1. When Living Traditions Lose Their Vitality Every authentic spiritual tradition begins as a direct response to a human problem: confusion, suffering, inner fragmentation, and the inability to see reality clearly. Over time, however, traditions tend to drift away from this original urgency. Practices become formalized, teachings become symbolic, and insight is replaced by interpretation. … Continue reading The Essence of Yoga and the Flaws of Kundalini
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Kabir: The Renegade Master Who Refused to Play the Religious Game
Kabir is one of those figures who stubbornly refuses to fit. Every tradition that later tried to claim him ended up being quietly dismantled by him instead. Hindus call him a bhakta, Muslims a Sufi, yogis a sant, philosophers a mystic. Kabir himself would likely have laughed at all of them. Labels were precisely what … Continue reading Kabir: The Renegade Master Who Refused to Play the Religious Game
The Essence of Somatic Yoga
The core of the 'new American invention' somatic yoga lies in interoception, the lived experience of the body from within. Something essential of all yoga, but redefined again due to so much confusion in the field of yoga. Yoga practice is grounded in first-person sensation rather than external form, visual imitation, or predefined outcomes. Movements … Continue reading The Essence of Somatic Yoga
Structural Yoga and Somatic Yoga
Two Epistemologies of the Body 1. Yoga as a Way of Knowing Yoga has never been merely a system of exercises. At its core, it is a discipline of perception. Every genuine yoga tradition implies a particular answer to a fundamental question: how do we know the body? Is the body something that must be … Continue reading Structural Yoga and Somatic Yoga
Kabir’s instructions for finding and consolidate the Inner Light
Kabir and the Yoga of the Inner Light A Reading of the Chauntīsī part of Kabir's Bijak What Chauntīsī means? The word comes from Hindi: chauntīs = thirty-four. Chauntīsī = a composition consisting of thirty-four verses In Kabir’s corpus, texts are often grouped by metrical or numerical form, not by doctrinal topic. Examples include: Sakhi … Continue reading Kabir’s instructions for finding and consolidate the Inner Light
Surat Shabd Yoga: A Historical Overview and Meditation Practice
Surat Shabd Yoga, often translated as the "Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound" or the "Union of the Soul with the Divine Sound Current," is a contemplative meditation tradition emphasizing direct inner experience of divine light and sound as the path to spiritual liberation. Historical Origins and Development The roots of Surat Shabd Yoga … Continue reading Surat Shabd Yoga: A Historical Overview and Meditation Practice
Our work on the Yoga of the Inner Light
Who is behind the Youtube channel VedicVibes, this website and the series of papers on the Yoga of the Inner LIght. Just to give some context. Prof. Dr. Jan M. Keppel Hesselink is a Dutch physician, biologist, and professor of molecular pharmacology (associated with the University of Witten/Herdecke). He bridges conventional medicine (especially neuropathic pain … Continue reading Our work on the Yoga of the Inner Light
When the Gurdjieff Enneagram Refuses to Stay Flat: Tradition, Vision, and a Living Symbol
For most of us, the Enneagram appears as it does on countless book covers and workshop flyers: a circle, nine points, intersecting lines. It is usually framed as a psychological map, a way to classify personality, motivations, and defensive styles. Useful perhaps. Marketable certainly. But also strangely diminished. Recently, I read a scholarly paper that … Continue reading When the Gurdjieff Enneagram Refuses to Stay Flat: Tradition, Vision, and a Living Symbol
The Enneagram as Dynamic Vortex: revelatons after a Sufi Shake
The "Work" of Gurdjieff often operates on a long time-horizon; I danced the "Movements" of Gurdjieff long ago and perhaps this has planted a rhythmic seed in my motor memory. Some days a good friend of mine let me know that only if you understand the enneagram completely, a higher being can be born. Apparently … Continue reading The Enneagram as Dynamic Vortex: revelatons after a Sufi Shake
Beyond the “Trip”: Mapping the Universal Architecture of the Sacred
For decades, the "psychedelic experience" has been treated by mainstream science as a form of beautiful, chaotic intoxication: a chemical "hallucination" that, while fascinating, lacked a predictable map. However, as our recent research suggests, what we often call a "trip" is actually a highly structured, lawful progression of consciousness. It is, in effect, a naturalistic … Continue reading Beyond the “Trip”: Mapping the Universal Architecture of the Sacred
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