Still the mind. Free the soul.
Meditation, books, and weekly blessings for the inner life — from a teacher who has sat with these practices for thirty-two years.
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Meditation, books, and weekly blessings for the inner life — from a teacher who has sat with these practices for thirty-two years.
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New Book
Discover the Power of Trust
The mind will not stop at 2am.
This is the practice that quieted mine.
Read the first chapter free
Something in you already knows how to release. The work is learning to trust it.
A weekly essay and a slow read through the Ramayana. Both live on Substack.
Essays on perception and the inner life. Meditation, ancient stories, and the strange world we now inhabit. Each one asking what we are losing the ability to see.
Read the essaysWhat an ancient epic reveals about the human mind. Every retelling asks you to watch Rama, Sita, Ravana, and Hanuman from the outside. This one opens inside each character at the moment they made a choice.
Read the series
Full courses on Insight Timer. A growing library on YouTube. Companion audio for the books. Free to anyone who wants to sit.
Explore meditations
Spiritual Sense — a weekly conversation with Michael Mackintosh. Close to 150 episodes on how to quiet an overthinking mind and live from something steadier.
Listen to the podcastThirty-two years now with the Brahma Kumaris, in the Rajyoga tradition. I direct a meditation center in Florida and sit on the national leadership team.
I have written eight books on the inner life, including Free Your Mind from Overthinking. I host the podcast Spiritual Sense and teach courses on Insight Timer.
I did not plan the path from engineering to this. I only know I would not trade it.
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