Beyond Symbolism: Toward a Phenomenology of the Inner Light

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About Fake and Real Spirituality

In an age saturated with spiritual language, the words have become louder than the silence from which they once emerged. Auras, chakras, energies, frequencies, we hear these terms daily, spoken with certainty, invoked with authority. But beneath the glow of such talk, a deeper question lingers: what is actually being experienced?

Fake Spirituality goes for Chakra’s and Aura’s Real Spirituality is about the Own Perception

This manifesto calls for a return to direct phenomenological perception, to the raw light of inner awareness, unmediated by inherited symbols or borrowed cosmologies. It is a call to recover the forgotten discipline of looking inward with clarity, precision, and humility. At the heart of this return is a practice we call the Yoga of the Inner Light, an experiential path based not on belief or dogma, but on what actually arises behind the eyes.

☀️ The Luminous Origin: Light as Primary Experience

Long before chakras were mapped or auras color-coded, mystics and yogis across cultures described the same unmistakable phenomena: inner light appearing in meditation, behind closed eyes, in dreams, at the edge of sleep, during prayer or near death. These lights, known as phosphenes in scientific language—are not hallucinations. They are primordial forms of perception, the substrate of vision itself.

Phosphenes are the starting point of the visionary path. In their spontaneous flicker, one discovers that light is not just external, but deeply interior, and that consciousness is not dark and empty, but radiant by nature.

🌀 The Collapse of Living Experience into Symbol

And yet, rather than remaining anchored in such direct experience, much of modern spirituality has veered into abstraction. Terms like chakra or third eye have been stripped of their original depth and deployed as floating symbols, disconnected from practice or introspection.

  • The chakra becomes a diagram instead of a felt opening.
  • The aura becomes a field imagined or photographed, rather than an energetic resonance discovered through deep attention.
  • Energy work becomes a marketplace of interventions without cultivation of presence.

This symbolic inflation bypasses the body, the senses, and the living phenomenology of inner transformation. It replaces seeing with believing. And it leaves the practitioner grasping at metaphors instead of entering the light itself.

🧘‍♀️ A Return to Phenomenology

Phenomenology means: to describe what is actually given in experience, without projection, fantasy, or ideology. When we meditate on inner light, we begin with what we see:

  • A shimmer behind the eyes,
  • A golden disc that expands,
  • A luminous tunnel,
  • A form that arises, stabilizes, then dissolves.

These are not metaphors. They are events in consciousness, and they deserve to be studied with the same care we give to external science. In this light, spirituality becomes empirical again, not cold and rational, but warm with presence, grounded in the evolving intimacy with what arises within.

The Yoga of the Inner Light is not a new invention. It is a remembering. It is a lineage of observation, stretching from the cave yogis of Tibet, to the Christian mystics who saw fire within their souls, to those who lie in silence and find themselves flooded with golden radiance.

🌌 The Ultrasubjective Hyperspace

In our own terms, this space of unfolding inner experience has been named the ultrasubjective hyperspace: a field of pure perception, richly textured, uniquely personal, and yet universally accessible. Within this space, light takes on form, not through imagination, but through the deepening stillness of attention.

Here, archetypes may appear, figures like Amitābha, the Buddha of Infinite Light (see previous post) not as beliefs or projections, but as luminous presences arising from the self-organizing intelligence of inner light. These visions are not invented; they are discovered. They are the face of consciousness recognizing itself.

✨ Beyond Belief: A New Spiritual Language

This work asks for a new language. Not one of esoteric symbols layered on top of intuition, but a language of direct witnessing, of what is seen, felt, heard, and known from within. It is a movement:

  • From system to seeing
  • From map to terrain
  • From terminology to transparency

We do not reject the old terms, we transfigure them. We do not throw out the chakra, we return it to its somatic and luminous root. We do not deny the aura, we reclaim it as the vibrational consequence of inner stillness. But we refuse to speak about what we do not directly experience.

📣 A Call to Practitioners

To those walking the path of light: begin with what is real.

Start with what appears when your eyes are closed and your mind is quiet. Let your practice be observation, not ornamentation. Let each shimmer of light be more trustworthy than any diagram or ancient metaphor. Let vision arise from silence, and words follow it, if at all.

This is not a return to the old. It is a new beginning. A way forward that respects both the ancient depth of contemplative wisdom and the clarity of contemporary inquiry.

The inner light has never left you. You need only learn how to see again. Shunyam Adhibhu

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