By 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 SOCA : The School of Contemporary Alchemy. It will launch with 8 or more modules, including Channeling for Authors, and it will considerably expand over the course of 2025 into an archive of esoteric knowledge, made exoteric.
I have a busy but enjoyable moonth coming up ahead. Watch this space for more details.
Invest an hour of your time listening to this interview with Smita Joshi and I guarantee you will discover at least one tip which will give you that hour back …
watch [verb] : to observe, to keep a look out, to view
watch [noun] : a timepiece, a chronometer (worn on the wrist or carried in a pocket)
From when we are born until we leave the planet, time is superimposed upon us and someone or other seems to be ‘watching over you’.
We are indoctrinated with the notion of time from birth. Babies have times for feeding, changing, and bathing. Timetables regulate our school lessons. School-time all too quickly morphs into the nine to five of work-time. We intersperse our days with breakfast times, break times, lunch times, tea times, and supper times. Commuters just have to catch that train, right on time, so they can ‘clock in’ and ‘clock out’ at the end of their working day.
We have a bedtime and, before we know it, it’s time to get up again. Note that between these two times, when we are sleeping and dreaming, time takes on a different and ethereal quality. If you ever end up awake in the small hours, however, time can seem to stretch to eternity.
Our language, too, is littered with temporal references:
‘Just a minute.’
‘Give me a second.’
‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man.’
‘Another day, another dollar.’
‘That is so last season.’
‘Holding back the years.’
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
It seems that time is imposed upon us from birth right through to death, and that we cannot escape either its forward arrow or its grip. Yet, go back just 200 years or so, and nobody wore a watch. So this obsession with time is actually quite recent. In our so-called modern society, what is making this somewhat worse is that the world is permanently ‘switched on’. Before we had electric light, people snuffed out candles and went to sleep when it got dark.
The key to taking time back under our control lies in ‘watching’ ourselves internally. Firstly, take notice how the speed of time seems to vary depending on what we are doing and thinking. A busy weekend with friends seems to zoom by. An interminable wait in a doctor’s surgery seems to drag out forever. When we travel somewhere new, it seems to take longer than the journey back or the return trip. Secondly, reflect on days where you got lots done and on those days where you where pushing water up a temporal hill. Notice how you felt about those days before, during and after.
Synchronising with EMT
The passage of time is subjective and herein lies the clues on how we can control it, as opposed to it controlling us. The practice of mindfulness meditation is what opens the door to a new way of being that I call timefulness. Taking 10 minutes of ‘me time’ out each day is all that’s needed to slow time down and to get more done with less of it. With just a few days practice, we can enter Extended Me Time, or EMT. This is a luxurious state to be in where we become time lords, and of course time ladies.
When we sync with EMT, here’s what happens:
We get our creative tasks done, in what seems like ‘no time at all’
p.s. I haven’t worn a watch for years and am rarely late 🙂
If you’d like to know more about how to manage the passage of time, as opposed it it managing you, get a copy of my new book Managing Time Mindfully. It comes with free guided meditations to give you the luxury of ‘me time’.
People of the world work to all sorts of different times standards. For some of the year, the UK is on GMT, at other times it shifts by an hour to BST. I interview guests for the Zone Show podcast on AEST, EDT, PST. The five time zones of China are harmonised, for simplicity, into one with the whole territory falling under Beijing Time, or CST.
International travellers sometimes don’t know what day it is, with their body clocks jumbled by the shifting of hours!
I’d like to propose a new common and simpler time standard that all humans switch to called EMT.
EMT stands for Extended Me Time. It is the ’time zone’ we switch to when time elongates and we get more done in less time. It is a magical and creative space where we are both ’in the zone’, while also ’zoning out’.
We can enter EMT simply by beginning each and every day with 10 or 20 minutes of ’me time’ in meditation. This is far from a waste of time. I discovered in my mid-40s that the days I took this time out when so much smoother and I got so much more done. There are also many benefits to our health and wellbeing such that it is thought every minute we spend meditating gets added to our life expectancy. If true, it’s a kind of madness not to meditate.
Throughout the day, and especially while working on creative tasks, with a little practice it becomes then possible to enter the meditative state with your eyes open. We truly enter EMT when we do this as time elongates. Simply put, we begin to control the speed at which time passes by and we get more done in less time.
There is more magic to unfold when we live in EMT. We begin to tap into aha moments on demand where bright ideas that change our world arrive in less than a second. They come from ’inside time’ and ’outside space’.
The regular practice of meditation, and adoption of EMT, also makes us luckier. We begin to notice serendipities that might otherwise slip by. People and events start turn up just at the perfect time. This of course all saves bags of time.
If you’d like to enter EMT and start meditating then I get the free Insight Timer app and I have uploaded a number of free meditations to help you get into EMT.
This is the first of four sneak previews of what’s inside my forthcoming book, Managing Time Mindfully, being published on the 11th December
Temporal Takeaway #1:
It is thought that space and time were formed from the seed of the Big Bang. It took many billions of years though before time-as-we-know-it really got going. What we now refer to days and years only started when 3rd generation stars with rocky planets formed.
Temporal Takeaway #2:
On planet Earth, at least, time-as-we-know-it only started ticking when life formed around 3 billion years ago. The clock of time only ticks with the presence of an observer.
Temporal Takeaway #3:
The first pocket watches were only created in the 1675 by Christiaan Huygens. They were accurate to about 10 minutes a day. The accuracy of an Apple Watch is around 50 milliseconds.
Temporal Takeaway #4:
The need for global harmonisation of time came about from an increase in international travel by steamship and cross-continental travel with the railways. Time zones were created at International Meridian Conference in 1884.
Temporal Takeaway #5:
Seconds, minutes, hours, weeks and months are man-made and do not exist in nature. Although they allow us to run our modern world, some of us have become enslaved by the ticking of self-imposed clocks.
p.s. this blog was posted live exactly at 6:27 GMT on the 19th November, the 1st quarter of the Moon Phase
These themes and more are explored in the first quarter of my new book, Managing Time Mindfully, which is published on the 11th December — the exact date of the next New Moon.
Order your copy today and get free access to the Your Perfect Day pack of meditations, to help you get more done in less time.
By 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.
