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Featured · Essays
The Ocean Within: Two Albums for the Mindful Experience
Eleven guided meditations. Two languages. One arc of a diving life — the Mindful Diving Institute releases The Ocean Within and El océano interior, now streaming everywhere.
August 19, 2026
consciousness
Narcissist vs Psychopath: How to Tell the Difference
Narcissism and psychopathy overlap but are not the same. Here is what separates them, the signs people actually notice, and what conscious leadership does about both.
August 16, 2026
consciousness
Family Scapegoat: How Scapegoating Works in Families and Organisations
What a family scapegoat is, why one person ends up carrying the blame for a whole system, the signs to look for, and how families and teams can interrupt the pattern.
August 16, 2026
consciousness
The Law of Vibration: What It Means and How to Practice It
The Law of Vibration says everything is in motion, and that your inner state shapes what you notice and attract. Here is what the principle means and four ways to practise it.
August 16, 2026
Essays
Facilitators of the Return
Life Between Lives, Fundamental Peace, and the Second Axial Age — reflections for the 2026 MNI World Conference.
August 15, 2026
Essays
The Sun Set Wearing the Moon
Witnessing the eclipse of 12 August from Murcia — sun, moon and horizon meeting at the threshold, as we build the Mindful Diving Institute with Fundamental Peace as our compass.
August 13, 2026
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The Ocean Was Teaching Us All Along
Introducing Mindful Diving™ and the Mindful Diving Institute — the world’s first global wellbeing standard for diving, its open Standard, the five-level Descent pathway, and an invitation to the Founding 100 dive centers.
August 5, 2026
Books
The Transpersonal Coach: the book beneath the coaching hour
A new book from World Happiness Press completes the Transpersonal Series and becomes the core text of the TransPersonal Coaching Program — the maps, the craft, the formation and the circle of transpersonal coaching.
August 5, 2026
Essays
The Ocean Is a Meditation Hall: mindful diving and the path to Fundamental Peace
Every diver carries a secret they rarely name. Diving trains the four capacities of Fundamental Peace — breath, buoyancy, silence and care — one immersion at a time.
August 1, 2026
Essays
The Moon Beneath the Water: night diving, rescue and the alchemy of depth
A first-person essay from Bali — a full-moon night dive, rescue training, and the seven practices the ocean teaches about calm, care and transpersonal leadership.
July 29, 2026
Research
The Alchemy Papers: A Complete Architecture for Transpersonal Therapy and Coaching
Four new papers by Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo bring together the Six Wounds, the Emotional Alchemy Mandala, the 64 Shadows, the Twelve Universal Laws, the koshas, the states of consciousness, and ancestral wisdom into one coherent map — from suffering to flourishing.
July 24, 2026
Consciousness & Inner Work
Born from the Spring: Ubud, the two dragons of Bali, and the day the water spoke
A first-person essay from Ubud — Tirta Empul, the beringin, the Balinese triads, and what the island returns to us about origin, healing and the ten billion.
July 20, 2026
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