Go Inside. Go Inside. Feel inside. Etc. Noooo! There Is Only Watching What Is Rising! Much of contemporary meditation rests on a subtle but decisive mistake. People are told to go inside, to turn inward, to enter the body, or to descend into deeper layers of experience. This language sounds innocent, but it quietly introduces … Continue reading There Is No Going Inside: stop New Age Misleading Language!
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With Chinese Inner Alchemy we can avoid New Age Fantasies
New age fantasies are penetrating the entire western meditative world. I am sick of it. It leads people totally astray. Anyone who works seriously with inner sensing, inner light, or subtle bodily regulation will eventually encounter the same problem: as soon as experience becomes subtle, people start to inflate it with stories. Lights turn into … Continue reading With Chinese Inner Alchemy we can avoid New Age Fantasies
VedicVibes go India: India, Bharata, there where light is!
In 2026 VedicVibes go on a 5-weeks Inida trip visiting many meditation and yoga masters in Kerala. Why India? Because the ancient word for India is Bharata. And that makes a lot of sence. The Sanskrit word for India, 'Bharata', stems from the root "bhaya ratam iti bharatam." BHA signifies 'light' - knowledge, wisdom, and … Continue reading VedicVibes go India: India, Bharata, there where light is!
From the Body to the Cosmos: aham śarīramaham prāṇamaham pṛthvīmaham viśvamaham brahmāṇḍam
There is a simple sequence of Sanskrit phrases that can function as a complete path of yoga when approached not as philosophy, but as lived experience. Each line names a recognition that unfolds naturally when awareness is allowed to inhabit the body from within. Aham śarīram.I am the body. This is where everything begins. Our … Continue reading From the Body to the Cosmos: aham śarīramaham prāṇamaham pṛthvīmaham viśvamaham brahmāṇḍam
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
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
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