Philosophy, art and spiritual practice - read slowly, really lived.
This is a personal blog. And at the same time, it is about a transformation of consciousness: consciousness does not exist singularly, but only in connection with other consciousness - it is communicative.
In 2016, I traveled to India to read Gilles Deleuze there. I read slowly: thoughts are complex entities. Understanding others means questioning your own thinking. An encounter between worlds of thought takes time. It was a metamorphosis of my thinking.
Here, transitions open up along the way: from Deleuze to the Upanishads, from concepts to temples, from theory to practice—and in Auroville to a culture where meditation doesn't need to be explained but is normal.
Three entry points
If you're new here, don't start chronologically. These three texts open up the most important lines of the project.
Reading Deleuze in India
A philosophical metamorphosis
The central entry point into the project: reading Deleuze in India, thinking slowly, and transforming one's own way of thinking.
Immanence
Deleuze and pure consciousness
A fundamental concept as experience: life, consciousness, and immanence beyond a separated subject.
Kena Upanishad
Attention, Listening, Thinking
A text that shifts thinking, hearing, seeing, and attention into each other: What thinks in thinking?
The large reading areas
The categories form the architecture of the blog. They help to read posts not just chronologically, but according to their main themes.
- Philosophy and Consciousness
- Indian Philosophy and Practice
- Art and Perception
- Auroville
- Culture and Society
- Places and Travels
- Photography
- Critique and Farewell
- Technology and AI
Further Pillar Texts
These texts delve into individual lines: practice, Auroville, art, sound, and inner freedom.
Bodhi Zendo
Meditation, Silence, and Practice in South India: What does practice mean when philosophy becomes breath and posture?
One year of Auroville
Auroville as an experimental space: everyday life, transformation, community, and the possibility of organizing life differently.
Art Before Theory
Art not as an illustration of thoughts, but as its own form of cognition: perception before concept.
Music - Nāda-Brahman
Sound as a form of consciousness, listening as a method.
Keywords as reading cues
The keywords are not mere keywords. They connect conceptual terms with experiential terms: Deleuze, immanence, Upanishads, meditation, perception, self, life, soul, and silence.
Deleuze · Immanence · Upanishads · Meditation · Auroville · Perception · Even · Life · Soul · Silence
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