Towards the end of 2018 I was asked by Erik-Jan to help him finish a book that he’d started several years previously with an American ghostwriter.

I knew about the book – The 7 Life Elixirs – because I was one of the people he asked to read through the first manuscript. I recognised that there was a lot of really excellent content in it, but that it wasn’t always presented in a coherent way. On top of that, a lot of the descriptions were – to put it mildly – esoteric. There was definitely a great book in there, but a lot of work was required.

I knew about the book – The 7 Life Elixirs – because I was one of the people he’d asked to read through the first manuscript. I recognised that there was really excellent content in it, but that it wasn’t always presented in a coherent way. On top of that, many descriptions were – to put it mildly – esoteric. There was definitely a great book in there, but a lot of work was required.

We kicked off the process in earnest in February 2019. I needed somewhere away from all the normal distractions so I could fully focus on the book. Erik-Jan suggested Portugal; who was I to refuse?

I got a major chunk of the work done there on Algarve, but over the subsequent years there were a lot of revisions and new insights. We also visited Curaçao twice in 2021 so I could film him talking about the elixirs in a way that could be used for an online course.

During 2022 we spent a lot of time in the recording studio, putting together audio practices that accompany the book/online course.

And in March 2023 the book was finally published. It’s fair to say that, apart from Erik-Jan, I probably know more about the content than anyone else in the world. And in a very unbiased way, I suggest you read it. I don’t believe there’s anyone who couldn’t benefit from one of the teaching/suggestions/concepts/practices.