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.
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 can adapt to working in other ways. 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.
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