To navigate and survive in the world, we create the ego. Functioning like a mask, the ego is our protective shell with which we meet external reality. This is healthy and necessary up to a point—until we believe the mask is all we are. When we realise that there is more to us than the mask, an inner search begins. “Who am I?”

Personal and spiritual development is about seeking the answer to that question by slowly letting the ego mask fall away, step by step. At the same time, we connect with our authentic Self, which supports the inner enquiry. This connection may take us beyond the ego and its worldview into a new and wider understanding of ourselves and life. 

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Coming Home: Awakening through the Stillness into the Living Light tells the story of my spiritual awakening out of the ingrained behaviour patterns, thinking, and habits that controlled and directed my life for thirty-eight years, until my first wake-up call at a cinema in 1995. Through the book's five sections and twenty-five chapters, I take the reader on a journey of increasing self-awareness and insight activating the mind, body, spirit, and heart. This knowledge, and the practices and exercises included, are based on my personal experience of awakening, my training as a therapeutic counsellor, my clinical observations with clients, and my awareness of others as a meditation and spiritual teacher.