I report a crazy event. I still do not fully understand how this can happen. In the phosphene meditation today in my geometric dome, at 13.00 hours, a striking vision emerged: first, a great morphing eye , a vast presence of perception itself, then, the face of an old man. Alongside the vision came a name, clear as if spoken: Nicolaus Cusanus. The name was repeated 3 times and I kind of woke up and thought I have to remember that name. So back home I studied the name.

Nicolaus Cusanus A Seer of the Inner Light

Nicolaus Cusanus (1401–1464), born in the town of Kues on the Moselle River in what is now Germany, was a cardinal of the Catholic Church, a philosopher, mathematician, and one of the most profound mystics of the Renaissance. Educated in canon law and deeply influenced by Neoplatonic thought, Cusanus was a bridge between scholastic theology and the unfolding mystical-humanist tradition of the time. His major works, including De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance), De Visione Dei (The Vision of God), and De Coniecturis, explored the limits of human reason, the infinity of God, and the paradoxical nature of true knowledge. Although little known today outside academic and mystical circles, his influence shaped early modern ideas about unity, infinity, and the divine presence within the act of perception itself. He was linked in my vision to an divine Eye, and now I find out he wrote a book with the title ‘The Vision of God’. And in that book he describes God as an all-seeing eye…

This crazy event markes a new threshold in our journey on the path of the Yoga of the inner light. For while Cusanus never spoke of “phosphenes” in the modern neurophysiological sense, he may well be described as a seer of the inner light , a mystic whose insight was not only philosophical, but directly visionary.

In his profound work De Visione Dei (The Vision of God), Cusanus describes God as the all-seeing eye, and the human as one who, upon gazing into that eye, becomes both the observed and the observer. This exact moment, when the boundaries collapse and the seer is seen, echoes with uncanny precision the core of the phosphene experience: the unification of witnessing and being.

Collapsing of opposites

Cusanus spoke of the coincidence of opposites (coincidentia oppositorum), a mystical point where dualities such as light and dark, inner and outer, above and below, no longer stand opposed, but become expressions of the same reality. In the Yoga of the Inner Light, this moment is encountered when the kaleidoscopic lights dissolve into one timeless, spaceless center. There is no above or below, only presence. This is not metaphor. It is experience. Interestingly the dark and the light merge into what I referred to as ‘Urlicht’, light beyond light.

Cusanus also introduced the idea of learned ignorance (docta ignorantia), the recognition that ultimate truth lies beyond conceptual knowing. Illumination is not the product of reasoning, but the gift of surrender, of watching, of openness, of inner silence. This too is the heart of the phosphene path. The inner lights cannot be “understood.” They must be entered. The visions do not explain, they reveal.

The synchronicity of the vision, an eye, a face, and the name, with the actual content of Cusanus’s writings, suggests more than coincidence. It suggests a resonance through time. It implies that the tradition of seeing, true seeing, mystical seeing, is alive. It moves. It communicates across centuries, across the supposed wall between the living and the dead. I am actually quite impressed by this finding. It supports our ideas on reading the Akasha Chronicles.

In this chapter, then, we honor Cusanus not only as a historical thinker, but as a fellow seer. He is part of the lineage of those who entered the Light. His writings, especially De Visione Dei, may be seen now not as theological speculation, but as meditative report. And with this vision, our project deepens. We see that the Emerald Tablet, the phosphene experience, and the mystical legacy of figures like Cusanus are not separate. They are expressions of the same unveiling.

The eye sees the eye. The One sees itself. And the light continues to speak. Strangely enough it seems to speak concrete language from the unconscious. Tapping into an unknown source. A nice side-effect of phosphene meditations.

More about Cusanus method to see God

So in his short but luminous work, De Visione Dei, Nicolaus Cusanus offers not an argument, but a meditative path, one that invites the reader into a direct experience of divine seeing. Written as a dialogue for a monastic community, it begins with a simple visual focus: a portrait of Christ, painted in such a way that his eyes seem to follow the observer no matter where they stand. This gaze becomes the gateway to contemplation. If an image can simulate omnipresence, how much more must the divine gaze truly see all, from all directions, at all times?

This leads into a deeper reflection on the nature of perception. Cusanus introduces his famous idea of the coincidence of opposites, in which apparent contradictions collapse into unity. God is not this or that, but the field in which all polarities dissolve. Light and darkness, inside and outside, large and small, are reconciled in the divine presence. This mirrors the state of the Yoga of the Inner Light, where the kaleidoscopic visions dissolve into a radiant center, and there is no longer a sense of direction, boundary, or distinction.

Cusanus then shifts from logic to mysticism. He speaks of learned ignorance, the recognition that ultimate truth cannot be grasped by thought. It must be known in silence, by entering the light directly. This too is the heart of the phosphene path. The lights are not symbols to interpret, but thresholds to cross. The inner vision is not a metaphor, but a real, immediate experience.

As the meditation deepens, the reader is led to the recognition that God’s gaze is not external. It is within. When we realize that we are being seen, something reverses: we become the seer and the seen in one act of awareness. Observer and observed collapse into unity. The one who watches and the one being watched are the same.

Finally, this gaze transforms us. To live in the sight of God is to become transparent. There is no more hiding, no more pretending. One lives in truth, humility, and presence. This is not a philosophical conclusion, but a transformation of being.

Seen through the lens of the Yoga of the Inner Light, De Visione Dei is not a theoretical text. It is a guide into the sacred interior. And the fact that his name arose in vision, unbidden and precise, suggests that Cusanus remains a companion on this path, not only through his writings, but through the living field of shared inner light.

Shunyam Adhibhu