A Guide to Life

But, one day, you realise that no matter how much you seem to do, have, please, or achieve in the outside world, you're left with a sense of suffering, longing, or lack.

What society often fails to tell you is that there is a both a material and spiritual dimension to your life: a material and spiritual path. Fulfilment, well being, and quality of life aren't simply found, then, in the material world outside of yourself, but also arise from the spiritual, immaterial world within yourself.

The material and spiritual path provides you then with a different set of perspectives, experiences, and priorities in life, which can contribute to a more expansive sense of reality.

This dual perspective can help you to live with more freedom, autonomy, meaning, compassion, flexibility, fulfilment, and mastery, as you begin to relate to your life through two distinct, but complementary, 'lenses'.

But, coming to understand the two paths can be a challenge. There are many received ideas, theories, wisdom traditions, spiritual paths, religions, and philosophies, and many conflicting belief systems and teachings, which make it hard to grasp what the two paths, and life itself, are all about.

My book offers a solution to this. It provides a simple, poetic guide to understanding the material and spiritual path of life, without religious overtones or specific bias.

First, it compares how your life can be seen, and experienced, differently from the perspective of each path, in terms of:

What Guides You (Source or Society and Ego)

The Nature of Self (True Self or Created Self)

Your Source of Energy (Spirit or Willpower)

Response to Feelings (Explored or Ignored)

Quality of Being (Wealth or Poverty)

Everyday Experiences (Living or Existing)

Your Becoming (More or Less)

Your Health (Promoted v Impacted)

It then explains how and why the two paths coexist, highlighting the importance of realising your spiritual Self in material life.

With beautiful illustrations throughout, it's easily read within one sitting or its sections can be contemplated over time.

Ultimately, this is a guide for seeing your life, and path to fulfilment, more clearly and is ideal for those new to the spiritual journey, and for those seeking some direction or inspiration in life.

In those times when you grow distracted by the outside, material world it can help you to reorientate, remember, and refocus. In those times when you feel lost, stuck, or in despair it can offer a renewed sense of perspective, and hope, in life.

I trust that it will serve you, and your journey, well.