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A library toward Fundamental Peace · v6

Books by Luis Miguel Gallardo

Novels, methods and mantras — one thread: remembering.

Ten new books in 2026 — led by Fundamental Peace: The Source Book and The Mind That Makes the World — joining the Hypnotherapy trilogy and two decades of work on flourishing.

PhD Scholar · Professor of Hypnotherapy · LBL® Certified · Founder, World Happiness Foundation · Co-founder, Mindful Diving Institute

New in 2026

Ten new books in 2026 — from the source book of Fundamental Peace to the novel and its mantras.

Each book can be read alone — together they form one library toward Fundamental Peace.

Fundamental Peace: The Source Book
2026 · Peacebuilders

Fundamental Peace: The Source Book

The state beneath the peace of treaties and the peace of justice

The source book of Fundamental Peace. Twenty-seven chapters and twenty-two figures: the coining, the perennial testimony across traditions, the FP20 scale, the Ground Route method, the six wounds and their virtues — and the arithmetic that carries peace from one person to ten billion.

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The Mind That Makes the World
2026 · Therapists

The Mind That Makes the World

The Supreme Yoga, the Healing Trance, and the Path to Fundamental Peace

The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha and modern hypnotherapy on the same table. Eighteen chapters in three parts — the stories, the trance, the path — with twelve construct doors into one room, the seven stairs as a heuristic map, and a forty-day practice sequence toward Fundamental Peace.

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The Transpersonal Coach
2026 · Coaches

The Transpersonal Coach

From Presence to Transmission — the complete architecture of transpersonal coaching

Book 3 of the Transpersonal Series and the core text of the coaching program. The maps: six wounds, eleven emotion families, sixty-four shadows — the I AM model completed in WE ARE. The craft: the nine movements of the hour, shown whole in a fully annotated session. The formation: eighty-three weeks from student to lineage holder. The circle: group and team coaching, from psychological safety to collective alchemy. Plus forty-five gated tools and fifteen working figures.

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The Transpersonal Alchemist
2026 · Practitioners

The Transpersonal Alchemist

From Wound to Essence — the Six Alchemy Papers and the complete architecture of inner transformation

Book 2 of the Transpersonal Series and the companion volume to The Transpersonal Leader. The Transpersonal Alchemist gathers the six Alchemy Papers published on this site into one architecture: the map of forgetting (Six Wounds · Eleven Families · Sixty-Four Shadows), the Twelve Universal Laws, the I AM integrative model, the WE ARE ecology, The Bridge and its living laboratory, and The Constellation of instruments that makes the whole system practicable.

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The Transpersonal Leader
2026 · Leaders

The Transpersonal Leader

From Shadow to Essence — a new science of conscious leadership

One of Luis Miguel Gallardo's Fundamental Books. Twenty-two chapters and twenty-four figures charting the ROUSER pathway, the Five Koshas, the Shadow → Gift → Essence transformation and the ICEF framework — a working manual for leaders ready to move from performance to presence.

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Nine Paths to One
2026 · Seekers

Nine Paths to One

A Book of Remembering — a metaphysical novel

Nine women. One old agreement. A field that has been waiting. A metaphysical novel that holds the Sixty-Four — a circle of ordinary people facing extraordinary questions. Nine paths through the same essential one.

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Sister Songs · The 64
2026 · Listeners

Sister Songs · The 64

A Global Mantra Cycle — companion to Nine Paths to One

Sixty-four women, sixty-four mantras, sixty-two cultures, four kingdoms (animal, plant, mineral, human) singing humanity into the next era. A four-album mantra cycle (Albums IV–VII, now streaming) and an interactive cosmology mapping the Meta Pets archetypes onto real women, flowers, stones and cosmic animals.

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Unlocking Your Light Within
2026 · Families

Unlocking Your Light Within

The Musical — a Meta Pets journey from shadow to light

A musical pitch and immersive companion bringing the Meta Pets archetypes to the stage. Songs, characters and a hero's journey through the 64 cosmic creatures — from shadow to gift to essence — for families, schools and seekers of every age.

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Mindful Diving
2026 · Divers

Mindful Diving

The Ocean Was Teaching Us All Along

Book 1 of The Mindful Diving Institute Library — the founding text of Mindful Diving™, the first international standard for mindful scuba diving.

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Mindful Breath
2026 · Divers

Mindful Breath

Breath Management Before, Below, Between and Beyond the Dive

Book 2 of The Mindful Diving Institute Library — breath management before, below, between and beyond the dive.

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The literary project · ninetoone.org

Nine Paths to One — a contemplative literary architecture.

Nine paths. Sixty-four sisters. Eight albums. Four books. One living library. A unified ecosystem of awakening drawn from the perennial currents of the world's great wisdom traditions. Each volume can be read alone — together, they form a single luminous arc.

  • 4
    Books
  • 8
    Albums
  • 9
    Traditions
  • 64
    Sisters
“Fundamental Peace is not the absence of pain. It is the transmutation of its energy into love and compassion.”
— Luis Miguel Gallardo

Initiative

Mindful Diving™

Co-founder of the Mindful Diving Institute, the first international standard for mindful scuba diving, an initiative of the World Happiness Foundation with the Cátedra de Ciencias Contemplativas (Universidad de Zaragoza) as research authority.

Fundamental Peace: The Source Book
2026 · New in 2026

Fundamental Peace: The Source Book

The state beneath the peace of treaties and the peace of justice

The source book of Fundamental Peace. Twenty-seven chapters and twenty-two figures: the coining, the perennial testimony across traditions, the FP20 scale, the Ground Route method, the six wounds and their virtues — and the arithmetic that carries peace from one person to ten billion.

  • The third peace

    Not the absence of conflict, not the presence of justice — the inner ground from which a person responds instead of reacts.

  • The FP20 scale

    Twenty statements, four components, five minutes. Appendix A of the book, live on this site as a free assessment.

  • The Ground Route

    Ground · Settle · Focus · Intend · Witness · Transmute · Choose · Return. Eight movements, five of them a five-minute daily engine, that turn a glimpse into a stage.

  • Six wounds, six virtues

    Abandonment, rejection, humiliation, betrayal, injustice, insignificance — and the five-step alchemy that carries each toward what it was hiding.

"Peace that depends on the arrangement holding is not peace. It is a truce with good manners."
— Fundamental Peace: The Source Book · 2026
Fundamental BookFundamental PeaceFP20 ScaleGround RouteInternational Day of Peace 2026
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Audiobook + Hardcover + Paperback + ePub · 27 chapters · 22 figures · Talk-to-the-Book online
Audience
Peacebuilders · Therapists · Leaders · Researchers · Seekers
The Mind That Makes the World
2026 · New in 2026

The Mind That Makes the World

The Supreme Yoga, the Healing Trance, and the Path to Fundamental Peace

The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha and modern hypnotherapy on the same table. Eighteen chapters in three parts — the stories, the trance, the path — with twelve construct doors into one room, the seven stairs as a heuristic map, and a forty-day practice sequence toward Fundamental Peace.

  • Five stories, retold

    Līlā, Lavaṇa, Bhuśuṇḍa, Cūḍālā and the sage himself — the Supreme Yoga argues by story, and Part One lets the stories do the loosening.

  • What a trance actually is

    Abbé Faria of Goa, the three myths, the body's assent, and what brain rhythms can and cannot yet tell us.

  • Twelve doors, one room

    Thirteen construct concordances between Sāṅkhya-Vedāntic terms and clinical constructs — concordances, never equivalences.

  • A forty-day path

    Seven practice chapters: the wish, settling, the trained imagination, old rivers, the queen's dialogues, the witness, living free.

"The world you experience is the shape your mind is currently holding — which is also why it can be reshaped."
— The Mind That Makes the World · 2026
New 2026Yoga VāsiṣṭhaHypnotherapyYVH ResearchFundamental Peace
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Audiobook + Hardcover + Paperback + ePub · 18 chapters · 3 parts · Talk-to-the-Book online
Audience
Therapists · Hypnotherapists · Yogis · Coaches · Researchers · Seekers
The Transpersonal Coach
2026 · New in 2026

The Transpersonal Coach

From Presence to Transmission — the complete architecture of transpersonal coaching

Book 3 of the Transpersonal Series and the core text of the coaching program. The maps: six wounds, eleven emotion families, sixty-four shadows — the I AM model completed in WE ARE. The craft: the nine movements of the hour, shown whole in a fully annotated session. The formation: eighty-three weeks from student to lineage holder. The circle: group and team coaching, from psychological safety to collective alchemy. Plus forty-five gated tools and fifteen working figures.

  • The maps the coach carries

    Six wounds, eleven emotion families, sixty-four shadows — the vertical anatomy of a human being, drawn for the second chair.

  • The hour, witnessed

    The nine movements of a session, then a full session annotated line by line — craft made visible.

  • Eighty-three weeks

    The complete formation arc, from foundation through mastery to lineage holder, with the vows that hold it.

  • The circle

    Group and team coaching — psychological safety, field reading, and collective alchemy in the We.

"The meta-crisis is, at its root, a crisis of conversation — and the coaching hour, done fully, is among the most consequential technologies a human being can learn."
— The Transpersonal Coach · 2026
Transpersonal Series · Book 3Coaching Program Core TextNine Movements of the Hour83-Week FormationI AM · WE ARE45 Tools
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Paperback · 5 parts · 15 figures · Talk-to-the-Book online
Audience
Coaches · Therapists · Facilitators · Team leaders
The Transpersonal Alchemist
2026 · New in 2026

The Transpersonal Alchemist

From Wound to Essence — the Six Alchemy Papers and the complete architecture of inner transformation

Book 2 of the Transpersonal Series and the companion volume to The Transpersonal Leader. The Transpersonal Alchemist gathers the six Alchemy Papers published on this site into one architecture: the map of forgetting (Six Wounds · Eleven Families · Sixty-Four Shadows), the Twelve Universal Laws, the I AM integrative model, the WE ARE ecology, The Bridge and its living laboratory, and The Constellation of instruments that makes the whole system practicable.

  • Six papers, one system

    From Wound to Essence · The Physics of the Soul · I AM · WE ARE · The Bridge · The Constellation — collected, sequenced and cross-referenced as one building in six floors.

  • The map of forgetting

    Six Wounds, Eleven Families of emotion, Sixty-Four Shadows — a clinical inquiry architecture you can actually work with.

  • The Twelve Universal Laws

    The dynamics beneath wound, emotion and shadow — and how each law becomes a virtue in practice.

  • Companion to the platform

    Every paper in the book has a living instrument on this site: the Alchemy Engine, the Compass, the Modality Matrix, the Wheel of Cycles and the Observatory.

"The wound is not the enemy of the essence. It is the door the essence chose."
— The Transpersonal Alchemist · 2026
Transpersonal Series · Book 2The Alchemy PapersWound → EssenceTwelve Universal LawsI AM · WE AREThe Constellation
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Paperback + EPUB · Six papers · Full figure set
Audience
Practitioners · Therapists · Coaches · Seekers
The Transpersonal Leader
2026 · New in 2026

The Transpersonal Leader

From Shadow to Essence — a new science of conscious leadership

One of Luis Miguel Gallardo's Fundamental Books. Twenty-two chapters and twenty-four figures charting the ROUSER pathway, the Five Koshas, the Shadow → Gift → Essence transformation and the ICEF framework — a working manual for leaders ready to move from performance to presence.

  • The ROUSER pathway

    Six pillars — Relations, Openness, Understanding, Self-Awareness, Empowerment, Reflection — the daily practice layer of transpersonal leadership.

  • Shadow → Gift → Essence

    The core transformation arc. Every shadow encoded as a signal; every signal a doorway to the gift; every gift a residue of the essence you already are.

  • 22 chapters, 24 figures

    A fully mapped manual — including Figure 19, the Five-Stage Catalyst Maturity Pathway, and the Hawkins calibration used in the ICEF platform.

  • Talk to the Book

    Every reader can ask questions and receive answers cited to chapter and page — the book made conversational at /book/transpersonal-leader.

"The transpersonal leader is not a role. It is what remains when the shadow has been walked and the essence is no longer negotiable."
— The Transpersonal Leader · 2026
Fundamental BookTranspersonal LeadershipROUSERShadow · Gift · EssenceFive KoshasICEF
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Paperback · 22 chapters · 24 figures · Talk-to-the-Book online
Audience
Leaders · Coaches · Facilitators · Seekers
Nine Paths to One
2026 · New in 2026

Nine Paths to One

A Book of Remembering — a metaphysical novel

Nine women. One old agreement. A field that has been waiting. A metaphysical novel that holds the Sixty-Four — a circle of ordinary people facing extraordinary questions. Nine paths through the same essential one.

  • Twelve Transmissions

    Twelve lines from the book — one will catch the way the body knows water. Carry the one that returns for a second look.

  • Seven Deeper Transmissions

    The Threshold, What the Hand Remembers, the Name You Carry, the Forge, the Seam, the Witness, the Return.

  • Nine Tongues, One Refrain

    “Fundamental Peace is not the absence of pain — it is the transmutation of its energy into love and compassion.” Translated by nine grandmothers, sheikhas and elders across the novel.

  • The Stone for Today

    Nine stones, nine places, one sentence carved in a language older than Spanish — one was carved for a name not yet written down.

  • A Seven-Day Practice

    The Rooms walked as a week of contemplative practice — for solo readers, for circles, for facilitators.

"There is a kind of book that arrives at a person before they ask for it. This is one of those. If you are here, your nervous system has already read the line beneath the sentences."
— Prologue · Nine Paths to One
Metaphysical NovelFundamental PeaceNine ArchetypesTransmissionsAurovilleLife Between Lives®
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Novel · Kindle + Paperback · Companion site
Audience
Seekers · Practitioners · Pilgrims
Sister Songs · The 64
2026 · New in 2026

Sister Songs · The 64

A Global Mantra Cycle — companion to Nine Paths to One

Sixty-four women, sixty-four mantras, sixty-two cultures, four kingdoms (animal, plant, mineral, human) singing humanity into the next era. A four-album mantra cycle (Albums IV–VII, now streaming) and an interactive cosmology mapping the Meta Pets archetypes onto real women, flowers, stones and cosmic animals.

  • The Wheel of the Year

    Four albums for four seasons, four directions, four elements — walked as a calendar or as oracle.

  • 64 Women · 62 Cultures

    Maya, Tibetan, Yoruba, Sami, Maori, Wixárika, Ainu, Sufi, Kabbalist, Druid — each carrying a mantra in her own language.

  • A Council of 256 Beings

    64 women, 64 cosmic animals (192 real creatures integrated), 64 Auroville flowers, 64 ancestral stones — all four kingdoms honored.

  • A Lineage of Lineages

    Sister work to Human Design, the Gene Keys and the Dream Arc — sixty-four as I Ching hexagrams, codons, yoginis around the Goddess.

"The mantra continues after the song ends."
— Sister Songs · The 64
Mantra Cycle64 ArchetypesFour SeasonsMeta PetsAuroville FlowersLithotherapy
Published
2026
Formats
EN/ES · Albums IV–VII · Web app · Spotify
Audience
Listeners · Facilitators · Meta Pets practitioners
Unlocking Your Light Within
2026 · New in 2026

Unlocking Your Light Within

The Musical — a Meta Pets journey from shadow to light

A musical pitch and immersive companion bringing the Meta Pets archetypes to the stage. Songs, characters and a hero's journey through the 64 cosmic creatures — from shadow to gift to essence — for families, schools and seekers of every age.

"From shadow to gift to essence — sung into being by the sixty-four."
— Unlocking Your Light Within · The Musical
MusicalMeta PetsShadow · Gift · EssenceHero's JourneyFamily · All Ages
Published
2026
Formats
EN · Musical · Interactive pitch · Companion site
Audience
Families · Schools · Meta Pets practitioners
Mindful Diving
2026 · New in 2026

Mindful Diving

The Ocean Was Teaching Us All Along

Book 1 of The Mindful Diving Institute Library — the founding text of Mindful Diving™, the first international standard for mindful scuba diving.

Published
2026
Audience
Divers · Instructors · Dive centres · Seekers
Mindful Breath
2026 · New in 2026

Mindful Breath

Breath Management Before, Below, Between and Beyond the Dive

Book 2 of The Mindful Diving Institute Library — breath management before, below, between and beyond the dive.

Published
2026
Formats
EN · Kindle + Paperback + Hardcover · Castilian edition: Respiración Consciente
Audience
Divers · Freedivers · Breathwork practitioners · Instructors
Hypnotherapy: The Essential Guide
2025 · Book of the trilogy

Hypnotherapy: The Essential Guide

To Fundamental Peace and Conscious Realization

More than a manual — a mentor in book form. An integrative roadmap blending psychology, neuroscience and the wisdom traditions, from a practitioner's first induction script to the heights of conscious realization.

  • Trance as a gateway

    Harness the power of trance to access the subconscious, uncover root causes of pain, and release old fears and blockages.

  • Ericksonian storytelling

    Use metaphor, indirect suggestion and story as a precise instrument of transformation.

  • The neuroscience of peace

    Brainwaves, neuroplasticity and the somatic anchors of lasting change.

  • Spiritual integration

    Weave non-dual philosophy, contemplative practice and the wisdom traditions into the therapy room.

  • A mentor in book form

    From first principles to advanced practice — induction scripts, parts work, regression and the passage to Fundamental Peace.

"From the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads to the latest in trauma therapy, from one's first induction script to the profound heights of conscious realization — Gallardo leaves no stone unturned, yet remains grounded in compassion."
— From early reader reviews
Fundamental PeaceConscious RealizationNeuroscienceEricksonianUpanishadsTrauma Therapy
Published
2025
Formats
EN · Kindle + Paperback
Audience
Practitioners · Coaches · Seekers
The Meta Pets Method
2025 · Book of the trilogy

The Meta Pets Method

64 cosmic archetypes for self-inquiry, shadow integration and awakening

A card-based system uniting ego deconstruction, shadow integration and positive psychology. 64 cosmic animal archetypes — each embodying a shadow aspect, a hidden gift and an essential core — for therapists, coaches and educators.

  • Draw

    Let symbolic play bypass the thinking mind.

  • Inquire

    Meet the shadow, the gift, and the essence.

  • Integrate

    Journal, visualize, bring into the body.

  • Flourish

    Return to daily life with a new narrative alive in you.

"Become a certified Meta Pets facilitator through the World Happiness Academy."
— worldhappinessacademy.org/meta-pets
Shadow · Gift · EssenceJungian64 ArchetypesCard-BasedSelf-Inquiry
Published
2025
Formats
EN · Color + B&W
Audience
Therapists · Coaches · Educators
Unlocking the Hidden Light
2024 · Book of the trilogy

Unlocking the Hidden Light

Hypnotherapy stories for healing, growth and fulfillment

The book that made the method real. Real client journeys — names changed, courage preserved — combining Gestalt therapy, inner-child healing, breathwork and transpersonal hypnotherapy. The origin text for everything that followed.

"Foreword by Matthew J. Brownstein — CEO of Anahat Education Group, President of the International Association of Interpersonal Hypnotherapists, and Executive Director of the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy®."
— On the foreword
Hypnotherapy StoriesReal CasesTranspersonalGestaltInner ChildBreathwork
Published
2024
Formats
EN · Kindle
Audience
Seekers · Coaches · Curious minds

Who these books are for

Each book speaks to a different doorway.

Some readers arrive through one and find the others waiting.

Seekers

Start with Unlocking the Hidden Light

For anyone longing for a more conscious, aligned, peaceful life — and ready for the inner work that actually moves the needle. The stories make the method tangible.

Practitioners

Start with the Essential Guide

For hypnotherapists, therapists and coaches looking to deepen their practice with both technique and transpersonal grounding. The comprehensive Hypnotherapy guide is your foundation.

Facilitators

Start with the Meta Pets Method

For educators, group leaders and workshop facilitators seeking a ready-to-use system. The Meta Pets Method arrives with 64 archetypes and a field-tested methodology.

From page to practice

If the books moved something, these are the rooms where that something can be met.

Hypnotherapy in practice

Regression Journeys

Childhood, womb and past-life regression — the journeys described in Unlocking the Hidden Light, facilitated one-on-one in Madrid, Miami or online.

Newton Institute Certified

Life Between Lives®

The deepest journey of all: Life Between Lives® — meeting your soul, your guides, and the purpose of this incarnation.

The Integrative Method

The approach behind every page

Coaching · NLP · Hypnotherapy, held together. The approach that runs through every page of the trilogy.

These books are not a body of work. They are a practice made shareable. Writing, for me, is how the work becomes a language others can carry.
— Luis Miguel Gallardo

Earlier works

Two decades on flourishing, leadership and the architecture of happiness.

Brands & Rousers
2012

Brands & Rousers

The 6 R's of high-performing businesses, brands and careers

A clear guide to succeeding in turbulent markets — leading with purpose, generating revenue, rousing people, building relationships, maximising reputation, and becoming resilient.

Happytalism
2024

Happytalism

A New System for a World of Happiness

The manifesto for Happytalism — a way for individuals, societies and the environment to thrive together. English edition (2024) of the Spanish original, Happytalismo (2022).

Flourishing — Essays on Wellbeing
Forthcoming

Flourishing — Essays on Wellbeing

A collection of essays from the World Happiness Foundation on what makes humans and organisations flourish.

Conscious Leadership
Forthcoming

Conscious Leadership

Practices and frameworks from a decade of certifying Chief Wellbeing Officers and convening global Agoras.

The Path of bē
Forthcoming

The Path of bē

A meditative companion to the bē collection — freedom, energy, timeless experiences and the practice of being.

Questions about the books

Where should I start?+

If you want the whole map in one volume, begin with Fundamental Peace: The Source Book — and take the free FP20 to receive its ePub. If you are new to this work, Unlocking the Hidden Light makes the method tangible through real stories. Practitioners start with Hypnotherapy: The Essential Guide; leaders with The Transpersonal Leader; facilitators with The Meta Pets Method; divers with Mindful Diving.

Are the books available in Spanish?+

Yes, a growing number. Paz Fundamental: El Libro Fuente and La mente que hace el mundo are on Amazon in Spanish; El Alquimista Transpersonal is available in Spanish on this site; Happytalismo is the Spanish original of Happytalism. More Castilian editions follow — switch this page to ES to see them. Luis facilitates sessions in both languages.

Are there e-book and audiobook versions?+

Every published book has a Kindle edition, and most also come in paperback. Fundamental Peace: The Source Book and The Mind That Makes the World are also available as hardcover, audiobook and ePub. Each book page lists its formats.

Do you do book talks or workshops based on them?+

Yes — regularly. Workshops on The Meta Pets Method run through the World Happiness Academy. Hypnotherapy trainings map to the University Program. For private book clubs, organisational talks or custom trainings, please get in touch.

Begin beyond the page

Every path leads to the same root. Begin where you are.