102 Companions
On Your Journey To The One And Only Truth
$1,000 — for the book of one hundred and two companions, a forty-minute live session with me, and a short orientation video to walk you in beforehand.
Where you are now
It is (or, at least, it feels) late, and you are reading — a book, a passage, one more account of the thing you have been circling for years now (I don't need to explicitly name it, you know exactly what I'm talking about). You reach the end of a line and you wait, for a few moments, to feel it land somewhere in your chest. And it does not…
So you set it down. Not in frustration — you are long past frustration. You set it down the way you have already set down so many of them.
Because you have been through this loop countless times, haven't you? The teachers (and / or "teachers") have accumulated; the frameworks have stacked. And the One and Only Truth — what is underneath all of it, what you actually yearn for — has not been handed to you by any of them. Not necessarily because they failed you. But simply because it cannot be handed over.
102 Companions is not another attempt to hand the One and Only Truth down to you. It is rather a trail — one hundred and two markers along an inquiry that can never be closed, by nature. And, for a while (at least), this book is a rare and unusual (but, perhaps for this reason, likely drastic) way to walk and explore a stretch of this, unpredictable and constantly awe-generating, path next to someone who is also still on it.
What 102 Companions actually is:
Three things, for one price.
The book. One hundred and two companions. Each one is a quote, a reflection on it, and at the end, a recommendation of a strongly relevant (as far as I'm concerned) book worth reading next. This is neither a textbook nor a curriculum to finish. I invite you to read it at your very own, unrepeated, individual pace, in the same, joyfully irregular way you walk a trail: one companion at a time, sometimes two, sometimes stopping for weeks on a single one — who knows better than you? Moreover, 102 Companions is built to be re-read. You will read Companion 12 today and feel almost nothing — and read it again a year from now and feel your breath change, because by then something will have moved in you.
Here's a — small, yet indicative — handful of these companions:
- The purpose of Life is to be lived.
- The Way to Truth and Liberation is uniquely different for every single human being.
- The master key is to relate.
- There is One and Only Truth, but there are infinite Realities.
One thing to know going in: the book assumes you have read the Manifesto first. The Manifesto is the gate; the book is the trail past it. Read it before the book.
Now, I need to clarify something: I wrote the book in 2023. I am speaking to you now, some years on, in a voice that has since changed, as I have walked further along this very path — this being said, I have not gone back to rewrite any of its essential parts. You see, a trail (especially this one) does not — and cannot — get corrected behind you. I'm saying this only to highlight that you're likely to detect, on one hand, my 2023 voice in 102 Companions as it stands, and, on the other one, my current voice in the live session. And the distance that you may notice between the two is not an oversight. It is an essential part of what you are here to see, experience, BE.
Speaking about it:
The live session. Forty minutes, one to one — you and me — on Zoom. This is not a lecture. It's not a question-and-answer session on the book. It's not a call where I solve your problem. It is, rather, forty minutes at the threshold (the only place where you can ever be) with someone who walks slightly ahead of you, but (and it is very important to stress this) has not arrived; nor will he ever arrive. What happens in these forty minutes, happens. And while I cannot promise you a particular outcome, I can promise you that you will feel my full presence for the entire duration of our session.
And, of course, there's one more thing for you:
The orientation video. A short recording I invite you to watch before our live session. It's about twenty minutes long and I wouldn't like to say too much about it other than stating my firm belief that what you will see and hear in this video is the best way for you to discern whether what I do, say and am truly resonates with who you currently are.
Who is on the other side
As already said, I am the one who is also walking — slightly ahead, on the same trail, and nowhere near its end.
I'm definitely neither the "guru" nor the "teacher" who has "arrived" or "awakened".
You've probably seen this too many times by now, but let me spell it out: The arrived-"teacher" or "guru" pose is the most sophisticated mask in this domain, worn mostly by frauds — and I'm diametrically opposed (allergic, really) to even entertaining adopting such a persona.
What I am instead is the trail itself. Several books mark it so far, running across an inquiry that began back in the 1990s and has not yet finished with me — nor will it ever. The most recent stretch of it runs through a body that nearly failed: I had multiple strokes in 2024. They took my singing voice (which was one of the things I used to enjoy so much...) and left the speaking one slower than it was. What they did not take — what they could not reach — was walking along this very inquiry.
Now, it took me a long time to see that the answer I was always, desperately looking for does not exist. When I did see that, the question itself dissolved (the adversity I still, daily face was catalytic in this respect). What is left I can only point at: an emptiness full of life, a presence underneath everything, including me, including you. If that was my "awakening," I could never prove it to you — so I will not try to (not to mention that, as I already implied, I'm not anymore particularly fond of this, heavily abused, word).
Bottom line:
I'm as lost as you are. That is exactly why I can walk with you along this very path. The "found" ones cannot do that — they've left us for good.
What becomes possible
Not an answer. Not a breakthrough. Not the arrival you may still, somewhat, openly or secretly, be hoping for.
Something quieter. The companions are not instructions; they are doorways you walk past time and again until, one day, they reveal a different landscape to you; one that is closer to your heart than you'd ever think.
You read, you set the book down, you live — and the reading keeps working in you after the cover is closed. A line you barely noticed surfaces in the middle of an argument, a commute, a sleepless hour, and lands differently than it ever could have while you were on the page.
And let me repeat: the chance for the live, forty-minute session with me that you'll get will not answer your questions. What this session can (and, likely, will) do is let you feel, directly, what it is for you to stand at the threshold beside someone who is not pretending to be on the other side of it.
In short:
What becomes possible here is not a destination for you to reach. It is, rather, a different (and more natural) way of standing where you already stand.
Who this is for
There is no application here, and no filter — anyone can buy the book. But it is not for everyone, and I would rather you know if this is a true fit for who you are right now before you decide.
So...
This is for you if you have built something the world reads as success, and you have noticed — quietly, without quite having words for it — that what you built is not what you are here for — or is a mere shadow thereof.
It is for you if something has broken in your life — a loss, an illness, a collapse of any kind — and this major disruption has left you unable to trust anyone whose surface is too smooth to see through (and that probably includes the overwhelming majority of people in your vicinity, doesn't it?).
It is for you if you have been through numerous spiritual (or existential or philosophical) reads and / or sat with prominent spiritual teachers (or "teachers") and have always come away and out of them with the unshakeable sense that they were too "perfect" to reach you, and with the unmistakable feeling of a thirst yet to be quenched (if not even stronger).
It is not for you if you are looking for a framework, a curriculum to finish, a guarantee that the question that has tormented you for so long will finally close. I neither have, nor pretend to have, any of those — and neither does this book.
What it costs
$1,000 — for the book, the forty-minute live session, and the orientation video.
I hold fifteen live sessions a month. That is not a scarcity tactic; it is the honest number of times I can sit down for forty minutes and be entirely there. When a month fills, you can book a slot in the next one.
On the available refund: You keep the book. If, after reading it and watching the orientation video, you decide you do not want the live session — tell me before you book it, and I will refund you in full.
My honest answers to a few valid questions
How is this different from the One and Only Truth Manifesto?
The Manifesto is the gateway through which the whole thing begins. The book assumes you have walked through it. 102 Companions is the trail past the gate: one hundred and two markers, plus the live forty minutes with me. So, if you have not read the Manifesto, read it first — the book begins exactly where it leaves off.
When do I get the live session?
After you buy, you receive a booking link and choose one of that month's fifteen slots. If the month is full, you take the first available slot in the following months.
What is in the orientation video?
As I already said, I'd rather not say too much about it upfront. It is about 20 minutes long and it will help you decide for sure if this is truly for you, at this particular point in your life, or it is not, in which case you can choose to walk away from it all before our live session, with a full refund.
Can I get a refund?
You keep the book regardless. As I already stressed, if you read it, watch the orientation recording, and decide not to proceed any further (and, therefore, skip the live session), tell me so and I will refund you in full. After we have met, there is (there can be) no refund.
Why $1,000 for a book?
You are not paying $1,000 just for a book (which you anyway get to keep, no matter whether you eventually affirm this is for you or it's not). You are also paying for the accompanying video and, more than anything else, for forty minutes of my full presence with you, one to one, at the threshold — which I can offer to no more than fifteen people a month.
How to get it
If you have read this far and something in you has already decided you want the 102 Companions experience (book, video, session), scroll down.
If you have read this far and you are not yet sure if this is for you, I invite you to read the Manifesto first (or one more time). Sit with it for as long as you need. Then you'll make up your mind. The only certain thing is that the 102 Companions will still be here. So will I.
Walk with me.