About

I am not interested in spirituality as decoration. I am interested in waking up.

There is a great deal of beautiful language in the spiritual world, and a great deal of it changes nothing, because it stays in the mind as one more thing to think and admire. What I care about is the part that actually transforms a person, the direct perception beneath the words, the experience you can verify for yourself without taking anyone’s word for it, mine included. The teachers I trust are the ones who point you back to your own experience rather than binding you to theirs. That is the kind of teacher I try to be.

So my work is not about giving you more to believe. It is about helping you see, and helping you remember something that was never really lost: that you are not the noise in your head, you are the silent awareness underneath it, and that awareness is closer to you than your own breath.

For several years I have shared this through the Astral Doorway, my YouTube channel, where I teach astral projection, lucid dreaming, the inner work of meeting and dissolving the ego, and the practical art of becoming present. Much of it is free, and always will be. It has grown into a community of hundreds of thousands of sincere people from every corner of the world, many of whom write to tell me they had been searching for years for someone who would speak about these things plainly, without dogma and without performance.

I am the author of Beyond Dreaming, a guide to astral projection and out-of-body experience that takes a different path from most books on the subject. Rather than handing over forceful techniques and quick tricks, it teaches you to understand the mechanics of consciousness itself, so that your own intuitive practice can unfold naturally. Its heart is that same quiet truth: that astral projection, lucid dreaming, and the awakening of consciousness are not three separate things, but one path. I have written other books as well, each one an attempt to put something almost wordless into honest language.

Years before the channel, as a philosophy student in Manchester, I wrote about the Dalai Lama’s visit to the city and his teaching on meditation and compassion: “The Dalai Lama and Buddhist Science”, published by Waking Times in 2013.

I founded Gnosis Cebu, a small spiritual school here in the Philippines, and with my family and our community we are building something I have wanted for a long time: a retreat center and healing sanctuary in the quiet mountains of Cebu, a place where this inner work can be lived in person, and where sincere seekers from anywhere in the world can come to do the kind of deep work that can only really be transmitted face to face.

I will be honest about something, because honesty is the only currency worth anything in this work.

Spiritual awakening came to me at eighteen, and at twenty, I was initiated into a particular tradition, which I stayed with for five years, and I owe it a great deal. But over the years I grew disillusioned, not with the inner work, which is real, but with what happens when living truth gets frozen into an identity, an institution, a structure, a set of forms to defend and belong to. The moment a teaching becomes something you must believe in order to belong, it has already begun to die, and it quietly becomes one more thing for the ego to hide behind.

If you are identified with a group, you cannot find God.

So I have stepped beyond the labels, and what I teach now I do not name with any system at all, because the truth underneath them was never the property of any of them. It belongs to everyone. It does not belong to any tradition. I have faced a lot of pushback, even by those who consider themselves enlightened. My only loyalty is to what is real, and to pointing you toward it as directly and as honestly as I can. My work involves doing this in language anyone can follow, whether you have spent thirty years on a path, or have never sat still in your life.

That is the whole of it. I am not here to gather followers, or to be admired, or to sell you a better version of yourself. I am here because I found something quietly extraordinary, and I cannot keep it to myself, and I would like to help you find it too, in your own experience, where nobody can ever take it from you.