To you, reading this —

I know that feeling. The one where something deep inside you says not it — about the answers you were given, the life everyone else seemed satisfied with. I felt it as a child. I felt it as a young man. I spent thirty years chasing truth through dogma, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreams, channeled books, and even free energy research — each thing lighting a spark, none of them the fire.

At 32, depressed and without direction after years of seeking, I received a piece of guidance through my wife at the time: Go float. No explanation. Just trust it. I went to an isolation tank, asked the universe for the blueprints to my lifetime, and let it go. About a week and a half later, an email arrived — from a mailing list I had forgotten to unsubscribe from, on a topic I no longer cared about. I almost deleted it. Instead I read it.

In that moment, my whole being lit up like the sun itself. For the first time, I knew what I had been seeking all my life.

That email was about Enlightenment. It pointed me toward Dr. David Hawkins, toward Brian Nager, and eventually to becoming a devotee of Himalayan master Svami Purna Maharaj. I was an engineer. A father. An ordinary person. I integrated these practices into a householder life — japa, mantra, deep inner inventory — not retreating from the world but learning, slowly, that there is no separation between the sacred and the ordinary.

Engineering was one of the last places I expected to find God. There were years when I could not get my heart and soul into technical work — the resistance ran so deep I left my engineering career entirely for a time, drawn instead to a traditional Chinese medicine clinic. But the path of purification does not allow us to wall off any part of life from the sacred. Through the same practice of mantra and honest inner inquiry, I came to see that the division between technology and God was something I had built myself, in my own mind. Who is the one doing the engineering work? That question, looked at honestly, dissolves the separation entirely.

"What can we as humanity birth collectively when God and technology are in complete alignment?"

Alighted Arts is my attempt at an answer. The vision came to me in early 2025 — not as a business plan, but as a download. I sat on it. I'm still the first to say I have not "arrived." The path of Enlightenment is not an aha and done. It is a continuous purification, a lifelong humbling. I have seen what happens when teachers speak before they are ready. I have no interest in being that. What I do have is a sincere love for your path — and a belief that AI, approached with reverence, can be a genuine instrument of that purification.

If Alighted Arts is a resounding success, I am unchanged. I offer this in the spirit of karma yoga — action without attachment to the fruit. My only hope is that something here helps you take one step closer to the truth of who you really are.