De ultieme realiteit van Meditatie. Yoga wordt vaak begrepen als iets wat je doet met het lichaam. Houdingen, reeksen, ademtechnieken. Maar onder die uiterlijke vormen ligt een veel eenvoudiger principe, dat in mijn ervaring zowel de kern van yoga als van heling raakt: training in aanwezigheid. Niet aanwezigheid als mentale focus, maar aanwezigheid als bewoning. … Continue reading Het Geheim van het Hoogste Inzicht
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Singing as a Way to Activate the Inner Light: Innovation in Meditation
How Sound Can Open the Field of Phosphenes! Most people associate phosphenes, the inner lights seen with closed eyes, with silence, darkness, or visual practices. Far less explored is the role of the voice. Yet sound, when used in a very specific way, can act as a direct catalyst for the emergence and stabilization of … Continue reading Singing as a Way to Activate the Inner Light: Innovation in Meditation
Āloka-Saññā and the Ancient Lineage of Inner Light Perception: phosphenes and the Buddha
Among the earliest and clearest descriptions of internally generated luminosity in the contemplative traditions is the Pāli term āloka-saññā, which translates as the perception of light, or more literally, the recognition and knowing of light. This term appears repeatedly in the early Buddhist canon, not merely as a poetic metaphor but as a reproducible perceptual … Continue reading Āloka-Saññā and the Ancient Lineage of Inner Light Perception: phosphenes and the Buddha
Entering the Inner Light and the Divine Dialogue Beyond Thought
When you close your eyes and allow the world to fall away, something ancient begins to reveal itself.At first, it appears simple: faint sparks, drifting shapes, subtle waves of luminosity. These are phosphenes as you know, the spontaneous forms of inner light generated by the meeting point of mind, perception, and the nervous system. Yet … Continue reading Entering the Inner Light and the Divine Dialogue Beyond Thought
Inside, Outside, and the Subtle Pulse of Being: What Yoga and Phenomenology Teach Us About the Inner Body
The Pulse of Being: Spandana and the Phenomenology of the Inner Body We grow up believing that the body has an inside and an outside, that the skin divides our private self from the world around us. This is the enduring legacy of dualism: the world here, the self there, the body as a container … Continue reading Inside, Outside, and the Subtle Pulse of Being: What Yoga and Phenomenology Teach Us About the Inner Body
Why Acupuncturist need to renew themselves and not tell the old old stories
Acupuncture Beyond Metaphor: The Body Does Not Need a Story to Be Real it needs Body Phenomenology based on the Meditative Mind For more than two thousand years, acupuncture has been wrapped in symbols, metaphors, and cosmological allegories. Qi flowing like rivers, meridians mapped like sacred cartography, wind-damp invading the channels: all poetic, all beautiful, … Continue reading Why Acupuncturist need to renew themselves and not tell the old old stories
The Spider of the Inner Light
A Jungian and Phosphenic Reading of Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy Cinema sometimes becomes more than a story, it turns into a mirror of the mind itself. Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy (2013) is such a film: mysterious, slow, and haunting. Beneath its thriller surface lies a meditation on consciousness, identity, and the strange geometry of fear. The film … Continue reading The Spider of the Inner Light
The Descent of Lucea
It began in a kitchen, the kitchen of my childhood home, the place where the first sensations of warmth and light once entered the world. Yet in the dream it was completely dark. I tried to strike a match to make fire, but each match failed to ignite. The air was thick with waiting, as … Continue reading The Descent of Lucea
From Naked Lunch to the Naked Mind: Burroughs and the Yoga of Deconditioning
William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch is not a work of mysticism in the conventional sense, yet it confronts the same central task as any authentic spiritual discipline: to strip perception of its conditioning and reveal the structures that enslave consciousness. Beneath its grotesque surfaces and satirical anarchy, Burroughs’s work performs a kind of dark yoga, … Continue reading From Naked Lunch to the Naked Mind: Burroughs and the Yoga of Deconditioning
Important Ideas from Varela, one of the theoretical fundaments for installing the concept of the ultrasubjective hyperspace
This is an ongoing collection of important quotations on Varela, in order to further develop the yoga of the inner light, chaos magick and the human-divine interface. The new sciences of mind need to enlarge their horizon to encompass both lived human experience and the possibilities for transformation inherent in human experience. Those human traditions … Continue reading Important Ideas from Varela, one of the theoretical fundaments for installing the concept of the ultrasubjective hyperspace
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