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.

I reached a point I that I call the Plateau of Diminishing Returns, where all my efforts, spiritual techniques, religious methods, and even my pride was exhausted.

Making that transition was a messy affair, but it's from this place of stark honesty that true inquiry began.

My path has also involved some confusing years navigating the complexities (and often the collective misinterpretation) of spiritual seeking, including the pitfalls of spiritual groups and traditions, where I grappled with collective unconsciousness that made those environments seem appealing, or that they held a fundamental truth.

My own journey, which included a sudden awakening, followed by a period of intense turmoil, and some guided exploration using the fetter model, I realised what many realise, 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 email dialogue using the fetter scheme, but very often adapt to working in other ways, and meeting the seeker where they are at. 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.

What Is No-Self →

Did I have a thought for the place called home? What could it be if not the very place from whence I began? Before even the vocabulary itself and the thus very notion of beginnings, middles and endings; before space, time and the 'other' dimensions.

It was amongst the throes of form where confusion descended upon my mind and turned me into a dithering, neurotic mess, and the world gladly obliged in this endeavour.

Having found my home, my mind settles, but my body continues to meander through the world of form, holding a heart of joy to those who are seeking their own place of untouchable rest.

- Mark Shaw