The Written WorkGene Hart
Books
On consciousness, self-knowledge, and the inner life. Books to read slowly, return to, and bring into your own experience.
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The Two Lives
How waking inside your dreams and crossing beyond the body transforms the way you live, sleep, and die
Every night, while your body sleeps, you live a second life. You dream several times before morning, and now and then you do more than dream. By the time you reach for your phone, most of it is gone.
The Two Lives is a practical guide to that other half of your life. With simple practices for the day and short pages to read at bedtime, it shows you how to remember your nights, how to wake up inside a dream and know that you are dreaming, and, when you are ready, how to go further.
It is the book of The Astral Doorway Course: everything its eight classes taught. Students of the course receive it free, in the Astral Doorway app.
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Sealing the Vessel
A Journey into the Inner Worlds
Most of us try to reach the inner worlds with a vessel full of cracks, our attention leaking away into worry, noise, and the small habits of the day. This book is about sealing those cracks: reclaiming the energy of your attention, awakening consciousness in ordinary life, and opening the door to lucid dreaming and astral projection, gently and from the ground up.
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The night runs on whatever the day has left it, and most days leave it nothing.
“I was reading it bit by bit, and upon reading the last part I was hit with so much profound love, almost as if the Lord were answering the prayer I have prayed for years now: wake me up! The words reached into my heart and lit a flame.”
“The Sealing the Vessel teaching was by far the most useful to me. … In a strange kind of way, a course about my sleeping life has led me towards waking up in my waking life, and that is invaluable.”
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Beyond Dreaming
A Guide to Awakening Consciousness through the Path of Astral Projection & Out of Body Experiences
An in-depth guide to astral projection through an understanding of consciousness itself. Rather than relying on forceful techniques or quick tricks, the book points toward an intuitive practice, grounded in meditation, awareness, and direct experience.
Its central thread runs through all of this work: to wake within the night is to wake within your life.
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As light illuminates the dark, may your awareness expand brightly to make the unknown, known.
Coming SoonThe eBook comes with the course
Awakening the Inner Light
A Path of Self-Knowledge, Stillness, and the Awakening of Consciousness
A short, gentle book for anyone who feels the mind has taken over their spiritual life. It begins with the everyday sleep we mistake for waking, and moves through the masks we wear, calm and kind self-observation, and the many selves within us, to devotion, and to a practice for falling asleep inside the light at the heart. Each chapter closes with a simple practice. It is written for people of any path, or none.
“There is a light inside you, and it is asleep.”
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December 2026eBook for students
The Wordless Teaching
Eight doorways to the illuminating void
The companion to the live course of the same name: eight chapters, one for each doorway, written in plain words for anyone who has been waiting for someone to sit with. Every student of the course receives the eBook free, in the Astral Doorway app, in December. The paperback and hardcover follow on Amazon after the course.
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Forthcoming
The library is growing.
Now being prepared: expanded, second, and public editions of
- The Serpent and the Light
- Third Quarter Initiates
- Finding the Being Beyond Diamond CastlesOn Gnostic Organizations, Masters & Inner Verification
- Releasing the Sand Mandala
and more…
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Human beings can learn to remember the night, to wake up inside their dreams, and to cross consciously into the worlds we all enter when the body sleeps.