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...
The Centre of the Torus
“The torus is a multidimensional geometric figure that lies at the heart of all space‑time.”– Richard Rudd The torus is a helpful metaphor for thinking about the movement of primordial consciousness and where our personal consciousness can be seen to be positioned...
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....
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.”
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...
breath business
There is a part of me that cringes at mixing business and medicine together. There is a part of me that is happy and excited to be able to share with you what I have learned and have come to embody.
Ultimately, all parts of me are awash in gratitude for having anything to share with you at all—and the means with which to share it. I can only share the Breath in this way because you meet me.
objectif : lâcher-prise
"Le vrai lâcher-prise ne se force pas. Il n’est pas non plus une chose à laquelle on se soumet. Il s’agit plutôt d’un pas que l’on fait vers la découverte du vrai pouvoir. C’est accepter de céder, de se jeter volontairement dans les bras d’une intelligence plus vaste,...
with surrender in mind
“True surrender is never an enslavement, but rather a step toward the discovery of real power. It is the active yielding to a larger intelligence, without trying to control the outcome. True surrender is not blind. It requires real discrimination—the capacity to...