I’ve started posting on Substack and am finding it a lively space for engaging with others exploring responses to the metacrisis shaping our lives.
Please subscribe (free) and join the dialogue and together craft an intelligent collective response.
facetsofthediamond.substack.com/p/an-emergin...
I've just emailed "Write To Your MP: Make the National Commission on Electoral Reform Real" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/wr... @OpenBritainHQ
Is that an invitation?
Our "Space Between Us" launch with Anne Sweet & Jeff Carreira explored the transformational potential of the living field that moves between us. 🎧 Recording: emergenceeducation.com/programs/the... 🌀 Groups: www.between-us-groups.com/join-us #TheSpaceBetweenUs #RelationalSpirituality #LivingField
INVITATION TO A BOOK LAUNCH
"The Space Between Us" was born from a small group exploring what becomes possible when we meet beyond self and story.
Join us for the free online book launch
🕊️ Saturday 1st November (Sunday 2nd in Aus/NZ)
🔗 emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
I’m pointing back at you.
"...
I am a Signpost
pointing you back
to the self you have always been.
I want to meet you
standing in your own authority
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Full poem → petermitchell.life/signpost
#poetry #awakening #authenticity #headlessway
Watch this - it is crucial to our times
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Surprised myself — I’ve written a book! 📖
“The Space Between Us: Awakening Together in a Fractured World” just came out via Emergence Education.
Available now on Amazon as kindle or paperback:
If you read it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads would mean a lot 🙏
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #BookLaunch
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"Once you recognise all reference points as illusory,
you rest—simply—
in this moment of creation."
—from my new poem Open to Infinity 🌋
(full poem here: www.petermitchell.life/open-to-infi... )
Tom Hodgkinson at 'The Idler' joked that “living in the moment” just makes us flaky—late for dinner, losing keys.
But the present isn’t flimsy. It’s a boundless field where past & future are creatively woven into Now.
Poem here → www.petermitchell.life/boundless-pr...
#TheIdler #BoundlessPresent
The Book - a new poem
Not the owner.
Not even the author.
Just the vessel, the guardian.
The Book.
www.petermitchell.life/book
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“Ganpati Bappa Morya! On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may the remover of obstacles bless us with clarity, courage, and peace. Today I immersed an ice Ganesha in my garden bird bath—a small ritual of returning form to the formless.”
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...The fear of the droplet of water
losing itself in the ocean.
It is another metaphor
that misleads.
The droplet
is always
just the ocean.
Only the ocean is real...
Read the full poem 'Surrender' → www.petermitchell.life/surrender
#Poetry
#Contemplation
#Surrender
#Nonduality
#Awakening
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“To recognise uniqueness as the signature of the universal is to release the creative spark between the poles of paradox." Read the full poem "The Other" → www.petermitchell.life/the-other
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#TheOther
#SacredConnection
#UnityInDiversity
#SpiritualPoetry
If you always start from realising you know nothing - then your genuine curiosity will lead you past your mind's complacency into a living reality
Thank you - I thought it was about time
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A hymn of praise.
No strategy.
Only surrender.
Presence sparkles in the only-ever now....
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to read the whole poem:
www.petermitchell.life/paean
#poetry #presence #wonder #now #nature
Once Upon an Awakening
The metaphors we inherit shape the way we seek—and what we miss.
This essay explores how pre-verbal thought frames our experience of waking up.
www.petermitchell.life/once-upon-an...
(Companion piece: Breathing the Mystery)
#WakingUp #SpiritualInquiry #MetaphorsMatter
Beyond Resting
Even “resting in being” can be a subtle holding on.
What happens when even that dissolves?
A new poem on the ungraspable heart of awareness:
www.petermitchell.life/beyond-resting
#PoetryOfAwareness
#Nonduality
#BeyondSelf
#LettingGo
#Refractions
#bhava
Just "letting everything be as it is" is the ultimate 'get out of jail FREE' card - works every time.
Gāthā
A gāthā is a short, poetic verse — part invocation, part reminder.
In Buddhist traditions, they’re used to return us to presence in the midst of life.
This one arrived as I sat down on my cushion, before the silence began.
www.petermitchell.life/gatha
“The system that is poisoning our river, is poisoning our minds”
✨ New website is live: petermitchell.life ✨
An evolution of my original blog, Facets of the Diamond offers poems, reflections, and essays shaped by silence and lived experience.
Not answers—just invitations to look again.
Come linger a while…
#FacetsOfTheDiamond #spiritualwriting #awakening #mystery
Signed
RE-ENTRY
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🛰️ “.......
All that is—
extra,
added,
temporary,
phoney,
redundant,
personal—
burns away
as we
spiral back
into the sun
of our own
Being.”
Spiritual transformation as re-entry.
🪐 Read the full poem: 🔗https://www.petermitchell.blog/re-entry/
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#PoetryOfAwakening
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
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When I stop
trying
to catch myself
in concepts,
a profound
understanding
of not-knowing
fills awareness.
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The utter futility
of fixing essence
as substance
flares
in a radiant flash.
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To read the complete piece, go to:
www.petermitchell.blog/catch-me-if-...
#Unknowing
METAMORPHOSIS
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I am becoming
a stranger
to myself.
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My comfortable avatar,
my resting self,
my go-to default,
is dissolving—
fading into
transparency,
redundancy.
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to read the complete post: www.petermitchell.blog/metamorphosis/
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#Metamorphosis
#SpiritualPoetry
#AwakeningInProgress
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HANDLE WITH CARE
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Be careful what you bring
to this moment.
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In our compulsive
self-absorption
and care-less-ness,
we allow our casual moods
to colour—
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To read the complete piece. go to: www.petermitchell.blog/handle-with-...
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#BeingPresent
#SacredOrdinary
#SacredPoetry
#BeingHuman