James O'Neill Guide

11/07/2026

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🛸✨ THE CHANNEL PANEL: BEYOND CONTACT — NOVEMBER 13–15, 2026!🌟 Joi...

11/01/2026

One away from 600.

My podcast, Make Your Own World, just reached 599 subscribers on YouTube.

I’ve had the privilege of sitting down with some fascinating people to explore consciousness, personal transformation, spirituality, and what it means to create a life that’s truly your own.

If an episode has meant something to you, or you simply want to support what I’m building, I’d love to have you subscribe.

And if you’re already one of the 599, thank you. I genuinely appreciate you.

Here’s to 600.

Subscribe here:

Make Your Own World is what becomes possible when you stop performing the self you think you should be and meet the one you already are. Exploring psychology, mindfulness, metaphysics, consciousness, creativity, near-death experiences, and the turning points that change a life. I'm James O'Neill, LC...

10/28/2026

Sometimes life brings us to a turning point.

Maybe it's a relationship that's changing, a familiar pattern that keeps repeating, or a sense that something in your life no longer fits.

You don't have to have it all figured out before reaching out.

I'm currently welcoming new therapy clients, particularly men navigating life's challenges, transitions, and questions about what comes next.

My approach is direct, compassionate, and grounded in helping people create meaningful change.

I offer in-person psychotherapy in Columbia, Maryland, walk-and-talk sessions at Recharge, and telehealth throughout Maryland.

If someone comes to mind who might benefit from this work, I'd genuinely appreciate you sharing this post.

A mirror, not a map.

🌿 Learn more or schedule a free 15-minute consultation:
https://jamesoneillguide.com/therapy/for-men

10/25/2026

Have you ever worked really hard to get somewhere, only to arrive and wonder whether it was where you actually wanted to be?

It's a question I've spent a lot of time with, both personally and in my work with others.

And it's one of the questions that led me to write Magnetic Selecting.

A little while ago, I wrote about that experience, and what it taught me about the difference between pursuing a goal and knowing whether that goal is truly yours.

I wanted to share it again because I think it's a question worth returning to.

What do you actually want?

On the choices that shape our lives, the courage to act on them, and why I wrote Magnetic Selecting

10/15/2026

What do you actually want?

It's a question I often ask the people I work with. And over the past year, it's one I've had to ask myself more deeply.

Sometimes we spend so much time working toward our goals that we forget to ask whether those goals still reflect who we are and the lives we genuinely want to live.

That realization became an important part of my own journey and eventually inspired my new book, *Magnetic Selecting: A Practice for Finding What You Truly Want and Living It.*

In my latest essay, I share some of the experiences that shaped this work, what I've learned along the way, and why I believe this question matters so much.

I hope it offers you something useful in your own journey.

Read: “What Do You Actually Want?” here:

On the choices that shape our lives, the courage to act on them, and why I wrote Magnetic Selecting

10/01/2026

Feeling invisible can make you question the work. Or yourself.

I know this well.

Lance Lewman sent out 150 resumes in New York and heard nothing. He started to wonder if maybe he wasn’t good enough.

Then his father told him:
“They don’t even know you’re there.”

That changed the meaning of the silence.

Sometimes the world hasn’t rejected you.

It just hasn’t seen you yet.

So make another move. Create anyway. Keep going. That is what I choose to do.

I loved this conversation with Lance.

Watch here:

09/29/2026

Magnetic Selecting is out today.

It is a book for anyone who has felt stuck, or quietly sure something is missing. It is about finding the want you set down, meeting what holds you back, and moving toward it anyway.

Available now in paperback and Kindle:
https://amazon.com/dp/B0HJN9H63Y

May you be well

Magnetic Selecting: A Practice for Finding What You Truly Want and Living It

08/20/2026

New Essay on Victim consciousness, and how to shift it.

On victim consciousness, and the kindness that interrupts it

07/25/2026

Excited to share this new episode with Actor and Comedian Cory Jacob.

Cory Jacob moved to LA from a Wisconsin town of 3,000 to honor his ...

07/21/2026

A few nights ago, on a break at a channeling event, I pulled a card from an oracle deck someone had set out on a side table. Just for fun, the sign said.

I drew the Angel of Death. And I laughed, because it was dead on.

I'm in the hardest stretch of my adult life, and that card sent me down a road I'd been circling for weeks: what the word alchemy actually means. The real sequence, the one everyone skips. Why the oldest root of the word means "the black land," the dark soil where everything grew. And why the dark stretch you might be in right now is not proof that your desire failed. It may be the wish, working.

This one is for anyone in the middle of it. I don't write these from the summit. I write them from inside.

The oldest meaning of alchemy, and why the dark stretch you're in is just the soil