A space for research and exploration of consciousness
Documentation of the Laboratory’s explorations: observations, protocols, field reports.
An important distinction between two modes of access to understanding: extraction and unveiling. Extraction consists in forcing an understanding: through intensive reading, obstinate questioning, effortful concentration. This is useful but limited: what is extracted remains at the surface. Deep understandings are not extracted. Unveiling is the other mode. Something reveals itself, at a moment one […]
An experience that sustained observation may eventually bring forth: emptiness is not absence. When attention shifts from what is filled to what is empty (between two thoughts, between two breaths, between two objects) a particular quality appears. This quality has been named by several traditions. Buddhists speak of śūnyatā. Christian contemplatives speak of nada, the […]
A recurring observation, and probably the most practically useful: presence in the present moment is not obtained through an effort of concentration. On the contrary: wanting to be present creates a contraction that distances what one seeks. Presence comes when one slightly forgets oneself as an object of attention. When one stops monitoring whether one […]
At the end of the cycle of exploration across these different supports, one observation asserted itself as a methodological principle: inner coherence is itself a reliable indicator of the rightness of an approach. When an observation work is conducted with discipline, and when something emerges that is right, in the sense that it corresponds to […]
The fifth element, the most subtle, poses a singular methodological difficulty. Internal documentation of the observations conducted.
The point at which separate observations stopped being separate. An internal note.
Beyond its role in the chain of primordial elements, fire is observed as a principle of inner discernment: the capacity to distinguish what must stay from what must depart.
Internal documentation of the observations conducted by the Laboratory around fire, the most demanding element in the series.
Internal documentation of the observations conducted by the Laboratory around air, the most subtle element after ether.
Internal documentation of the observations conducted by the Laboratory around earth, as a field of attention distinct from that of water.
Internal documentation of the Laboratory’s explorations around water, considered as a field of attention rather than a material object.
An important methodological clarification: the Laboratory’s work is in no way therapeutic. A note on this distinction.
Why does human consciousness seem to be born in forgetting of what it is? This classical philosophical question takes on a practical dimension when approached through observation.
An ancient philosophical question: how can a unified reality unfold into a multiplicity of distinct individualities? An observation note.
“ When perception is accurate, analysis becomes obvious. ”
The Laboratory’s work nourishes the ecosystem of Sageocracy, Aubremont and Web Harmonie.
