esoteric studies
studying the spiritual
We rarely hear our inner music. But we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
We horen onze innerlijke muziek zelden. Maar we dansen er allen op, desondanks.
— Rumi
Al vroeg raakte ik geïnteresseerd in spiritualiteit. Jung opende de deur naar de archetypen van de ziel, Krishnamurti maakte het innerlijk conflict duidelijk, Steiner leerde mij over de evolutie van het bewustzijn.
Beelden kunnen iets van die onzichtbare werkelijkheid overbrengen. Esoteric studies zijn visuele meditaties — een poging om het ongrijpbare grijpbaar te maken. Niet als bewijs, maar als uitnodiging om zelf te kijken.
From early on I was drawn to spirituality. Jung opened the door to the archetypes of the soul, Krishnamurti clarified the inner conflict, Steiner taught me about the evolution of consciousness.
Images can convey something of that invisible reality. Esoteric studies are visual meditations — an attempt to make the intangible tangible. Not as proof, but as an invitation to look for yourself.
the thirteen flowers | study
TREE OF LIFE
being
action | reaction
joy
devotion | power
love
strength | mercy
peace
understanding | wisdom
conscious
love versus fear | study
love | fear
positive | negative
relaxed | tensed
active | passive
conscious | unconscious
expanded | contracted
joy | pain
dancing feeling | stress fixations
Hermetic principles | study
Mentalism | all is mind
Correspondance | as above, so below
Vibration | nothing rests, everything moves
Polarity | everything is dual, everything has poles
Gender | masculine & feminine is in everything
Rhythm | all things rise & fall, rhythm compensates
Cause & Effect | nothing escapes the law of karma
Human Being | series
the brain duality | study
right brain | left brain
parallel processor |serial processor
alpha brainwaves | beta brainwaves
cyclical time | lineair time
feeling | thinking
now moment | past/future
imagination | logic
music & art | science
experience | remembering
creative | analytical
connected | divided
holistic | fragmented
flow | resistance
connected | disconnected
soul consciousness | study
awareness soul | emotional awareness
the five senses, digestive organs, sacral & root chakras
intelectual soul | logical thinking
brain, spine, stomach chakra
sensing soul | feeling sensations
nervous system, heart chakra
conscious soul | spiritual consciousness
heart, eyes, throat chakra, third eye chakra
states of consciousness | study
unconscious | conscious
night | day
sleep | awareness
dream | thinking & feeling
sleepwalk | act
Breath of Life | series
cyclical time | study
new moon | birth | morning
spring | grow body awareness
first quarter | 21 years young | summer solstice | noon
summer | develop soul hapiness
full moon | forties midlife | evening
fall | integrate spiritual empathy
last quarter | 63 years old | winter solstice | midnight
winter | experience conscious silence
breath of life | meditation
be silent
breathin
hope | blossom
surrender
breath out
fruit | let go
be silent
Tree of Life | series
THE SEVENFOLD PEACE
from the Essene book of Jesus
And seeing the multitudes, Jesus went up into a mountain and his disciples came unto him, and all those who hungered for his words. And seeing them gathered, he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
"yea, I tell thee truly,
the paths are seven
through the Infinite Garden,
and each must be traversed
by the body, the heart and the mind
as one,
lest thou stumble and fall."
TREE OF LIFE
the 13 Sephirot
creation
the apple | the snake
body
dependence | dominance
heart
judgement | mercy
mind
acceptance | awareness
consciousness