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
Magic
Magic are those willed actions we create in our UltraSubjective Hyperspace where we meet the divine and become adepts in the unsane – the realm between insanity and sanity where creation happens
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?
The Persistent Promise of Higher Knowledge
Occult Training, Human Development, and the Problem of Definition In the preface to his Geschichte der Magie of 1844, the physician and magnetic practitioner Joseph Ennemoser formulates what may be read as the central premise of his entire work: “Die wahre Magie liegt in den geheimsten innersten Kräften unseres Geistes.” True magic, he argues, lies … Continue reading The Persistent Promise of Higher Knowledge
Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
Where analytical psychology meets a modern esoteric psychology Carl Gustav Jung’s Aion is one of his most difficult and ambitious works. Its subject is not merely the unconscious, nor even the familiar Jungian themes of shadow, anima, animus, and projection. Its deeper concern is the Self: the elusive psychic totality that includes the conscious personality … Continue reading Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
https://youtu.be/kQbESu3XLzU?si=HDHPjk33m_voyN0k Reality Shifting, Barefoot: An Ancient Instruction There is a practice sweeping through the younger generation called reality shifting. You write a script of the world you would rather live in, lie down, repeat your method, and try to wake up elsewhere. Whole online communities are devoted to it, and most adults either mock it … Continue reading Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
Sonic Mandalas
Breath, Vowels, Abraxas, and the Gestural Phonology of Altered States Some esoteric formulas are not meant to be translated. They are meant to be voiced. This is the point modern readers often miss. We approach ancient magical words as if they were damaged sentences. We ask which language they belong to, whether they are Greek, … Continue reading Sonic Mandalas
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 5: A Practical Guide to Entering the Stone – Six Phases of Deepening Attention at a Charged Landscape Site
Preliminary Note This guide is written for the stone oval at Monte Pocilgais, but its principles apply to any site where a charged landscape presence has been recognised and prepared through repeated attentive visits. It is not a ritual in the theatrical sense. It is a protocol of attention, a sequence of practices that progressively … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology, part 5: A Practical Guide to Entering the Stone – Six Phases of Deepening Attention at a Charged Landscape Site
When Magick Lacks Yoga
On 'Un prince de Belzébuth' and the image that colonises inner space The book 'Un prince de Belzébuth. La mort d’un sorcier' by Jean Lorédan (1853 -1937), with a preface by the famous student of magick and the occult Louis Pauwels, and the accompanying image of Hell attributed to the Italian painter Andrea Orcagna, do not … Continue reading When Magick Lacks Yoga
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
Instant Illumination is possible: Phosphenes form the Canvas on which the Divine paints and Awe is the Key to understanding and the ultimate self-knowledge!
After 50 years of meditation and many wholesome experiences via the Yoga of the Inner Light the following insight is worth while sharing with you. The universal visual and affective core of all mystical and religious experiences (the "numinous" and archetypes) is not metaphysical nor symbolic, but is an intrinsic function of the human neurobiology … Continue reading Instant Illumination is possible: Phosphenes form the Canvas on which the Divine paints and Awe is the Key to understanding and the ultimate self-knowledge!