Hello, I'm Mark Shaw. Welcome.

This website, and my work, is dedicated to a singular, profound exploration: seeing that the various layers of your identity might not be what you think they are.

Many of us reach a point—what I sometimes call the "Plateau of Diminishing Returns"—where all our efforts, spiritual techniques, religious methods, and even our pride is exhausted. Making that transition can be a messy, elongated affair, but it's often from this place of stark honesty that true inquiry can begin.

My path has also involved a couple of confusing years navigating the complexities (and often the collective misinterpretation) of spiritual seeking, including the pitfalls of a spiritual groups and traditions, where I grappled with collective unconscious forces that made those environments seem appealing, or that they held a fundamental truth . You can read more about that by clicking here.

A man with a shaved head and beard, wearing a black and brown Rab jacket, standing near the ocean with wind turbines in the background.

My own journey, which included a sudden awakening, followed by a period of intense turmoil, and subsequent guided exploration through the ten fetters, has shown me that it was never actually about obtaining various states, or silently farting into a zafu cushion, but to be comfortable with immediate everyday experience, and to live-out the totality of life in the fullest sense, no matter how challenging it might be.

I work within a personalised and intimate one-to-one emial dialogue using the fetter scheme. I hold personal one-to-one sessions here at the house in Colchester, UK, and personal Zoom sessions both of which can be booked here. My partner and I also hold small groups and day retreats at the house and they can be booked here.