Experience Daily Ecstasy: The Short Path to Oneness
A Life of Flow, Bliss, and Transcendence Awaits You
You meditate. You read the books. You try to stay grounded. But somehow, you still feel like you’re falling behind emotionally—stuck in mental loops, worn out by a world in chaos, disconnected from genuine spiritual wisdom. What if the missing piece isn’t more effort… but a different kind of brain state?
Imagine your life being 100% different. Imagine waking up every day with a deep sense of peace, joy, and purpose. You’re in “flow”—fully present, immersed in the beauty of life, whether watching a sunset, listening to music, or simply being in the moment.
This isn’t a fleeting feeling. This is your new normal. You’re living in a state of Bliss Brain, where stress fades, and happiness becomes your default mode.
What if you could make this your daily reality?
Introducing The Short Path to Oneness, a 9-month journey that combines ancient spiritual wisdom with cutting-edge neuroscience to help you access and sustain transcendent states of consciousness.
While others seem to wander without direction, you’ll discover your true spiritual compass and purpose. No more going through the motions or feeling spiritually tone-deaf – imagine a life in flow becoming your new normal.
A Life of Ecstatic Flow Is Possible
We’ve all experienced brief moments of flow — the serenity of the ocean waves, a deep conversation with a friend, the awe of a starry night, a delicious relaxed hug, the music of your favorite song, the smell of a fragrant rose, the rapture of inspiring art, losing yourself in dance, the joy of sharing with loved ones. During these moments, our minds’ quiet, and we feel deeply content. That’s flow.
But what if these transcendent states of consciousness weren’t rare and fleeting? What if you could feel this way every single day — regardless of what’s going on around you?
For mystics, flow is their natural state. They live in Bliss Brain — a place of calm, joy, and oneness with the universe. In their teachings, they describe these states with words like ecstasy, rapture, enlightenment and awakening.
But how can ordinary people get there? In a world where survival mode has become the norm, how can we awaken, and gain the ability to meet every moment with clarity, creativity, and calm?
The 3 Barriers to Bliss (and How We’ve Solved Them)
For centuries, access to these elevated states has been limited by three major problems:
1. The Curation Problem
For thousands of years, spiritual teachings were hidden away in monasteries and temples, available only to the chosen few who endured rigorous initiations. It took 10,000+ hours of intense practice to attain these states of enlightenment.
2. The Measurement Problem
These states of consciousness were considered subjective and intangible. How do you measure a mystical experience?
3. The Replication Problem Even for those who achieved enlightenment, passing on this experience to others was nearly impossible. Even the disciples of Buddha and Jesus couldn’t replicate their transcendent states of being.
Science Has Now Solved All 3 Problems
Thanks to breakthroughs in neuroscience, we now understand how to teach anyone to access and sustain Bliss Brain—the same flowing transcendent brain state as the mystics.
High-resolution MRIs and EEGs have allowed scientists to map the brains of enlightened people and discover the “formula” for awakened consciousness. With the right training, you can learn to experience the same elevated emotional states of flow — every single day. You don’t have to be a mystic to live in Bliss Brain.
In the past century, science has tackled all 3 problems. A series of remarkable scientific breakthroughs has allowed scientists to understand these extraordinary mental states.
In 1929 Hans Berger, a German doctor, invented the EEG or electroencephalogram. For the first time, researchers could look inside a person’s skull and see how the brain was functioning.
Berger’s contemporary, Dr. Paul Brunton, spent decades traveling the world. He studied with all the great Masters in whose lineages all the world’s spiritual traditions were recorded. He systematically recorded the wisdom of Hindu sages, Christian mystics, Buddhist monks, Catholic nuns, Native American shamans, Egyptian priests, and Taoist masters.
Brunton identified the keys to mystical experience common to all religions. He broke them down into 36 "milestones" along the journey. He synthesized the practices used by many of the Masters into 30 "exercises" that advance you from milestone to milestone. For the first time in history, we had a structure based on the steps common to all the great traditions.
In the 1950s British engineer Max Cade developed a special EEG to measure the brain states of the Masters. He identified a brainwave pattern common to people in these altered states of consciousness. For the first time, enlightenment could be measured.
Researchers extending Cade's work realized that people in flow states had an identical pattern to those of the Masters. Peak performers, whether in art, science, or athletics, also exhibited the brainwaves of flow. But while these states were temporary in peak performers, Masters had crossed an invisible boundary, and were in Bliss Brain most of the time.
Today, high-resolution MRI machines can map the brains of Masters down to a single neuron. Laboratories study monks and nuns with thousands of hours of spiritual practice, providing a neural map of their brain function.
Brain regions associated with happiness are highly developed, while those involved in stress and suffering are dark. The Masters can go into Bliss Brain whenever they choose. For the temporary periods when they're in flow, peak performers get there too. By mapping Bliss Brain, science has solved the measurement problem.
Measuring these brainwave patterns has also solved the curation and initiation problem. With the correct training, people can be taught to acquire Bliss Brain without going through 10,000 hours of initiation. They skip the monastery, pilgrimage, vows, and penances. Science directs them straight to the flow states of the Masters, and using the 30 exercises and 36 milestones, they learn to stay there.
This has in turn solved the replication problem. Guided by science, thousands of people have now been trained to acquire these enlightened states. A research-based training program is now available that allows anyone to experience Bliss Brain, then rewire their brains to make it their default setting. It's called The Short Path to Oneness. It provides you with the training to develop the deep and lasting inner peace characteristic of flow, and stay there consistently.
Welcome to The Short Path to Oneness
Do you find yourself trapped in recurring patterns of past pain, longing for a way to break free and move forward? Do you have an inner knowing that life holds deeper meaning, yet struggle to connect with authentic spiritual wisdom?
The Short Path to Oneness is the ultimate blend of ancient spiritual practices and modern neuroscience. It’s a 9-month, research-based program that rewires your brain for permanent states of joy, peace, and flow.
What once took years of practice can now be achieved in just a few months. Using 30 targeted exercises that take you through 36 milestones of spiritual development, you’ll learn to live in Bliss Brain daily — not just visit it occasionally.
While others may drift aimlessly, you’ll uncover your true spiritual direction and purpose. Say goodbye to simply going through the motions or feeling out of tune with your spiritual self — imagine living in harmony and flow as your new normal.
Dawson Church has been involved in over 100 scientific studies, including groundbreaking research into gene expression, cortisol, stress, and self-transcendent states. He is the author several award-winning science bestsellers, including Bliss Brain and Spiritual Intelligence. A lifetime meditator, his work combines the best of neuroscience and ancient spiritual practices.
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This Program Has Utterly Transformed the Lives of
Participants!
The Power of Neurochemicals: Unlocking Your Bliss Brain
Are you tired of feeling lost in a fog of confusion while everyone else seems to have clarity? When you begin The Short Path to Oneness, you’ll learn special meditations that activate seven specific neurochemicals — serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, anandamide, and more — producing overwhelming feelings of joy and pleasure in your brain’s reward centers.
If you’ve felt that every spiritual path you’ve explored has led to another dead end, this program offers something different. In the program’s second phase, we’ll use EFT Tapping to clear childhood trauma that’s been hardwired into your brain. By releasing these hidden blocks, you’ll free yourself from old patterns of suffering.
This is more than healing. This is transformation. It takes place at the fundamental level of the hormones in your body and the neurons in your brain.
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What You Get in the Short Path to Oneness Program
- The Alpha Retreat
A unique and transformative 2 day virtual experience with Dawson and Mentors. Exercises that change your brain wave patterns, ancient spiritual practices, profound sensory experiences, advanced meditation techniques, and connection with mentors and “soul friends” — all combine to accelerate awakening. - Tapping Meditation Calls
Come together with fellow travelers on the Short Path each month for live guided experiences. The intensely loving and supportive group energy generated in these calls can quickly release the blocks to rapid spiritual progress. - Personalized 1-1 Mentorship
Five expert sessions with a Mentor, plus follow-up “Office Hours” email support, guide you through the program, nurturing your spiritual development and offering you wisdom and support. - 36 Spiritual Milestones
A systematic curriculum that takes you through the milestones of consciousness that mystics experience. - 30 Targeted Exercises
Practical tools from the world great spiritual traditions that elevate your consciousness and move you from milestone to milestone. - 21-Day Meditation Program
A unique series of meditations specially designed to release the neurochemicals of ecstasy while unlocking your brain’s natural flow states. - The Personal Peace Procedure Trauma Release Course
Trauma is a barrier to awakening, and often triggers a “dark night of the soul” experience. So at the start, we guide you through a systematic release of trauma originating in family, money, love, health and career. - 7 Consciousness-Altering Techniques
Without drugs or placebos, there are evidence-based techniques that alter your consciousness. Each of these is powerful when used individually, but when “stacked” in Dawson’s trademarked protocol, they can take you quickly to transcendent stages. - Integration Exercises
Once you’ve had mountaintop experiences, how do you calibrate back to ordinary life? These exercises bring you safely back to ordinary consciousness, so you’re grounded and competent in everyday life. - Awakeners Calls
Monthly virtual meetings with others in the Short Path program to create personal connections and study the keys to awakening and flow.
The Short Path to Oneness above includes dynamic group experience and personalized 1-1 mentoring. You get access to all the tools from ancient wisdom and modern science that catalyze awakening.
If you prefer the support of an expert mentor and a group of “soul friends” to accelerate your progress, as well as 1-on-1 time with Dawson, you have the option of choosing the Awakening Mastery mentoring program below.
What You Also Get in the Awakening Mastery Mentoring Program
Awakening Mastery includes everything in the Short Path program, as well as a personalized 9 month guided journey through the process. It includes:
- Immersive Experiences of Super-consciousness With Dawson
Sitting with Dawson in regular virtual meditation experiences designed to immerse your awareness in Samadhi or super-consciousness. A “lived experience” that moves you progressively, month by month, through 7 distinctive advanced spiritual states. - Spiritual Intelligence Inventory Consultations With Dawson
Developed over 25 years of research into psychological and transcendent states, the Spiritual Intelligence Inventory provides deep insight into exactly where you struggle, as well as your areas of mastery. Two in-depth consultations with Dawson give you a road map to the quickest route to awakening. - One-on-One Healing Sessions
In individual personal sessions, you’ll work with a certified Clinical EFT practitioner to heal trauma and remove the blocks to higher levels of consciousness. - Anamchara Master Mind Webinars
Anamchara is the Celtic word for “soul friend.” You’ll go deep with transformative tapping meditation group sessions with Mirjam, with fellow travelers to support your journey. - Advanced 1-1 Mentorship
Three additional expert sessions with a Mentor, plus follow-ups, personalize your awakening journey and accelerate your spiritual development. - The Integration Intensive
Near the end of your 9-month journey, you’ll celebrate your growth, integrate the “new you,” and prepare for the transformational steps ahead in a 2-day virtual retreat with Dawson.
Guided directly by Dawson Church and Mirjam Paninski, in the Awakening Mastery program you’ll receive tailored 1-1 and group mentoring designed to accelerate your spiritual evolution.
The aim: to support your unfolding into superconsciousness— what the ancient sages call Sat, Chit, Ananda—being, consciousness, and bliss—an luminous reality untouched by external circumstances.
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Your Personal Path to Oneness
The Short Path to Oneness is not just a course; it’s a journey from feeling disconnected to discovering to your highest self. Through the program, you’ll move — from fleeting moments of flow — to a life filled with deep, sustained happiness and peace.
While others rely on sacred texts yet feel disconnected from truth, you’ll develop a direct connection with your higher power. This isn’t about coping with life – it’s about truly living it.
No more chasing temporary highs. This is about creating a permanent shift in how you experience the world.
Join the Short Path to Oneness and Rewire Your Brain for Lasting Bliss
The Short Path isn’t just for spiritual seekers. It’s for anyone ready to live in a constant state of joy, peace, and flow. You’ll receive science-backed tools to turn on Bliss Brain and experience life like the great spiritual masters.
Ready to live in daily ecstasy?
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Participants Describe Radical Life Transformation!
Jillian Gallery
Before this course I didn’t have the conviction that it was possible for me. As I’ve done the course I’ve had the experience, able to connect with universal consciousness. I indeed feel unquestioningly connected now.
We all can do this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Karen Aiken
I had slipped into a very deep depression, so deep I couldn’t get out. I started the Short Path and after just the first two months, I had a glimpse of what Awakening is. I can’t overstate how happy I have become since then.
It has made me so energized and so elevated. I now have a life to live out, instead of the old deep sadness. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, from the depths of my heart.
What You Get Instantly When You Join
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Alpha Virtual Retreat (Value $1800) |
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5 Personal 1-1 Mentoring Calls & Follow-up (Value $1475) |
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Monthly Tapping Meditation Calls (Value $900) |
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36 Spiritual Milestones Curriculum (Value $3600) |
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30 Awakening Exercises (Value $900) |
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21 Day Program of Ecstatic Meditations (Value $600) |
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Personal Peace Procedure Trauma Release Course (Value $500) |
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7 Consciousness-altering Techniques (Value $700) |
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Integration Exercises (Value $400) |
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7 Immersive Super-consciousness Group Sessions With Dawson (Value $1400) |
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2 Spiritual Intelligence Inventory Consultations With Dawson (Value $1800) |
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3 One-on-One Healing Sessions (Value $600) |
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Monthly Anamchara Master Mind Webinars (Value $1800) |
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3 Advanced 1-1 Mentoring Calls & Follow-up (Value $925) |
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Integration Intensive (Value $1800) |
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Awakeners Calls (Value $900) |
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12 Months |
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Course Access (Value $500) |
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36 Months |
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Alpha Virtual Retreat (Value $1800) |
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5 Personal 1-1 Mentoring Calls & Follow-up (Value $1475) |
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Monthly Tapping Meditation Calls (Value $900) |
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36 Spiritual Milestones Curriculum (Value $3600) |
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30 Awakening Exercises (Value $900) |
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21 Day Program of Ecstatic Meditations (Value $600) |
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Personal Peace Procedure Trauma Release Course (Value $500) |
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7 Consciousness-altering Techniques (Value $700) |
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Integration Exercises (Value $400) |
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7 Immersive Super-consciousness Group Sessions With Dawson (Value $1400) |
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2 Spiritual Intelligence Inventory Consultations With Dawson (Value $1800) |
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3 One-on-One Healing Sessions (Value $600) |
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Monthly Anamchara Master Mind Webinars (Value $1800) |
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3 Advanced 1-1 Mentoring Calls & Follow-up (Value $925) |
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Integration Intensive (Value $1800) |
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Awakeners Calls (Value $900) |
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12 Months |
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Course Access (Value $500) |
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36 Months |
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You’ve waited long enough to feel different. The time of lonely struggle is over. A world in crisis needs people who are lit from within—and you’re one of them. This isn’t about escaping life. It’s about becoming fully alive. Say yes to the next stage of your consciousness—and the next evolution of your brain.
Talk to a Mentor who can help you understand if this path is right for you.
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Bonus: Chapters 1 & 2 of the Short Path to Oneness
The perennial philosophy that underlies all the world’s great spiritual traditions is explained at the start of the Short Path course. In Chapters 1 and 2, the exciting new breakthroughs in neuroscience that have made these methods accessible to modern Seekers are also explained. Read the first two chapters free here.
If you’re still reading, you may have some further questions. Here are a handful of the most frequently asked questions:
Studies show that over 73% of people who practice the methods developed for this course jump to a significantly higher level of self-transcendence. MRI scans show that within a month, these methods reduce activity in brain regions associated with suffering and increase activity in regions associated with compassion, gratitude, and happiness. Science shows that over 71% of practitioners remain in a self-transcendent state long-term, so most but not all participants experience these results.
Enrollment for the course opens once or twice a year. If you’ve joined the wait list, you will receive an email notifying you when enrollment opens. We’ll also share the costs and time frames for the various versions of the Short Path course with you at that time.
The course requires 20-30 minutes each morning for about 9 months. It is self-paced so it is possible to complete it sooner. However, experience has shown that people rarely want to rush through because the experiences they have in the course are so rewarding that they savor them.
Yes. It is best to practice in the morning to set your day up with a positive mood. Most participants find the exercises so pleasurable that they build this period into their mornings even after the course ends.
Mentoring greatly accelerates your progress on any spiritual quest, and the Short Path is no exception. In 1-1 sessions, your mentor helps you clear blocks to progress, as well as providing a space to share your deepest experiences. You also get access to a mentoring group to harnesses the power of collective intention. Other sessions include personal 1-1 trauma clearing with a certified Clinical EFT practitioner, group tapping, and many other forms of guidance. People experiencing altered states of consciousness benefit from having a mentor guide them through these.
You will meet your mentor multiple times over the course of 9 months in personal and small group sessions. You also benefit from group mentoring calls with your cohort, and interact with Short Path mentors at the live meditation retreats.
We schedule these retreats at times when the greatest number of people from each cohort are able to attend live. We announce these dates near the start of each cohort. Registration is required for the retreats, so we can stay in touch with you. You can attend these virtually so they do not require the cost and inconvenience of travel. You will also receive a recording a few days after the retreat.
Yes. You will receive a link to the recording a few days after the event.
Participants go through the course as a cohort and your presence makes an important contribution to the group. From the beginning, your mentor and instructors make a commitment to facilitating your growth and the same degree of commitment is required from you. We ask for your commitment for the entire duration of the course and refunds are not provided after you register.
Certainly. We invite you to have a conversation with a mentor prior to enrolling. Click here to message a mentor.
We assign you a mentor at the start of the course. During many of the experiences, such as the retreats and live calls, you benefit from the insights of several mentors.
We have kept the cost of course as low as possible given the intense personal mentoring you receive, as well as the years of research and development the course required. Consequently, no further discounts or scholarships are available. We’ve also provided low-cost options that include fewer mentoring sessions.
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