chad charles
agent de voyage intérieur
dissociation vs. transcendence
“Transcendence is conscious dissociation; dissociation is unconscious transcendence.” In the essay Full Release, I outline my position on how there is a final threshold that is met and breached that defines what a peak experience with 5 is. What I did not discuss in...
full release
“The two types of peak experiences are relative and absolute. Relative characterise those peak experiences in which there remains an awareness of subject and object, and which are extensions of the individual’s own experiences. They are not true mystical experiences,...
interventions: interference or assistance?
To talk about interventions, we must come to an understanding of what it means to intervene in general before we progress to talking about interventions in the specific context of 5. Five facilitation, as with many modalities that induce or provoke expanded states of...
a therapeutic window
"vyutthāna—the several-minutes-long process of coming out of deep meditation, of moving from fully introversive awareness to the extroversive state. It is in this vyutthāna phase that we have a golden opportunity to integrate the former with the latter. Kṣema teaches...
toroidal ekstasis
“The torus is a multidimensional geometric figure that lies at the heart of all space-time. The torus demonstrates the universal laws of energy dynamics based on torque and spiralling forces. At one end of the torus is the black hole, representing the yin pole that...
Life As Ceremony
“Pain comes with life, closely accompanied by our “solutions” to it, most of which are all about getting away from it, whether through alcoholic, narcotic, erotic, intellectual, material, egoistical, or spiritual means. The fact that these “solutions,” despite their...
intention vs. attention
Attending to what is present is different than intending something to happen.
essentially in good spirits
"[Source] is not an object; it is radical, ever-present Subject, and thus it is not something that is going to jump out in front of you like a rock, an image, an idea, a light, a feeling, an insight, a luminous cloud, an intense vision, or a sensation of great bliss....
a storey beyond story
"Enlightenment itself evolves. Even though the state remains absolute, the means by which humanity awakens as a totality has its own storyline within the maya [...] Every individual moves through progressive revelations before arriving at the ultimate Revelation....
in support of embodiment: how cishumanism can balance spiritual bypassing
“The “I” is an experience. But it is functional AF”
each one of us
Each one of us is amazing to someoneis ordinary to someoneis loveable to someoneis challenging to someoneis pitiable to someoneis hiding something from someoneis vulnerable to someoneis a liar to someoneis a saviour to someoneis a mirror to everyoneis dear to...
Nature vs. Nurture: For All My Relations
The vasectomy––what I call my V-Day––marked a new chapter in my life story. And it's an unapologetic HIStory. I was very ware that a vasectomy is so much different than using contraception. Seeing the smoke rise from my burning vas deferens solderised a new...
inspired being
“Each inspiration is God’s exhalation”.
s’entraîner à mourir
"Bien mourir c’est permettre au souffle de faire irruption en soi C’est laisser le mouvement devenir pur jeu et accepter d’être rempli par une chaleur vibrante par un repos pénétré de clarté L’ange de la mort invite à une vie exempte de toute résistance."Qu’est-ce qui...
a practice in dying
“If you would
die well,
permit yourself
to fill
with the rush
of breath,
playful movement,
stirring warmth,
and the clarity
of rest.
The angel
of death
bares no harm
to life
unresisted.”
embodied souls
let insufferable loneliness be a wake up callif you feel alone, is it possible that your exaltation is limited? if you can blow your mind through the roof and connect to what we're all a part of, can you also blow your heart through the walls and connect to what we're...
solstice outro
Awakening. Enlightenment. Higher and higher levels of consciousness. Seeking the light. Becoming the light. Being the light. Going beyond the light. Receiving transmission. Giving transmission. Sitting at the feet of the guru. Excitement. The guru must know. Burning...
en toute allégresse
"[La Source] n’est pas objet; c’est quelque chose de radical, éternellement présent, et donc ce n’est pas quelque chose qui vous apparaîtra comme le ferait un roc, une image, une idée, un sentiment, une notion, un nuage lumineux, une vision intense ou alors une...