Movement, Thresholds and the Phenomenological Topography of Place Over the course of the New Landscape Holistic Project, a different understanding of landscape has gradually begun to take shape. What first presented itself as a study of unusual places has become something more precise: an inquiry into the way landscape is lived through the body, memory, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
From Looking at Landscape to Being in Landscape There is a point in landscape experience at which looking is no longer enough. A place may first present itself through sight, through the slope of the land, the arrangement of stones, the form of a tree, the opening of a path or the quality of light, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
A Phenomenological Approach to Natural Landscape Cognition A landscape is never encountered as a neutral arrangement of forms. The moment we step into a place, perception is already entangled with memory, expectation, bodily state and imagination, so that a forest which feels protective to one visitor can feel oppressive to another, a mountain can evoke … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
A landscape begins to change when we stop experiencing it as scenery. Hereunder is a segment of our landscape at the Quinta Quixote, where the elemental of the tree can be seen with our imaginative eye... The stones, trees, paths, springs and contours of a place are ordinarily arranged by perception into a world of … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
From Magical Will to the Operator
E. W. Dobberkau on Imagination, Suggestion and the Experimental Formation of Experience Among the contributions to the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus that speak most directly to the concerns of The Inner Laboratory is E. W. Dobberkau’s Magische Experimente der Willenskraft als Einleitung in den Okkultismus. The article appeared in 1907 in the … Continue reading From Magical Will to the Operator
When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
Reading the First Volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus, 1907 Screenshot Opening the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus from 1907 means entering an intellectual landscape that has almost entirely disappeared. The journal carried the subtitle Monatsschrift zur Erforschung der gesamten Geheimwissenschaften, a monthly review devoted to the investigation of the entire field of … Continue reading When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
Het Innerlijke Laboratorium: Religiositeit in de 21ste eeuw
Over de herontdekking van een verticale dimensie in het menselijk bestaan Dit essay vormt de kern van het gedachtegoed achter Het Innerlijke Laboratorium: een boek dat eind dit jaar verschijnt. Wie ondertussen alvast wil kennismaken met het onderzoek, vindt op het gelijknamige YouTube-kanaal nu al verdieping en achtergrond: youtube.com/@HetInnerlijkeLaboratorium De inspiratiebron ligt in een lang … Continue reading Het Innerlijke Laboratorium: Religiositeit in de 21ste eeuw
The Architecture of Higher-Knowledge Claims
Sri Aurobindo as a Case Study in Esoteric Textual Criticism Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, MSc, PhD. Professor em. molecular pharmacology at University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, Quinta Quixote international yoga and meditation center, Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Algarve, Portugal; magickjan7@gmail.com Abstract Esoteric texts can create an overwhelming impression of cognitive depth while yielding … Continue reading The Architecture of Higher-Knowledge Claims
A Reader’s Question: What Happened After Watching the Abraxas Ritual – activation of evil?
The question A young man in his late twenties, deeply engaged in his own spiritual practice, wrote in after watching our Abraxas ritual video. In his own words, reconstructed and anonymized here: "I watched the Abraxas video without judgment — it was strange, genuinely strange, but I just let it be. That night I had … Continue reading A Reader’s Question: What Happened After Watching the Abraxas Ritual – activation of evil?
Enactive Psychiatry: Old Wine, New Bottle—or a Better Vessel?
A historical and clinical test of novelty: Can Psychiatry Renovate Itself? Enactive psychiatry presents itself as a solution to psychiatry’s integration problem: how physiological, experiential, social, and existential processes can belong to one coherent account of mental disorder. This essay argues that much of its conceptual material has identifiable predecessors in systems theory, phenomenology, philosophical … Continue reading Enactive Psychiatry: Old Wine, New Bottle—or a Better Vessel?
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