If The Ascending Path mapped the essential qualities of spiritual growth, from gratitude through wisdom, The Living Path: Between Worlds explores what comes afterwards: how we live these insights in the space between worlds, between the cosmic consciousness glimpsed in deep meditation and the ordinary reality of daily life.

These fifteen poems arose through the same natural process as the first collection; not through deliberate craftsmanship, but as genuine expressions emerging from direct experience. They embody a lifetime of travel, clinical practice, and deep meditation, from the Algerian Sahara to the silence of the Alpujarra Mountains, as well as the continuous effort to harmonise mystical insights with everyday responsibilities.

This collection begins where many spiritual journeys deepen, recognising that the sacred isn't separate from the material world but woven into its very fabric. From fractal patterns in forest floors to the mathematics of transformation, from visionary experiences to the quiet work of living wisdom in everyday moments, these poems explore the realm of advanced spiritual practice.

At 76, Andy Martin offers something increasingly precious: wisdom earned through a lifetime of direct experience.

Childhood in Malawi taught him interconnectedness as lived reality rather than philosophy. The Yao people, among whom he grew up, wove ancestors into daily life; a few steps from the classroom, an entirely different understanding of the sacred was being lived. Decades of exploration followed: contemplative traditions in Southeast Asia, mystical practices in Europe, shamanic journeys in Siberia and Oxfordshire, always as practitioner, never merely as an observer.

Years as a clinical hypnotherapist deepened his understanding of how transformation unfolds: not in straight lines but spirals, not through escape but through engagement, not suddenly but through patient, repeated returns to essential themes.

Thirteen years ago, in the Algerian Sahara, seventeen words crystallised during meditation. They required thirteen more years and seventy-five years of life to mature into complete poems. In 2025, after a retreat in Oxfordshire woods, The Ascending Path: From Gratitude to Wisdom emerged fully formed. A second collection, The Living Path: Between Worlds, followed almost immediately, exploring the territory between cosmic consciousness and ordinary reality.

Now caring for his mother in Devon, Andy lives the wisdom his poems explore: presence in ordinary moments, service without fanfare, the recognition that profound spirituality often wears everyday clothes. A third book, The Earth Remembers, is forthcoming.