Sri Aurobindo as a Case Study in Esoteric Textual Criticism Jan M. Keppel Hesselink, MD, MSc, PhD. Professor em. molecular pharmacology at University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, Quinta Quixote international yoga and meditation center, Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Algarve, Portugal; magickjan7@gmail.com Abstract Esoteric texts can create an overwhelming impression of cognitive depth while yielding … Continue reading The Architecture of Higher-Knowledge Claims
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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
What Shape is Inner Space? Is it Hyperbolic?
Close your eyes in a dark room and wait. At first, nothing. Then, almost imperceptibly, something begins to move. A shimmer at the edge of vision. A pulse of light that seems to come from nowhere and everywhere at once. Geometric patterns that appear, rotate, fold into themselves and dissolve. You are not imagining these. … Continue reading What Shape is Inner Space? Is it Hyperbolic?
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
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
Agape as the Radiance of Coherence: A Neurophenomenological Perspective
In the traditional Christian lexicon, Agape is often defined as unconditional, self-giving love. It is the love that "seeketh not its own." However, in the light of the ongoing dialogue in modern theology, specifically the work of Ilia Delio, and our research into the physiology of the "Phenomenal Event," we can now offer a more … Continue reading Agape as the Radiance of Coherence: A Neurophenomenological Perspective
Beyond Reductionism: When Neuroscience Meets the Theology of the Event: God Experienced
For decades, the dialogue between science and religion has been trapped in a stalemate: one side claiming God as a metaphysical entity beyond reach, the other reducing spiritual experience to mere "brain fizzes" or chemical glitches. Following a dialogue with a prominent theologian, we refine our definition: God is not a biological 'product' of the … Continue reading Beyond Reductionism: When Neuroscience Meets the Theology of the Event: God Experienced
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
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