Waarom je bij een dwanggedachte beter naar je voeten kunt gaan dan naar je hoofd Een aantekening bij het hoofdstuk over haptisch verankerde mindfulness, Psychiatrie tussen de klippen door (boek in ontwikkeling) Een groep patiënten zit in een kring. Ogen dicht, rug tegen de leuning, voeten plat op de grond. https://youtu.be/Fq1dSRfn4xM?si=ieoFwDuWJ5TAd_1N We vragen eerst hen … Continue reading Body-Mind Mindfulness 2.0 voor mensen met dwang
The Day an Ancient God Became Visible
There is a particular kind of vertigo that comes from watching a manuscript become a book. One day it is a file on a screen, a private conversation between yourself and the god you have spent two years reconstructing. The next day it has a cover, a price, a ranking, and a place on a … Continue reading The Day an Ancient God Became Visible
Landscape Magick
A Practical Guide to Place, Perception and the Imaginal World Landscape Magick explores how a place can become more than scenery. It can become a field of attention, relationship, symbolism and encounter. This book develops a practical method for working with landscape through observation, movement, imagination, ritual and first-person inquiry. It brings together psychogeography, phenomenology, … Continue reading Landscape Magick
The Thangka Book: Sacred Images as Maps of Inner Experience
Since the 1970s, I have travelled extensively through Nepal, Bhutan and India, where I met and studied with many spiritual teachers. One subject that has fascinated me throughout those decades is the extraordinary visual world of Tibetan thangkas. I have always been struck by their power, complexity and precision. After many years of study, I … Continue reading The Thangka Book: Sacred Images as Maps of Inner Experience
Een Unieke Meditatie voor OCD: Gibberish!
https://youtu.be/oPa27betfH4?si=bxAbNRsVSdR3TW0l Vandaag doen we in het Innerlijke Laboratorium een oefening die er op het eerste gezicht wat vreemd uitziet. Je sluit de ogen, opent de mond en begint te spreken zonder iets te zeggen. Er worden geen bestaande woorden gebruikt, er ontstaan geen zinnen die ergens naartoe leiden en er wordt geen verhaal verteld. Je … Continue reading Een Unieke Meditatie voor OCD: Gibberish!
Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
A Real Signal, Wrapped in False Precision: A Second Look at "The Dark Side of Mindfulness" The Atlantic has just published a long, well-reported piece on Willoughby Britton, the Brown University researcher turned Cheetah House founder, who has spent nearly two decades documenting the ways meditation can go wrong ("The Dark Side of Mindfulness," theatlantic.com, … Continue reading Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
Beyond Forest Bathing: What Happens When the Landscape Begins to Answer Back?
Forest bathing and ecopsychology have done something important. They have helped restore our capacity to slow down, step out of the relentless cognitive machinery of modern life and become present in nature again. That sounds simple, but it is not. Much of the time we move through landscapes without really perceiving them. A forest becomes … Continue reading Beyond Forest Bathing: What Happens When the Landscape Begins to Answer Back?
The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
Our central proposition is magick may become intelligible if we first understand how a trained mind gains access to a structured imaginal field, allows content to arise there, distinguishes reception from deliberate construction, and subsequently learns to operate within that field. A Blueprint for the Architecture of Imaginal Practice For centuries, descriptions of magical practice … Continue reading The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
Imagination as Interface: Western Esotericism and the Ultrasubjective Hyperspace
When the French scholar Antoine Faivre (1934–2021), one of the founders of the academic study of Western esotericism, tried to identify what was characteristic of esoteric thought, he did not define it by a particular doctrine, secret teaching or occult practice. Instead, he described a recurring form of thought. His model became highly influential in … Continue reading Imagination as Interface: Western Esotericism and the Ultrasubjective Hyperspace
TWIM- meditation: Four Stages, One Recognition: Reading the Ariya-Puggala Model From the Lab
The Theravada model of the four stages, stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner, fully liberated, is one of the few contemplative maps specific enough to actually test something against. Ten fetters, removed in a fixed order, each with a description precise enough that a practitioner could in principle notice whether it is still operating or not. That specificity … Continue reading TWIM- meditation: Four Stages, One Recognition: Reading the Ariya-Puggala Model From the Lab
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