I live in two worlds.
The first is the world we all share—the one of schedules, to-do lists, and ordinary conversations. The world where I go to the grocery store, pay my bills, and make sure my cat Gwaihir gets fed on time. It’s the real world, the one where logic and reason reign supreme.
But there’s another world too.
It’s the world behind the curtain, the one just beneath the surface of things. A world where myths breathe, where symbols speak, where magic is real if you know how to listen. It’s the world where I do my best work—the space between the conscious and the unconscious, where doors appear when none existed before.
This is the world of hypnosis.
When I step through that Portal, everything changes.
Time bends. Words become spells, transforming hesitation into confidence, fear into courage, wounds into wisdom. The right phrase, spoken at just the right moment, can reshape a person’s destiny. A whisper can unravel a lifetime of limitations.
It is in this world that I meet fellow travelers—those who have glimpsed the deeper reality and cannot turn away. Some are warriors, forging their strength in the fires of hardship. Others are poets, weaving meaning into the spaces between words. There are healers, visionaries, wanderers—people who have felt the pull of something greater and followed it, not because it was easy, but because they could do nothing else.
I have walked among the pyramids of Cydonia under a raven-filled sky, commanding the impossible into existence. I have knelt before the ruins of Tintagel, feeling the weight of Arthur's legend pressing against the mist. I have wandered the cobbled streets of Whitechapel, London, in the fog, scant minutes behind the Ripper...
And these are not just stories.
These are echoes of something vast and ancient; something deep within our human nature.
Tolkien knew this. Campbell mapped it. Jung spent his life deciphering it. The greatest stories are not mere fictions—they are blueprints. They guide us, shape us, prepare us for the trials ahead. They whisper of the battles we must fight, the dragons we must face, the love we must be bold enough to claim.
And that is why I walk between worlds.
Because the real world—the one we wake up to every morning—is nothing without the mythic world to give it meaning. The spreadsheets, the emails, the endless trivialities of modern life—these things may keep the wheels turning, but they do not set the soul on fire.
But when you know how to step through the Portal, when you know how to wake up fully—both in this world and the next—then life is no longer ordinary.
You begin to see the unseen.
You sense when the winds are shifting.
You recognize the call to adventure before the others hear it.
And when the moment comes—when the sword is offered, when the path opens, when the choice is before you—you do not hesitate. You take the step.
Most people never see the threshold.
They live only in one world, mistaking the mundane for the whole of reality. They do not hear the music beneath the noise. They do not see the patterns woven through history, through dreams, through whispers in the dark.
But you?
You have felt it, haven’t you? The pull of something greater. The quiet voice in your mind that tells you there is more to this life than what you’ve been told. You’ve caught glimpses—perhaps in a dream, or a book, or a moment of déjà vu so strong it felt like prophecy.
And now you stand at the edge of something vast - the surging sea changes of your own deep mind.
The Portal is open.
It has always been open.
And all you have to do is step through, and hypnosis makes it very real.
- Mike Mandel
(Chris here: Did you know that Mike's entire "Mandel Trilogy" hypnosis bundle is included in the Brain Software Syndicate. The price to join is ridiculously low.)
