World Happiness Press
Field notes from the movement.
Essays, interviews, and policy analysis from the World Happiness Foundation ecosystem — 15% by guest voices from the Conscious Catalysts network.
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Essays
The Ocean Was Teaching Us All Along
Introducing Mindful Diving™ and the Mindful Diving Institute — the world’s first global wellbeing standard for diving, its open Standard, the five-level Descent pathway, and an invitation to the Founding 100 dive centers.
August 5, 2026
Books
The Transpersonal Coach: the book beneath the coaching hour
A new book from World Happiness Press completes the Transpersonal Series and becomes the core text of the TransPersonal Coaching Program — the maps, the craft, the formation and the circle of transpersonal coaching.
August 5, 2026
Essays
The Ocean Is a Meditation Hall: mindful diving and the path to Fundamental Peace
Every diver carries a secret they rarely name. Diving trains the four capacities of Fundamental Peace — breath, buoyancy, silence and care — one immersion at a time.
August 1, 2026
Essays
The Moon Beneath the Water: night diving, rescue and the alchemy of depth
A first-person essay from Bali — a full-moon night dive, rescue training, and the seven practices the ocean teaches about calm, care and transpersonal leadership.
July 29, 2026
Research
The Alchemy Papers: A Complete Architecture for Transpersonal Therapy and Coaching
Four new papers by Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo bring together the Six Wounds, the Emotional Alchemy Mandala, the 64 Shadows, the Twelve Universal Laws, the koshas, the states of consciousness, and ancestral wisdom into one coherent map — from suffering to flourishing.
July 24, 2026
Consciousness & Inner Work
Born from the Spring: Ubud, the two dragons of Bali, and the day the water spoke
A first-person essay from Ubud — Tirta Empul, the beringin, the Balinese triads, and what the island returns to us about origin, healing and the ten billion.
July 20, 2026
GPTM
The Happytalist Alternative — GPTM View 9
From GDP to Gross Global Happiness — the economic and civilizational operating system the GPTM's data makes not only possible, but necessary.
July 20, 2026
GPTM
10 Billion Happy — The Roadmap — GPTM View 10
The 25-year path from Shadow to Fundamental Peace to Flourishing — the delivery architecture, the metrics, and the invitation for every reader.
July 20, 2026
GPTM
The Hidden Pain of the United States — GPTM View 1
How the wealthiest nation on Earth carries some of the deepest invisible wounds — and how a few actors sustain a system of suffering through militarism, dominance and disconnection.
July 20, 2026
GPTM
Africa's Hidden Strength — GPTM View 2
Why the continent with the highest structural suffering scores the lowest existential suffering on Earth — and what Ubuntu, ancestry and communal life teach the wealthiest nations.
July 20, 2026
GPTM
The Somatic Scream — GPTM View 3
The body as battlefield — and how 25+ altered-states-of-consciousness modalities are producing measurable, low-cost, low-side-effect healing across D6.
July 20, 2026
Gallery
A weekly note from the Observatory.
Essays, field reports, invitations. One story a week — from abundance, never urgency.