MIND CONTROL

A Practical Framework for Awakening and Conscious Creation

Phillip Van Winkle · Fire Horse Press · September 22, 2026

You've gathered the pieces. Now see how they fit.

An insight into your childhood. A practice for observing your thoughts. A name for the pattern you keep repeating. Each can matter deeply. The question is how they work together, and why understanding alone doesn't change what keeps happening.

In MIND CONTROL, Phillip Van Winkle presents a complete, practical framework for awakening and conscious creation: where your patterns come from, who you are beneath them, how to catch them in the moment, how to return to choice, and how to create your life on purpose. Six connected elements, each one explaining the others:

• The Identity Triangle—how experience becomes story, story becomes belief, and belief becomes who you are
• The Orbit Model—why Identity keeps pulling thoughts, emotions, and behavior back into familiar patterns, and why willpower alone rarely holds
• The Four Circles—a map of consciousness that explains why you can feel divided against yourself
• The Sacred Pause and the Practice of Return—moment-to-moment doorways out of autopilot, back to an awareness that has never been harmed and never been lost
• Your Parts and the Five Rs—why the patterns you've fought hardest were protecting you, and the step-by-step path that returns them to wholeness under your own leadership
• Conscious Creation—how identity, attention, and intention shape what you live, and how to author your life deliberately instead of repeating it

Practices throughout bring the framework into the places it matters: your inner life, your relationships, and the decisions that create your future.

Built to leave no missing pieces. Written to be used. Yours to test against your own life.

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Editions

• Paperback · ISBN 979-8-9970368-0-5 · $19.97 · 408 pages · 6 × 9 in.
• eBook · ISBN 979-8-9970368-1-2 · $9.97 · Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo
• Hardcover · ISBN 979-8-9970368-2-9 · $29.97
• Audiobook · ISBN 979-8-9970368-3-6 · narrated by Rachelle Van Winkle · coming soon

Contents

Preface: My Story · Orientation

Part One: Awakening
1. The Power You Surrendered
2. The One Who Sees
3. The God Fractal
4. Leading from Divine Awareness

Part Two: The Framework
5. The Identity Triangle
6. Choosing Your Identity
7. The Wound That Points to Wholeness
8. The Five Rs—Returning to Wholeness

Part Three: Conscious Creation
9. Conscious Creation
10. Meeting Others from Love
11. The Life You Choose
12. The Rest Is Yours

Epilogue: The Final Frontier · The Practice Guide · Acknowledgements · Recommended Reading

The framework's vocabulary

Every named idea in the book, defined in its own terms: The MIND CONTROL Glossary →

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