With Chapter 6, Sri Aurobindo starts to explore in greater detail the integral view that he seeks to establish. After having shown the...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a world-famous philosopher, mostly known for his vocal defense of atheism. In fact, this is already an...

The following excerpt is from the unpublished manuscript of a book about early Buddhist thought, entitled The End of the World. The...

Afterthoughts after a retreat. Full explanation here.

I’m moving forward, but I’ve no idea where I’m going. It is as if the pieces of a huge and complex puzzle were suddenly falling into...

After having introduced the limitations of one extreme view on the nature of reality—reductionist materialism—we now approach the other...

The main idea announced in chapter 1 of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine is that "Nature seeks a harmony" (p. 4). This presupposes the...

I started this website with the vague idea of creating some sort of online infrastructure to bind together different pieces of research I...

My last five years have been a laboratory for exploring meditative practice(s). No aspect of the rest of my life has been unaffected by...

Life is becoming. We all enter this game as it is already rolling—and hopefully it will still be rolling when we exit. Nobody actually...

Prelude Over the past five years, my life became a laboratory, a space entirely devoted to understand and dive into the nature of...

There are three main layers in meditation practice. In reality, they are deeply interlinked and interpenetrated, but for the sake of...

1: All experience is consciousness of some content. Whatever is experienced is either consciousness, or something of which one is...

The following sketch of practice is an attempt at going through several of the meditations presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (ca....

Spinoza famously stated that ‘desire is man’s very essence’ (Ethica, III, def. of affects, 1). Ordinarily, desire manifests in two...

Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...

It is fairly common to get into a certain practice by imitation. Something becomes the hype of the moment and one wants to try it out. Or...

The first time I was born out of fear and ignorance. Seeing this folly, following the path of the Silent Sage, I turned around, seeking...

Experience of anything can be spelled out as ‘consciousness of something’. The ‘of something’ part indicates the intentional nature of...

'Contemplative practices' is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to a number of various methods, generally aimed at inducing some...