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The foundation: what Happytalism is and why we're building toward 10 billion.
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Begin the work of consciousness — awareness, presence, and inner practice.
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Making Room for the Many: YVH Parts Dynamics and Fundamental Peace
A conversation between parts work, contemplative storytelling, and human flourishing, with a clear distinction between emerging practice and established evidence.
October 31, 2026
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
Sixty-Four Tales, One Map: The Vāsiṣṭha Atlas
The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga is out in two volumes, and the Vāsiṣṭha Atlas places every tale of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha in the work of healing: its trance, its wound and virtue, its stage of transformation, its measure of peace, its ally and its song.
October 29, 2026
Education
Educating for Flourishing
Bhutan taught the world to measure happiness. Its universities can teach the world how to educate for it — the full presentation of the opening REFLECT 2027 webinar at Royal Thimphu College.
October 28, 2026
Research
Five gaps in the post-2030 agenda for women, children and adolescents
What the World Happiness Foundation asked the WHO-led post-2030 evidence review to examine, and why well-being belongs in it.
October 28, 2026
Research
The Integrative Transformation Model, Peer-Reviewed
The ITM — the framework beneath the Foundation's coaching, hypnotherapy and research — is published in issue 25 of the Integral Transpersonal Journal, EUROTAS's official journal. What the paper says, and how it holds Fundamental Peace, the Six Wounds, hypnotherapy, leadership and the villages together.
October 27, 2026
Mindful Diving
The Ocean as a Path of Presence
Spain's first Mindful Diving™ workshop, at Planeta Azul (Cabo de Palos): the full presentation, the script and the music
October 24, 2026
Essays
Return to Origin
The Myth of Er, Anamnesis, and the Art of Returning to Life
October 23, 2026
Essays
The Gold in the Crack
A broken bowl mended with gold is one of the most precise images we have of Fundamental Peace — and of what it takes to heal shame.
October 21, 2026
Fundamental Peace
With No Men in the World
A student at Shoolini University answered my question about a world without fear in capital letters: WITH NO MEN in the WORLD. A reflection on fear, shame and the happiness we still owe half of humanity — and on what the Global Happiness Forum in Jaipur must mean.
October 15, 2026
Essays
The Shamed World
Shame is the hidden currency of our age, and revenge its most common exchange rate. Why our institutions are called to become shameless, and what that truly means.
October 13, 2026
Cities of Happiness
Jaipur, City of Happiness
Two days in the Pink City advanced the science and practice of happiness and wellbeing: a Governor lighting the lamp, a Mayor releasing books, students dancing on stage, and the launch of a musical about the light within each of us.
October 13, 2026
Mindful Diving
Mindfulness, Diving, and the Sacred Meaning of Water
Water, sacred scripture, and the art of attention: what the Mahabharata and other traditions can teach us about mindful diving, care, and belonging.
October 12, 2026
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