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
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New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
From Looking at Landscape to Being in Landscape There is a point in landscape experience at which looking is no longer enough. A place may first present itself through sight, through the slope of the land, the arrangement of stones, the form of a tree, the opening of a path or the quality of light, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 9: Being-in-the-Landscape: Body, Place and the Art of Dwelling
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
A Phenomenological Approach to Natural Landscape Cognition A landscape is never encountered as a neutral arrangement of forms. The moment we step into a place, perception is already entangled with memory, expectation, bodily state and imagination, so that a forest which feels protective to one visitor can feel oppressive to another, a mountain can evoke … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 8: Phenomenology and Entering the Landscape: Memory, Imagination and the Participatory Field
From Magical Will to the Operator
E. W. Dobberkau on Imagination, Suggestion and the Experimental Formation of Experience Among the contributions to the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus that speak most directly to the concerns of The Inner Laboratory is E. W. Dobberkau’s Magische Experimente der Willenskraft als Einleitung in den Okkultismus. The article appeared in 1907 in the … Continue reading From Magical Will to the Operator
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
Sound and Light at Museum Zer0: Experiments in the Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound – the Angelic Lights and Sounds
In our beautiful little city Santa Catarina a new masterpiece resides, the museum ZerO. Here we already conducted some experiments. It is free to make takings and pictures in the museum, very insightful of the mind of the organizers. So we can share this remarkable museum ZerO with others. Here our first sound and light … Continue reading Sound and Light at Museum Zer0: Experiments in the Yoga of the Inner Light and Sound – the Angelic Lights and Sounds
When Sound Becomes Light: Synaesthesia, Mescaline, and the Phosphene Connection
Among the many mysteries of human perception, synaesthesia is quite interesting. Crossing of the senses where sound becomes colour, where touch radiates as light, or where vision itself resonates like a musical chord. In early mescaline research, such synaesthetic states were already frequently documented. Investigators noticed that the excitation of one sensory organ would spill … Continue reading When Sound Becomes Light: Synaesthesia, Mescaline, and the Phosphene Connection
Ezekiel Vision was a Phosphene
We will study Ezekiel’s Vision of the Tetramorph in Fourteenth-and Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts and Printed Copies of Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla litteralis around 1410. Here we see many aspects we can understand once we have seen phosphenes ourselves. Analysis of Ezekiel's Vision (Illustration) through the Lens of Phosphenes This illustration, from a medieval illuminated manuscript provides … Continue reading Ezekiel Vision was a Phosphene
Ancient Echoes: Phosphenes in Stone
It was during a recent deep dive into an old, leather-bound, 20-volume series titled Historia Universal de Guilherme Oncken – a magnificent 19th-century universal history – that I stumbled upon a truly thrilling discovery. On page 15 of Volume 2, illustrating the "Sepulchre of Midas," I found not a burial mound as I might have … Continue reading Ancient Echoes: Phosphenes in Stone
Bruder Klaus -Niklaus von Flüe-: one of his Visions: the Tabernacle and its phosphene aspects, as well its Jungian significance
One of the most important mystics of our own environment were those of the Swiss Bruder Klaus, Niklaus von Flüe. We describe some of his visions, this time the tabernacle, a clear example of a phosphene vision - you can find it in the publication referred here. This Tabernacle you can see yourself happening during … Continue reading Bruder Klaus -Niklaus von Flüe-: one of his Visions: the Tabernacle and its phosphene aspects, as well its Jungian significance
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