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Author of Harmonic Being: An Introspective Journey
A memoir on identity & perception.
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Touching down in Mexico City felt like slipping into the lungs of an ancient beast, still very much alive.

Then a final thinning of cloud, and it appeared: a jewel box flung open across the valley floor, sprawling in every direction. Twenty six million beating hearts, vibrating beneath the wings.

From Harmonic Being: An Introspective Journey

#booksbooksbooks #méxico #ancientgods by @paulmarshall.author

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2 days ago

“A chaos goblin wanting banana bread is the perfect response to writing block.”

#booksbooksbooks #creativewriting #lovely taken in Sitges by @paulmarshall.author

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4 days ago

Rest is not a luxury, it’s a life skill. by @paulmarshall.author

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5 days ago

A hero by any other name.

His government tied him to a post. He still refused the rifle.

Archibald Baxter was a farmer from Otago, New Zealand. He believed war was wrong.

Conscription arrived in 1916. Archie was called up. He refused. He was arrested and imprisoned.

In 1917 the government put him and other objectors on a troopship and sent them to the war against their will.

In France he refused the uniform and every order. The army answered with Field Punishment No. 1: hands bound, tied to a post, left out in the weather. Soldiers called it “the crucifixion”. Then he was forced towards the front line.

He did not break. His health did. In 1918 he was declared unfit and sent home.

He returned to farming, married Millicent Brown and raised two sons. One became the poet James K. Baxter. Archie recorded it all in his book, We Will Not Cease. He died in 1970, aged 88.

Thousands showed courage by fighting. Archie Baxter showed it by refusing.

Had you heard of him?

#love #nowar #peaceful #harmonicbeing #booksbooksbooks by @paulmarshall.author

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8 days ago

Two new things, made to sit side by side.

HARMONIC BEING QUARTERLY
A magazine of esoteric thought and embodied practice.

HARMONIC BEING IN CONVERSATION
A podcast with specialist guests.

Since the book came out, I have been asked for more. More on the body and its energy, ancestry and perception. More voices alongside mine. This is my answer.

Four times a year, on the solstices and the equinoxes, writers and practitioners from across the esoteric field share what they know.

Each one writes for the Quarterly, then joins me on the podcast to talk about it.

Read the article. Hear the author in conversation.

The first issue arrives on the winter solstice, 21 December.

Be the first to read it, free. Join the newsletter through the link in my website;

Paulmarshallauthor.com

#newmagazine #newpodcast by @paulmarshall.author

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12 days ago

We are often the birds seeing the ultraviolet in a world that insists everything is black and white. And when you try to explain the colours you see to a world that only acknowledges the monochrome, you are often met with confusion, dismissal, or in my case as a child, punishment.”

From Harmonic Being: An Introspective Journey by Paul Marshall
Chapter Ten: Neurodivergence & Differentiated Perception

#adhd #bookworm #highlysenitivepeople #harmonicbeing by @paulmarshall.author

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15 days ago

“I became very aware from a young age that I didn’t quite fit in. Other children seemed wary of me, and I often felt the unease adults seemed to have in my company. I felt different, not socially alone, but vibrationally. I was a cuckoo in a nest I intuitively knew wasn’t meant for me.”

For years I read that as proof something was wrong with me. A diagnosis in my fifties gave me a different reading.

“You are not wrong for being here. You are never less than for feeling it all. You are simply a frequency this world is still learning how to receive.”

From Harmonic Being: An Introspective Journey. Link in bio.

#HarmonicBeing #Neurodivergent #ADHD #Belonging #HighlySensitive taken in Sitges by @paulmarshall.author

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16 days ago

Doing your best sometimes looks very different from the original plan. Authentically understanding a person you care about who is neurodivergent in some way, may be struggling with a set of circumstances that looks perfectly easy on the outside looking in.

Sometimes it means not personalizing an outcome that isn’t what you expected and takes a change of plan to accommodate that individual so they feel safe. And that’s ok.

It’s about empathy & understanding, it’s about not making the other person feel even worse in the moment. Especially if you are ADHD in some way yourself and wading through Rejection Sensitivity or stuck in your feelings.

It may require you to self regulate. Can you do that?

Learning to understand and not necessarily be understood takes time & practice.

#adhd #harmonicbeing #innerpeace #consciousness taken in Sitges by @paulmarshall.author

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17 days ago

Meet The Sigil Witch of Sussex

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#bookworm #esoteric #spirituality by @paulmarshall.author

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18 days ago

The Highest Form of Power
Is Detachment. Stop reacting. Stop chasing. Stop begging. Stop explaining.

Stop forcing. And finally, you start living peacefully, and for yourself.

#energy #bookworm #harmonicbeing #writer taken in Sitges by @paulmarshall.author

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19 days ago

Cooking is a love language to me taken in Sitges by @paulmarshall.author

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