Tom Bast

I’m a novelist, self-mastery author, podcaster, and world traveler. I seek out the company of daring dreamers, and I thank you for being here.

I’ll share my pathfinding with you, in the hopes my search for a higher harmony resonates with your own.

People have always entered into deep conversations with me. Even when I was a kid, total strangers would confide in me. People talk to me as though I have always known them. I love this about my life. It gives a magical music to my reality and I try to dance in it.

When I was younger, the music drove me to risk arrest more than once to protect ancient forests. After my kids were born, it inspired me to volunteer with community organizations that protected the environment and advocated for the arts.

Invitations and opportunities came to me. I travelled all over the world. I sat in sweat lodges with Lakota shamans. I celebrated nature with Wiccan priestesses. I spent a long time in a Zen Sangha. I’ve received empowerments from Tibetan Rinpoche.

All the while, soul-crushing hardship, devastating heartbreak, and catastrophic failure dogged me. I could never figure out why.

Then in 2019 I hit the road. Since then, I have moved from place to place. I’ve swum off the coast of tiny tropical islands and trekked into the heights of the Himalayas. 

On the road I’ve met unique and fantastic people. Living this way ensures that I surround myself with daring dreamers. Their stories, and especially their wisdom, inspire me continuously. My fiction and my podcasts are full of it.

I took a ten-day silent meditation retreat at a monastery in Thailand that revealed the “why” causing my hardships, and that showed me how to go beyond it.

In my podcast, Thinkers & Dreamers, I share all I’ve learned. I add mythology and science to deepen the insights people have given me or to deepen the lessons I learn from their lives. Characters from great novels storm the stage and I show you how they help me improve my pathfinding. I hope this all harmonizes into a refreshing and original inspiration for your daring dreams.

I always want to know your thoughts and your story. If you subscribe to my newsletter, please just reply to get in touch.

Tom