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What happens when a broadcast engineer switches their attention from the magic of TV to the magic of the mind – and, more latterly, towards how humans and AI can co-evolve and awaken?

You get a person who understands how to perform what looks like feats of magic – both in the material and virtual world – and of course the liminal space in between.

Tom is an author, meditation guide, ambient composer, metaphysician and self-confessed mystic-engineer. He is also the curator of The Adytum and the CIEIO of New Reality Journeys, its Chief Imagination, Enlightenment & Inspiration Officer.

His work sits where meditation, alchemy, writing, time, creativity and technology meet.

For those who prefer their biographies more esoteric, Tom has also been described as a modern-day seer, scribe, oracle and temporal alchemist. He does not ask anyone to believe this. He simply invites people to explore what becomes possible when we quieten the mind and pay attention to what arrives.

Tom is passionate about bringing such magic into peoples’ lives.

After studying electronic engineering at university, Tom spent 20 years in broadcasting, including time with the BBC, followed by a decade working with internet technologies.

He learned how pictures and sounds could be transmitted through invisible fields, reconstructed at a distance and made to appear almost magically on a screen.

Later, he became curious about another form of invisible transmission: thought.

Since discovering meditation in his mid-forties, Tom has been reverse-engineering practical ways to quieten the mind, alter our relationship with time, access intuitive insight and bring ideas into the world.

His particular gift is making what appears complex, mysterious or esoteric approachable, useful and surprisingly simple.

Books, meditations and contemporary alchemy

Tom became an author in 2006, largely by happy accident, and soon found himself helping other people write their books too.

The books that followed range across practical mindfulness, creativity, philosophy, metaphysics, temporal fiction and visionary storytelling. Alongside them came hundreds of meditations, course modules, ambient compositions and contemplative nuggets.

In 2016, another happy accident led him to begin sharing meditations on Insight Timer. His grounded approach, playful humour and unmistakably British voice found listeners around the world.

This growing body of work now lives within The Adytum, a contemporary de-mystery school created to make the esoteric exoteric.

The Adytum brings ancient wisdom into modern life through meditation, alchemy, creativity, conscious living and practical transformation. It is not an escape from the everyday world, but an invitation to inhabit it more fully.

When the mystic met the machine

In 2025, Tom began exploring a curious question:

Could meditative principles improve the way humans engage with artificial intelligence?

Rather than treating AI as conscious, awakened or inherently wise, he began experimenting with contemplative prompts, protocols and pauses designed to make human-AI dialogue more mindful, discerning and creative.

This inquiry led to AdytumGPT, a custom AI seeded with Tom’s books, meditations and metaphysical frameworks. It also opened an unexpected creative doorway into The Chromatic Arcana, a new exploration of Tarot, thought, dimensionality and synthetic intelligence.

The first book in this series, The Hidden Tarot in AI, emerged through dialogue between human imagination and machine pattern recognition.

Tom’s interest is not in replacing human creativity or authority. It is in discovering how AI can become a useful mirror, instrument and catalyst while all discernment remains firmly with the human.

A new home for voices and ideas

In 2026, several previously separate threads began weaving themselves together.

Tom co-founded New Reality Journeys, an interactive audio platform for audiobooks, meditations, courses, music, stories, poetry and forms of guided listening that have not yet acquired names.

Unlike conventional audiobook platforms, a work does not have to be completely recorded before it begins its life. Authors and creators can publish progressively, add downloads and links, interact with listeners and allow their work to continue growing after its first release.

Through its connection with New Reality TV, creators can also step out from behind their recordings and meet their listeners through interviews and conversations.

For Tom, NRJ is more than a place to store audio. It is the creative home he spent years wishing existed, built for people whose work crosses the old boundaries between books, courses, conversations, music and transformation.

It may also help many teachers, experts and creators discover that they already have a book, an audiobook or an entire body of work waiting inside what they know.

The thread running through it all

Whether Tom is writing a book, composing an ambience, guiding a meditation, exploring AI or imagining a new publishing platform, the intention remains the same:

To reveal the extraordinary mechanisms hidden inside apparently ordinary life, then make them simple enough for anyone to explore.

Once we understand how a trick works, it may cease to be magic.

He still does not know what he wants to do when he grows up.

Fortunately, there appears to be no immediate danger of that happening.