Since the 1970s, I have travelled extensively through Nepal, Bhutan and India, where I met and studied with many spiritual teachers. One subject that has fascinated me throughout those decades is the extraordinary visual world of Tibetan thangkas. I have always been struck by their power, complexity and precision. After many years of study, I … Continue reading The Thangka Book: Sacred Images as Maps of Inner Experience
Meditation
Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
A Real Signal, Wrapped in False Precision: A Second Look at "The Dark Side of Mindfulness" The Atlantic has just published a long, well-reported piece on Willoughby Britton, the Brown University researcher turned Cheetah House founder, who has spent nearly two decades documenting the ways meditation can go wrong ("The Dark Side of Mindfulness," theatlantic.com, … Continue reading Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
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
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
Madame de Salzmann at One Hundred: Attention, Automatism and the Birth of Inner Freedom
Jeanne de Salzmann was born in 1889, met G. I. Gurdjieff in 1919 and remained his closest pupil until his death in 1949. She subsequently guided the international continuation of his work until her own death in 1990, at the age of 101. The recordings discussed here therefore show not merely an elderly teacher recalling … Continue reading Madame de Salzmann at One Hundred: Attention, Automatism and the Birth of Inner Freedom
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
Surat Shabd Yoga and hearing of tinnitus, how does these relate? And how can we awaken spiritual seekers for understanding what is Nonsense and what is Truth?
In the world there is so much misunderstanding of spiritual phenomena. For instance the above question already contains a misunderstanding. Here is a dissection of the problem. Surat Shabd Yoga (also known as the Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound) places great emphasis on attuning to the Anahad Shabd or Audible Life Stream—a divine … Continue reading Surat Shabd Yoga and hearing of tinnitus, how does these relate? And how can we awaken spiritual seekers for understanding what is Nonsense and what is Truth?
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
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
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