Hello, I'm Mark Shaw.

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, 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.

This webiste contains many of my notes from over the years, cobbled together into some sort of coherent, rudimantary structure. I’m still writing some of the content, so you’ll see some empty pages. It’s not perfect, but it’ll bloody do.