William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch is not a work of mysticism in the conventional sense, yet it confronts the same central task as any authentic spiritual discipline: to strip perception of its conditioning and reveal the structures that enslave consciousness. Beneath its grotesque surfaces and satirical anarchy, Burroughs’s work performs a kind of dark yoga, … Continue reading From Naked Lunch to the Naked Mind: Burroughs and the Yoga of Deconditioning
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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
The 72 Angels and the Sigils: the Angel VehuiaA
The Sigil of the Angel VehuiaH! For those of us who work with phosphenes, the endogenous light of the brain, meditation is not about seeing nothing, but about witnessing the Field of Light stabilize. After decades of practice, we learn that this inner luminosity is not mere visual noise; it is the fundamental signature of … Continue reading The 72 Angels and the Sigils: the Angel VehuiaA
Beyond the Boundary of Academia: Mapping the Dimensions of Trans-Academic Knowledge
Across cultures and centuries, forms of knowing have emerged that do not fit within institutional epistemologies. They are experiential, symbolic, or transformative rather than analytic or instrumental. Wouter J. Hanegraaff famously called this domain rejected knowledge, the “dustbin” of Western intellectual history, populated by the occult, the mystical, and the magical. Yet rejection is only … Continue reading Beyond the Boundary of Academia: Mapping the Dimensions of Trans-Academic Knowledge
Our Brain, Field Dynamics and the Inner Light: new vista’s!
Recent research proposes that consciousness may arise not from neurons firing, but from rhythmic waves resonating together to form stable patterns, like music made of light.In the ancient Yoga of the Inner Light, this same resonance is experienced directly as phosphenes: luminous fields appearing behind closed eyes when awareness turns inward. When we close our … Continue reading Our Brain, Field Dynamics and the Inner Light: new vista’s!
Field Dynamics and Inner Light
The hidden geometry of consciousness revealed through the Yoga of the Inner Light I have always been fascinated by what happens behind closed eyes. That quiet, pulsing luminosity, the faint field of shifting light that appears when the mind grows still. For most people, it is just a background shimmer, dismissed as visual noise. But … Continue reading Field Dynamics and Inner Light
The Inner Pulse of Consciousness: Rediscovering the Yoga of the Inner Body
Every contemplative tradition recognizes powerful inner dimensions we can access through focused practice. We often hear about the Yoga of Inner Light (phosphenes, visual radiance) and the Yoga of Inner Sound (subtle, spontaneous tones). But there is a third, forgotten pathway, the most fundamental and physical of all: The Yoga of the Inner Body. This … Continue reading The Inner Pulse of Consciousness: Rediscovering the Yoga of the Inner Body
Phosphenes & the Ouroboros: How the Brain’s Inner Light Turns Self-Reference into Sacred Vision
Why our inner “visual grammar” and the loop of self-reference make the sense of the sacred both repeatable and deeply personal, and how studying those loops can bridge neuroscience, religion and art. Think of that famous sentence-paradox, “This sentence is not true.” It folds language into itself and produces a tiny electric shock: meaning that … Continue reading Phosphenes & the Ouroboros: How the Brain’s Inner Light Turns Self-Reference into Sacred Vision
Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and the Sufi Map of Inner Light
In the history of mysticism, few figures described the inner lights of contemplation with as much clarity and precision as Najm al-Dīn Kubrā (1145–1221), the great Sufi master from Khwarezm and founder of the Kubrawiyya order. His writings offer one of the earliest and most systematic phenomenologies of phosphenes: the spontaneous lights that appear behind … Continue reading Najm al-Dīn Kubrā and the Sufi Map of Inner Light
The Vision Taxonomy of Dr. Rouhier, in his classic work on mescaline intoxication
The French physician Rouhier, in his classic work on mescaline intoxication, attempted to classify the types of visions experienced under its influence. Importantly, he stressed that these types are not sequential stages (like a ladder of progression) but rather modes of experience that often overlap. In most mescaline states, one type tends to dominate, while … Continue reading The Vision Taxonomy of Dr. Rouhier, in his classic work on mescaline intoxication
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