esoteric studies

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

Tree of Life | the thirteen flowers


love versus fear | study


love | fear
positive | negative
relaxed | tensed
active | passive
conscious | unconscious
expanded | contracted
joy | pain
dancing feeling | stress fixations

Love versus Fear


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

Hermetic principles


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

Human Being | the brain duality

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

Human Being | soul consciousness

states of consciousness | study


unconscious | conscious
night | day

sleep | awareness
dream | thinking & feeling
sleepwalk | act

Human Being | states of consciousness


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 | cyclical time


breath of life | meditation


be silent

breathin
hope | blossom

surrender

breath out
fruit | let go

be silent

Breath of Life | meditation


The Sevenfold Peace | Tree of Life

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

Tree of Life | the tree in the flower
Tree of Life | bodies & chakras
Tree of Life | the three flowers
Treeof Life | the seven year cycles

— esoteric studies (2013-2018)