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
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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
DMT, Vision, and the Grammar of Inner Light
There is a story told by a man named Justin about his DMT experience. What struck me was not the exotic imagery or the psychedelic symbolism. What struck me was how closely his account follows the same inner structure we keep seeing in contemplative practice. Not identical. Not equal. But recognizably patterned. And this invites … Continue reading DMT, Vision, and the Grammar of Inner Light
Theopoetics and the Inner Light: When Theology Learns to Listen Instead of Explain
Knowing God via Mictophenomenology and Theopoetic action For centuries, theology tried to describe God using arguments, definitions, and well-structured systems. God was approached as something the intellect could grasp, categorize, and master through careful reasoning. Yet alongside this analytical stream, another current has always flowed: a quieter way of speaking that does not try to … Continue reading Theopoetics and the Inner Light: When Theology Learns to Listen Instead of Explain
The Dark Night Paradox: When Collapse Becomes a Doorway to Light
Spiritual literature often celebrates light, clarity, unity, and peace. Mystics speak of luminous presence, of being carried, of the heart opening into a sense of vast coherence. Our recent papers explores this terrain, describing how, under contemplative conditions, consciousness becomes transparent to something deeper than the everyday self. But there is another side to this … Continue reading The Dark Night Paradox: When Collapse Becomes a Doorway to Light
‘In Your Consciousness I Live’: Surrender, Light, and the Birth of An Authentic Ethics
Some insights do not arise as theory. They appear as lived truth, sudden and quiet, dissolving the need for explanation. They do not come “from above,” nor are they constructed by the psychological mind. They arrive like a clarity that was always there, waiting until we were still enough to recognize it. Two such insights. … Continue reading ‘In Your Consciousness I Live’: Surrender, Light, and the Birth of An Authentic Ethics
Micro-phenomenology and Meditation: Entering the Fine Textures of Inner Experience. No blabla but experiencing!
In recent years, a quiet methodological shift has begun to influence the study of consciousness. Instead of speaking about meditation only through philosophical reflection, brain imaging, or spiritual interpretation, researchers have started to listen more carefully to experience itself. One of the most refined tools emerging from this development is micro-phenomenology: a disciplined way of … Continue reading Micro-phenomenology and Meditation: Entering the Fine Textures of Inner Experience. No blabla but experiencing!
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