Love With No Place to Go
Perhaps Being Seen Isn't Only About Identity
Elias Lumen
I had an NDE when I died briefly five years ago. I have spent the years since figuring out what happened: EEG, research, and stubbornness. I write about consciousness and why we suffer more than we need to.
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EEG Field Report #041 - August 10, 2026 - The Bloodhound at the Edge of Awareness
Apparently, if you want to know where the boundary of where attention lies, a sufficiently enthusiastic bloodhound is a perfectly serviceable scientific instrument.
We Forgot That We Projected It - Separation, Gods, and the Strange Architecture of Remembering
Perhaps Forgetting is What Makes Separation Feel Real at All.
EEG Field Report #040 - August 4, 2026
The Transition Before the Breath - A Two Session Comparison
The Conversation Is the Method
Or, Why Knowledge Grows Best When It Is Held Without Possession
The Unintentional Laboratory
Why Curiosity Should Arrive Before Judgment
The Silence Was the Ecstasy - What Saint Teresa of Ávila May Have Been Describing
Field Notes from Chapter Two of The Open Door
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Disclaimer: No operating systems were enlightened during the writing of this article. Linux users may nevertheless insist they were.
Convergent Phenomenology - Why Mystics Keep Describing the Same Thing
Field Notes from Chapter Two of The Open Door
The Open Door: Why I Am Writing This Book
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