The Clearing Meditation
ANATTA, ANICCA, ABHAYA ANATTA means “no-self”. When you say the word, bring the meaning to mind. Do not treat it as a negation or attack on your ego. Take it to refer to the conscious part of you that is…
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Meditation
The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and strengthening their cores. Lao Tzu Why Meditate? Gary Weber has described in detail how the “default mode network” in the brain can be deactivated through meditation. He calls it the…
Psychotechnologies
“Psychotechnology” is John Vervaeke’s fancy cognitive science word for spiritual practice. Psychotechnologies are intentional, sustained mental techniques designed to disrupt ordinary patterns of thought in order to make way for new ones. Strictly speaking, they are a form of mind…
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ANATTA, ANICCA, ABHAYA ANATTA means “no-self”. When you say the word, bring the meaning to mind. Do not treat it as a negation or attack on your ego. Take it to refer to the conscious part of you that…
Scientific and Spiritual Methods
Psychedelic Christian Zen has three “moments”: gnosis, pistis and kenosis, which form the three stages of a psychedelic cycle of knowledge: Kenosis (Purification) /oooooooooo\ Pistisoooo<-ooooGnosis (Dalliance)oooooooo(Perception) Kenosis is the temporary suspension or bracketing of all interpretative theories and models, gnosis…
The ABC of Psychedelic Integration
What’s the point of having a deep psychedelic experience if you can’t integrate it into your everyday life? But then again, as Marc Bolan sang, “life’s a gas”. At the end of the day, it’s all experience, isn’t it? Art…
Ego Death
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 The death and rebirth motif in comparative mythology is arguably at the heart…
the way of the holy mushroom 