Melanie Barrett

life for most, whether they are conscious of it or not, feels like it is subtly organised around a single assumption: that “I” or 'my' life is not quite perfected enough yet. 'I' am on my way to better. I will relax and be happy when.... Something in experience may feel slightly off—tight in the body, uncertain, heavy, or incomplete—and almost immediately a translation happens: this needs improving! I need to work on this! I am on my way to being okay. When ....improves I'll be ok. Without...

Sunset on our recent trip to Kirra Through my journey of Awakening there’s been a movement in my own experience over time that I can only really describe as a kind of circling. Not a straight line of understanding, but something more fluid—expansions, collapses, clarity, confusion, depth, simplicity—and then a quiet return. At times I’ve been deeply absorbed in questions about reality, the self, consciousness, truth. Questions like: what is real? what am I? is anything actually as it...

There are moments in life when something opens within us, and we remember. Not as a fleeting thought or a belief, but as a direct knowing. At our core, we are love—unconditional, boundless, and untouched by the challenges of life in a physical body. Many who have brushed against the edge of death speak of it. They describe leaving their bodies and being met by a love so vast and complete that they don’t want to return. Yet, we do return. We come back into our bodies, back into what seems like...