Somnio ergo sum

Some years ago I began to have lucid dreams and out of body experiences every night. It wasn’t that altered states of consciousness or transpersonal experiences were new for me—since I was a kid I would have weird dreams, or get fixated on ideas like infinity. In my twenties I joined a monastery inspired by Paramhansa Yogananda to explore meditation, breathwork, and consciousness. After a decade or so of that, I began a slow process of verifying my experiences and assumptions against a wide range of philosophies, psychologies, indigenous teachings, physics theories, and eastern contemplative practices. Over the years I’ve tried to synthesize things I’ve found that work, drawing from: transpersonal and process oriented psychology, somatic psychotherapy, perennial mythology, knowledge phenomenology, Toltec Nagual dreaming, Vedic Advaita, Prajnaparamita from Mahayana Buddhism, Mahamudra from Tibetan buddhism, the Taoist alchemy of Cantong Qi, and an original and unique school of dreaming and alchemy founded by Falco Tarassaco in Damanhur, Italy. I’ve also developed my own methodology for transobjective ontological research, which allows for the study of consciousness while also experiencing and entering it. But what finally helped me break through the limits of perception was learning to lucid dream (asleep and awake), which I continue researching today. My goal is to reverse engineer the things I experience into new language, working models, cosmologies, and dream practices. So, what you will find on this blog is a collection of articles exploring how to reorient perception in order to experience reality. I’ve also posted a thesis which, although dense and experimental, represents the foundation of my research. You can buy it in text form at cost or find it free on this site.