New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Ever since I first heard about shadow work decades ago, I've wondered exactly what it is. I always thought of deep abysses in the soul, traumas, taboos, secrets that you haven't shared with anyone because it's too shameful to talk about. I thought shadows are what we hide from ourselves and from others. And there's probably something to that idea. Now I've realized that shadows first appear somewhere else...
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The spider brings forth its own web. This image from the Upanishads invites deep meditation on how nature brings forth a thread that it weaves into a complex symmetry. Looking at the spider, the thread, and the web—its function and the source of the complex pattern—we have an image that invites deep speculation about mantra, tantra, and yantra, about art and knowledge, about creation and information. The 5th lecture explores art and scientific visualizations of sacred symmetry in a field…
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Game – Misstep In the West, I used to think that playing games had to do with "games" in the sense of playing video games and that video games had rules. Playing a game means entering a space that is limited by rules, and within these parameters, the player can develop strategies to act according to the rules with the goal of winning. There is the broader theory of games, which has been applied to sociology and other fields, and there are computer simulations that test hypotheses based on...
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I cut short my nighttime meditation a little earlier to switch to writing meditation. Suddenly, some things became clear to me. The necessity of aligning one's own body in meditation, finding the right position, which for me means following the movements, the tensing and relaxing of musculature, the skeleton, the spine. Then observing the breath, inhaling and exhaling, the turning point of the breath, pausing to observe oneself, how thoughts begin to loosen, following them attentively...
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My morning meditation is becoming a bit routine, though one can hardly say that after only a handful of times. It's more of a stretch, a path, or an exploration. Like hiking in the mountains: with the summit in sight, hiking through the paths, along the ridges, through the valleys and rivers, past the rock faces, through scree and rocks, meadows and forests, and beyond the tree line on the glaciers in the snow, the mountains become a metaphor for the inner search. The...
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Many have the idea that we live in a world made of matter, following the laws of physics and various theories such as the theory of evolution. This is strange, because matter as such doesn't really exist, E=mc² stands for this. I don't really understand this formula, but it symbolically represents that in the end everything is energy, possibly even just vibration as the string theory claims. Then there is the physics of the macrocosm and the microcosm. They contradict each other...
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When I read a book, watch a movie, get lost in a painting, or participate in a performance, what exactly is happening? It’s as if I’m experiencing something, and images, feelings, and experiences are being awakened within me. Imagine a movie, a book, a play, or a painting that deals with human relationships, action, history, or fairy tales. So you sit somewhere and look at something that tells a kind of story. Now, what is the difference between…
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In front of my door is a soft, red sandy floor. It's swept several times a week with a bundle of palm leaves, and it looks beautiful. I'm still thinking about the same temple in Irumbai. Its history is becoming increasingly complex, and so I'm now diving into Tantric philosophy. I attended a workshop on this a few months ago. We learned a small meditation exercise that I tried again today: Choose two objects and look at them alternately, saying the name of the object...
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