The inner space where experience, imagination and magick are made The room we never left Close your eyes for a moment. Do not try to meditate. Just look. There is a space in front of you. It has no walls. A memory appears in it, then a worry, then a face, then a judgement about … Continue reading Ultrasubjective Hyperspace: a new concept of the reality of our field of consciousness
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Esoteric Breath Cycle Pranayama: to experience the subtle body energies
https://youtu.be/2aIQ4X3d6U4?si=zoc3B8ZUmIfb8C30 Breathing into Silence: An Evening of Breath Retention, Heat and Inner Light Tonight we sat in a circle with candles, and I guided a breath meditation that belongs to the large family of practices yoga calls prāṇāyāma. The word is often translated as "breath control". I prefer to read it as the art and … Continue reading Esoteric Breath Cycle Pranayama: to experience the subtle body energies
What Actually Happens When Someone Practices Magick?
From the study of texts to the study of real-time experienced Magick For a long time, scholars interested in magic, esotericism and occult traditions concentrated mainly on texts. This was understandable, because manuscripts, books, ritual instructions and doctrinal systems are what history leaves behind most reliably. They allow us to reconstruct how ideas moved through … Continue reading What Actually Happens When Someone Practices Magick?
Meditation from the Path of the Yoga of the Inner Light
Meditation on a Flame: The Light and the After-Light A practice from the yoga path of the inner light There is an old and simple doorway into meditation: a candle, a quiet room and your own eyes. In this practice we work with two kinds of light. The first is the flame in front of … Continue reading Meditation from the Path of the Yoga of the Inner Light
The Thangka Book: Sacred Images as Maps of Inner Experience
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
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
