your Riches
Moderating Your Mindberg
Mindful Beats With Tyson Baird
p.s. if all of this output seems quite a lot in just one month, it’s just an example of what happens when you take your hands off the wheel
by Tom Evans | Aug 5, 2019 | Expanding
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.
See 1 Million Listens for some more background on the journey …
