Movement, Thresholds and the Phenomenological Topography of Place Over the course of the New Landscape Holistic Project, a different understanding of landscape has gradually begun to take shape. What first presented itself as a study of unusual places has become something more precise: an inquiry into the way landscape is lived through the body, memory, … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project, Part 10: Reading the Landscape with the Body
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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
From Magical Will to the Operator
E. W. Dobberkau on Imagination, Suggestion and the Experimental Formation of Experience Among the contributions to the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus that speak most directly to the concerns of The Inner Laboratory is E. W. Dobberkau’s Magische Experimente der Willenskraft als Einleitung in den Okkultismus. The article appeared in 1907 in the … Continue reading From Magical Will to the Operator
When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
Reading the First Volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus, 1907 Screenshot Opening the first volume of the Zentralblatt für Okkultismus from 1907 means entering an intellectual landscape that has almost entirely disappeared. The journal carried the subtitle Monatsschrift zur Erforschung der gesamten Geheimwissenschaften, a monthly review devoted to the investigation of the entire field of … Continue reading When the Occult Still Meant a Research Program
The Architecture of Higher-Knowledge Claims
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
The Persistent Promise of Higher Knowledge
Occult Training, Human Development, and the Problem of Definition In the preface to his Geschichte der Magie of 1844, the physician and magnetic practitioner Joseph Ennemoser formulates what may be read as the central premise of his entire work: “Die wahre Magie liegt in den geheimsten innersten Kräften unseres Geistes.” True magic, he argues, lies … Continue reading The Persistent Promise of Higher Knowledge
Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
Where analytical psychology meets a modern esoteric psychology Carl Gustav Jung’s Aion is one of his most difficult and ambitious works. Its subject is not merely the unconscious, nor even the familiar Jungian themes of shadow, anima, animus, and projection. Its deeper concern is the Self: the elusive psychic totality that includes the conscious personality … Continue reading Jung, the Self, and the Inner Laboratory
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
Can ancient magic still mean something in the twenty-first century?
In this experimental conversation, we explore whether old magical traditions contain a practical structure that can still be relevant today, once we strip away the archaic language, supernatural claims and historical cosmologies. https://youtu.be/Pwkavv_dYac?si=rRDj1OT_uSATQD5g This is a pilot dialogue for The Inner Laboratory, a project that approaches esoteric traditions as methods of inner investigation. Rather than … Continue reading Can ancient magic still mean something in the twenty-first century?
The Process of Sigilization an Undine Water Sigil of Sachiel, the formule and the evocation
Sigilization as a Process A sigil does not always begin as a finished symbol. More often, it emerges gradually through concentration, research, experimentation and repeated drawing. The final sign is only the visible result of a longer movement in which intention, imagination and gesture are brought together. There are several established ways of creating a … Continue reading The Process of Sigilization an Undine Water Sigil of Sachiel, the formule and the evocation
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