thoughtful raven books

the clubhouse for authors & readers in practical spirituality

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welcome

We’re here to give a home to practical spirituality books of all genres. This includes coaching, self-help, poetry, and any topic with a soulful foundation. Our authors are map-makers for the landscape of spirituality, and way-showers for your own unique path.

We offer training and support for writers to create and publish their books, and we host books from any author that meets our criteria for quality and content. Join us as a reader, a writer or an author – or all three!

what's new...

exciting news

Thoughtful Raven is undergoing a facelift.

Over the next days and weeks, you’ll notice some big changes as we clear out the old and make space for the new.

We’re moving our focus to offering a clubhouse for readers, writers and authors of spiritually-inclined and spiritually informed books. That covers coaching, healing, psychic skills, professionalism and all kinds of personal development. It might come in the form of a novel, a journal, poetry or prose. It could be serious or lighthearted. Regardless of the form, our books offer a gentle step into the expansiveness of realising how practical spirituality is, and how spiritual practicality is.

Of course, The Complete Book of Awakening is still here – and you can buy the paperback direct from us. 

Now, we’re inviting in applications from authors who’d like us to promote their book (for a very affordable annual fee) and writers who would like help getting their book into form.

If something looks a little broken, give us an hour or so – if it’s still broken, give us a shout and we’ll have a look at what’s been missed. 

You’ll see all our book pages have had a wee polish, with more updates to come in other areas. If there’s something not here that you’d like to see, let us know. 

our authors...

Our authors are our stars. Whether their book grew with us or not, whether it’s using our publishing brand or not, we love them all.

We promote them, we offer them space on our blog, we keep nagging for their next book.

If you’d like to join them, let us know.

our books...

Maybe you’d like to see your book here, or perhaps it’s time to start writing?

our courses...

We offer a growing selection of courses and free resources for our books, all alongside Spirit Guide Academy’s school for practical spirituality.

Courses and free resources for The Complete Book of Awakening are now owned by Wild Fig Solutions.

From our blog...

Are You Chasing the Bliss?

Are you getting glimpses of bliss (even quite long ones), interspersed with drops into something like despair or disconnection?   There’s a thing I call the “nondual flip-flop” – but it’s a general spiritual phenomenon.   What happens is: 1. You have genuine insight into a deeper truth. 2. That comes with a sense of relief, because it feels so nice compared to your daily life. 3. Relief + insight into truth = bliss. 4. Bliss naturally burns out, like a cut flower will die off. 5. And then daily life feels even worse by comparison. 6. Until the next insight.   Underlying this is something that’s actually promoted in some spiritual circles – the idea that truth can only be experienced in short glimpses.   Which simply isn’t true.   A stable awakening is not only possible, but the most natural thing. In essence, a stabilised awakening is like joining those glimspes together, and bringing the mind on-board too.   The single issue that gets in the way of stabilisation is chasing the bliss.   Because as awakening moves into the foreground of life, the gap from daily life to insight is smaller – which means less relief, and

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