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The Book Dojo
Aiki Publishing

Pocketbooks for the path, written to be carried, read, and returned to.

The Book Dojo is the public home of Aiki Publishing, the imprint behind these books and the place where the written work is brought into the world. A dojo is somewhere you return to in order to practice, and these pocketbooks are made the same way: something to return to again and again, each reading offering a new perspective on what you thought you already understood. Here you'll find The Unified Soul and the growing Wisdom of The Unified Soul series.

The Master Work
The Unified Soul — Walking The Earth In Awareness
The Unified Soul

The foundation everything else is built upon, a contemplative inquiry into what we are, who we are, and why we are here. It maps the whole of the work, and every pocketbook in the Wisdom of The Unified Soul series grows from a single thread within it.

Written not from above, but walking beside you.

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The Wisdom Series

A growing collection of short books, each roughly 150 pages, each turning its full attention to a single idea. Read one in an afternoon; sit with it far longer. Three are in the world now, with more underway.

Awareness — Wisdom of The Unified Soul
Awareness
Wisdom of The Unified Soul
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Identity — Wisdom of The Unified Soul
Identity
Wisdom of The Unified Soul
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The Hidden Mind — Wisdom of The Unified Soul
The Hidden Mind
Wisdom of The Unified Soul
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The Wisdom of The Unified Soul series grows directly out of the master work. The Unified Soul maps the whole of it: what we are, who we are, why we are here. Each pocketbook takes a single thread from it and follows that thread all the way down. Where the master work surveys the territory, these small books walk one path through it at a time, so you can take up whichever question is alive for you right now.

On the Horizon

Roughly thirty volumes are planned in all. New titles join the series as they're written.

From the Author

These aren't books I set out to write so much as questions I couldn't stop asking. What am I? Who am I? Why am I here? They're the same questions you've carried your whole life, quietly, beneath everything else. Somewhere along the way I decided to stop turning away from them and actually sit with them.

What you'll find here comes out of that sitting: years of introspection and honest attention, of meeting my own experience as it is and writing down what became clear. I'm not writing from above. I'm walking beside you, a fellow traveler a little further down the same road. The Unified Soul and the Wisdom of The Unified Soul series are my notes from the journey, offered in case they help you on yours.

We are all, in the end, on the journey of the soul. May these be good company on yours.

D.R. Baldwin, Author
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The Four Questions

A free guide to the things you've quietly carried your whole life: what am I, who am I, why am I here, and what can I actually know? No dogma, no sales pitch. Just honest, plain answers and a quiet place to sit with them.

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