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Learning Discursive Meditation
This is a brief primer on how to use this site to start learning discursive meditation.
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Meditative Combinatorics
How an arcane meditation technique by medieval mystic-philosopher Ramon Lull can help achieve unbelievable levels of mental focus.
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What does the Mystic see?
Mystics of various religious denominations have reported similar experiences of revelation. In this article I investigate a number of ways of thinking about these experiences.
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Tools for Deepening Conceptual Meditation
Four important things to consider if you want to reach deeper levels of concentration and inspiration using conceptual meditation. Before you read this, start with this introduction.
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Conceptual Meditation: The Basics
This is a basic guide on how to get started with conceptual meditation and how to use your hands as a tool for deepening concentration.
It is a common myth that meditation is exclusively an “eastern” thing, imported to the west from Asia. What I call conceptual meditation is a way of meditating that was practiced both in the pagan ancient world and in medieval Christianity. While eastern meditation can often be roughly framed as intentionally non-conceptual, reaching for a mental quiet beyond thought, conceptual meditation uses thought as a vehicle to insight.
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Secularizing the Western Meditative Tradition
The story of my personal rediscovery of, and my fascination with, the western meditative tradition.
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