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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Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
A Real Signal, Wrapped in False Precision: A Second Look at "The Dark Side of Mindfulness" The Atlantic has just published a long, well-reported piece on Willoughby Britton, the Brown University researcher turned Cheetah House founder, who has spent nearly two decades documenting the ways meditation can go wrong ("The Dark Side of Mindfulness," theatlantic.com, … Continue reading Can Meditation Be Too Much? On a Flawed Thesis!
The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
Our central proposition is magick may become intelligible if we first understand how a trained mind gains access to a structured imaginal field, allows content to arise there, distinguishes reception from deliberate construction, and subsequently learns to operate within that field. A Blueprint for the Architecture of Imaginal Practice For centuries, descriptions of magical practice … Continue reading The First Blueprint how Magick could be created and how it works
TWIM- meditation: Four Stages, One Recognition: Reading the Ariya-Puggala Model From the Lab
The Theravada model of the four stages, stream-enterer, once-returner, non-returner, fully liberated, is one of the few contemplative maps specific enough to actually test something against. Ten fetters, removed in a fixed order, each with a description precise enough that a practitioner could in principle notice whether it is still operating or not. That specificity … Continue reading TWIM- meditation: Four Stages, One Recognition: Reading the Ariya-Puggala Model From the Lab
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 12: Advanced Landscape Meditation: Peripheral Vision, the Witness and the USH
There is a point in landscape practice where simply walking attentively is no longer enough. Once we have become familiar with the basic phenomenology of a place, with its paths, boundaries, changes in atmosphere and the way the body responds to them, we can begin to alter the manner in which we perceive the landscape … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 12: Advanced Landscape Meditation: Peripheral Vision, the Witness and the USH
From Plato to Jung: The Long Search for the Inner Landscape
Anyone using words such as consciousness work, inner transformation, visualisation or breathwork today is entering a territory much older than modern psychology. For more than two thousand years, Western culture has contained a continuous undercurrent of philosophers, mystics, alchemists, physicians and magicians trying to understand how human beings can change themselves. Their language differed enormously. … Continue reading From Plato to Jung: The Long Search for the Inner Landscape
New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
A landscape begins to change when we stop experiencing it as scenery. Hereunder is a segment of our landscape at the Quinta Quixote, where the elemental of the tree can be seen with our imaginative eye... The stones, trees, paths, springs and contours of a place are ordinarily arranged by perception into a world of … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 7: The Soul of the Tree: Breath, Reciprocity and the Living Landscape
The Grammar of the Transpersonal
From observing consciousness contents to awe: a working overview Notes, prepared alongside our book Het Innerlijke Laboratorium/The Inner Laboratory (in preparation) Jan M. Keppel Hesselink https://www.youtube.com/@HetInnerlijkeLaboratorium 1. Starting point: the book's own trajectory The book's method begins from a simple, almost clinical act: learning to observe the contents of consciousness (thoughts, emotions, body signals, imagery) … Continue reading The Grammar of the Transpersonal
Madame de Salzmann at One Hundred: Attention, Automatism and the Birth of Inner Freedom
Jeanne de Salzmann was born in 1889, met G. I. Gurdjieff in 1919 and remained his closest pupil until his death in 1949. She subsequently guided the international continuation of his work until her own death in 1990, at the age of 101. The recordings discussed here therefore show not merely an elderly teacher recalling … Continue reading Madame de Salzmann at One Hundred: Attention, Automatism and the Birth of Inner Freedom
Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
https://youtu.be/kQbESu3XLzU?si=HDHPjk33m_voyN0k Reality Shifting, Barefoot: An Ancient Instruction There is a practice sweeping through the younger generation called reality shifting. You write a script of the world you would rather live in, lie down, repeat your method, and try to wake up elsewhere. Whole online communities are devoted to it, and most adults either mock it … Continue reading Reality Shifting Is Real. You Were Taught the Wrong Direction: an Ancient Magick Protocol
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