Articles
Long-form essays, research announcements and launch notes by Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo — on Fundamental Peace, transpersonal practice, hypnotherapy and consciousness research.
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Return to Origin: The Myth of Er and the Art of Returning to Life
EUROTAS keynote essay: Plato's Myth of Er, anamnesis, the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha and Life Between Lives® practice — with the presenter's guide and two English songs.
Read →The Gold in the Crack
A broken bowl mended with gold is one of the most precise images we have of Fundamental Peace — and of what it takes to heal shame.
Read →With No Men in the World
A student at Shoolini University answered my question about a world without fear in capital letters: WITH NO MEN in the WORLD. A reflection on fear, shame and the happiness we still owe half of humanity — and on what the Global Happiness Forum in Jaipur must mean.
Read →Jaipur, City of Happiness
Two days in the Pink City advanced the science and practice of happiness and wellbeing at the 3rd Global Happiness Forum & Festival, Jaipur, 10–11 October 2026.
Read →Maria's Soul Journey — a Life Between Lives® case story
A 4 h 16 min Life Between Lives® regression and the 48 hours after: a past life in 1868, five guides, and messages of hope, forgiveness and transmutation.
Read →The Shamed World
Shame is the hidden currency of our age, and revenge its most common exchange rate. Why our institutions are called to become shameless, and what that truly means.
Read →Mindfulness, Diving, and the Sacred Meaning of Water
Water, sacred scripture, and the art of attention: what the Mahabharata and other traditions can teach us about mindful diving, care, and belonging.
Read →Lead with Heart: Building New Paradigms for Human Happiness
Reflections from the first Duke Happiness Fest on Happytalism, Fundamental Peace, and the everyday leadership practices that help people flourish.
Read →Why I Wrote The Diving Mind
How Mindful Diving, Mindful Breath and The Diving Mind connect presence, the body and the psychology of learning, fear and care.
Read →The First Dive Is a Breath
The senses as doorways to presence, the books Mindful Diving and Mindful Breath, The Ocean Within albums and why Mindful Diving™ was born.
Read →The State Is Not the Stage — the Integrative Transformation Model
Why most transformative experiences transform nothing: five stages, seven mechanisms and the Shadow–Gift–Essence engine.
Read →Two Pathways, One Inner Ground
Yoga and hypnotherapy as complementary routes toward Fundamental Peace — the Shoolini University class, with the full teaching deck.
Read →Why I Teach Transpersonal Coaching
Why I teach transpersonal coaching — what it is, what it is not, and what the sixteen-week World Happiness Academy training will ask of you.
Read →Facilitators of the Return
What the third collective session of Life Between Lives® facilitators revealed about the Return, Fundamental Peace and the Second Axial Age.
Read →The Supreme Yoga meets the science of suggestion
Summary of the published YVH paper (DOI 10.68220/whf.2026.001): Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, hypnotherapy, the seven bhūmikās and Fundamental Peace.
Read →Six Faces, One Invitation
Teaching Fundamental Peace at Shoolini University: six witnesses, yoga and hypnotherapy, and a five-step practice.
Read →Measuring What Matters? Fourteen years of the World Happiness Report
New co-authored paper (DOI 10.68220/whf.2026.002) reviewing the World Happiness Report framework 2012–2026, with special reference to India.
Read →Invest in Peace — Begin Within
International Day of Peace 2026: the four capacities of Fundamental Peace, the FP20 and the everyday architecture of peace.
Read →The Mind That Makes the World
The Supreme Yoga, the healing trance and the path to Fundamental Peace — the new book, with Talk-to-the-Book and a free ePub after the FP20.
Read →Fundamental Peace: The Source Book
The new book naming, measuring and teaching Fundamental Peace — the FP20 scale, the Ground Route, the six wounds and their virtues.
Read →The Sun Set Wearing the Moon
The eclipse of 12 August 2026, alignment, and the threshold between wound and essence.
Read →Heal the Healers: A Network of Networks
Who cares for those who care? A global network of networks for carers — and collaboration now open for Nepal–Tibet, Colombia and Venezuela.
Read →The Amber Word
Two minutes that change how diving feels: a free branching dive scenario, and the audit proving honesty is never punished — ten honesty branches, zero punished.
Read →Why Mindful Diving
Every agency teaches what to do underwater. Mindful Diving certifies presence — STILL, the amber culture, and the FP20 evidence behind it.
Read →The Ocean Within — two albums for the Mindful Experience
Eleven guided meditations in English and Spanish from the Mindful Diving Institute: Fundamental Peace, STILL, FFLN and The Blue Heart.
Read →Mindful Diving Institute — launch essay
Founding the Mindful Diving Institute: the ocean as a chamber of consciousness, breath and Fundamental Peace.
Read →The Alchemy Papers are live
Six papers mapping the Integrative Alchemy Model — laws, families of emotion, the World Tree and the Constellation.
Read →Born from the Spring
Bali, the sacred spring, and what the water teaches about returning to origin.
Read →Lucid Dreaming — mantras and the awake dream
Why lucid dreaming belongs inside hypnotherapy: mantras, thresholds and conscious sleep.
Read →Collective wisdom of the guides — MNI session 3
Insights and learnings from the third collective session with Life Between Lives® facilitators.
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