Phenomenology – NOEMAYA

I Can’t Stand Musicals & More

18 Oct 2022

Sinn, in German is to have meaning, to deploy intelligence forward and outward. Perhaps it’s the same thing: to sin is to sinn, to suppress one’s primordial and divine stupidity for the sake of a loaf of meaning; it’s to beat the innocent stupidity in the head by the hammer of intelligence and wisdom so that life finds some arbitrary and transient meaning. Man can’t tolerate meaninglessness and indeterminate being, that is, sheer stupidity. To bring things into form, into intelligible conceptions and limitations, this man elevates intelligence over and above stupidity and takes the fall and the subsequent suffering. … More I Can’t Stand Musicals & More

Seeing With The Flesh: How our bodies tell us what to see and how to see it

9 Jun 2022

The mind simulates situations and reads threats into them, quite innocently, to make sense of uncomfortable sensations and unpleasant feelings. As a result we end up seeing in our visual field more than what’s there. We may see a monster in our spouse, an enemy in our friends, etc., and we do so by projecting malicious intentions onto others’ behavior when we are bothered by our own sensations. In a sense, the bodily sensations warp our our visual field: we actually see the world not with the eyes but rather with the flesh. … More Seeing With The Flesh: How our bodies tell us what to see and how to see it

Meditations on Esoteric Metaphysics

30 May 2022

Both phenomenology and nondual Vedanta have come to the conclusion that “the universe is made of knowledge.” Physics, too, is coming to a similar conclusion, that “the universe is made of information.” … More Meditations on Esoteric Metaphysics

Spiritual Practice & Reorienting the Soul

24 May 2022

Truth shines in the heart. Spiritual practices make the heart receptive to natural light, as opposed to artificial, i.e. lunar light. This is only a matter of spiritual/intellectual reorientation of the soul. Thus, spiritual practices in fact reorient the Intellect toward its origin. … More Spiritual Practice & Reorienting the Soul

The Witness Consciousness

18 Apr 2022

Nothing is really ever created. The experience of reality and existence is as unreal as a dream bubble that bursts upon waking up. Awaken to the Disinterested Onlooker and the play of existence would instantly disappear into the void. … More The Witness Consciousness

The Direct Path to Spiritual Realization

4 Apr 2022

The direct path toward spiritual realization is easier than advertised. All that one needs to do is to sit and do nothing! It’s the hardest habit to overcome, to do nothing, but it’s the easiest thing to do (or not to do) once we find the zone. Read more… … More The Direct Path to Spiritual Realization

The Garden of Eden: Paradise Buried Alive

31 Mar 2022

I am lost in some strange neighborhood of my mind; there are so many buildings and high-rises in every direction that I have lost my sense of orientation. I don’t know how I ended up here. It is strange like a dream: I have somehow naively accepted the inception and reality of this place but … More The Garden of Eden: Paradise Buried Alive

Consciousness: The Grand Trickster

21 Mar 2022

It’s all happening in the darkness, a chaos of undifferentiated ether. And I, the spotlight, make a scene by the turn of my gaze. And the mind, the prompter, animates the ghosts of this stage, the dormant selves of this world. And on the basis of this one scene, this here and now, a spatiotemporal … More Consciousness: The Grand Trickster

Finding Consciousness

19 Feb 2022

There is no shortage of literature trying to pin down what consciousness is. Every field claims expertise over it: the natural scientist attempts at reducing it to inert matter or physiological processes. The psychologist sees it as a collection of mental states. The philosopher views it as the principle of cognition. The spiritualist sees it … More Finding Consciousness

Coming Across God

5 May 2021

God is deaf; It is blind; It is dull, dark, and dumb. Ears and eyes and wit are windows to what’s outside of oneself. But there’s nothing outside of God, so God, mind you, is deaf; It is blind; It is dull, dark, and dumb. When I came across God, It perceived me not, for … More Coming Across God