Tag: soma
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The Orchestra of Mind and Consciousness
For over four millennia, humans have explored consciousness through various “technologies of ecstasy”. This series highlights methods like fasting, sound, and guided experiences, revealing a collective understanding rather than a singular focus on substances. Ultimately, it shows that consciousness is a universal aspect, accessible through diverse practices.
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They Lost the Ingredients
Every other post in this series has been forensics. Soma is the exception, and I did not expect it to be. Scraping a cup. Reading a manual nobody can use. Standing in a razed sanctuary trying to work out what was in the drink from the shape of the hole it left. In every case…
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Empty First. Then Look. — Fasting as the Oldest Consciousness Technology
Empty First. Then Look. Fasting shows up in every serious consciousness tradition the world has produced. Not as a side practice. Not as self-discipline. As preparation — the thing you do before the thing. That convergence is either a coincidence so persistent it stops functioning as coincidence, or it’s data. In this reading, it’s data.…
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The Cartographer of Inner Space: Stanislav Grof and the Map Nobody Was Supposed to Make Episode 16
Stanislav Grof spent fifty years sitting with people as the reducing valve opened — mapping what surfaces when the ordinary mind’s careful management of consciousness is removed. What he found was not chaos. Not psychosis. Not the random firings of a chemically disrupted brain. Structure. Pattern. And at the end of the map — Moses…
