I am an avid devotee of Jung...one of my best experiences was being clinically supervised by a Jungian analyst; he took classic behaviorism and turned it on its head! I've been addicted ever since. Anyway, I particularly loved this: "We must be honest and recognize that the world needs fewer people giving opinions, and more conscious individuals—those who have confronted their shadow, embraced their otherness, and endured their solitude." That is especially challenging now, when "shadow work" is the newest and hottest trend in personal development. Those who've done the work don't need to crow about it...and sometimes we miss the bliss of solitude.
When we can humbly engage in our shadow work. Discover our unique values and thus individuate, we are better able to engage in the society and work for the good of all.
“What then happens when phenomenology becomes ontology?” — Henry Corbin, “Imagination and Imaginal”
“We must postulate a cosmic order of nature beyond our control to which both the outward material objects and the inward images are subject.” – Wolfgang Pauli
“Synchronicity shows the possibility of getting rid of the ‘incommensurability between the observed and the observer’ and thereby bringing about a ‘unity of being.’” — Carl G. Jung
“Reason judges that a cause cannot be the effect of what it is a cause for, but the one for whom truth is revealed in its totality sees that a cause is effect of its own effect, and its effect is its cause.” — Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArabi
The four core ideas of Psychocosmology are Intent, Will, Perception, and Silent Knowledge.
1. Intent
Awareness of the Universe as a Guiding Force
This concept refers to a primordial awareness that forms and pervades all existence. It is not synonymous with "intention" as in human decision-making. Rather, it is the universal directive or source current that shapes all events and realities. It is impersonal, beyond morality, and not tied to individual desire or ego. Everything that exists—thoughts, bodies, dreams, even death—is an echo or expression of this cosmic current.
To interact with this force is not to command it but to align with it—to attune one's entire being so that this current effortlessly flows through and animates one’s actions. In that sense, it's not about imposing will upon the world but becoming a conduit through which the world is reshaped. This requires an unlearning of personal will and an opening to something vast and indifferent—but also sublimely and unfathomably alive.
Intent can be "summoned," not by effort or desire, but by entering a specific state of awareness—
still, silent, transparent.
2. Will
The Energetic Backbone of the Self
Will, in this system, is not the same as determination or discipline. It is a subtle force, a faculty that allows one to manipulate the structure of reality. It's described more as a force that comes from the core of being rather than the intellect or emotions. This will can, for example, cause one to move mountains, survive impossible situations, or traverse hidden dimensions of perception—not metaphorically, but concretely, within the altered or expanded awareness of the seer.
Will is cultivated by discipline without expectation, by burning away the need for comfort, validation, or outcome. When fully developed, this power of will is what allows one to reshape perception, to affect the world, to defy ordinary laws—not through strength or emotion, but through pure transparent alignment. It is tightly related to the idea of energy integrity. Those whose lives are fragmented, addicted to habitual thought patterns, or ruled by social scripts cannot access this form of will.
3. Perception
The Malleable Framework of Reality
In this view, perception is not passive—it is the act of constructing reality itself. What we call the "world" is merely a consensual hallucination built from a limited configuration of awareness. Ordinary perception locks us into a narrow band of possible experience, like a radio fixed to one station. But the system teaches that perception can be shifted, not just subtly but radically. Through intense training and altered states, one can see the world in profoundly different ways—not metaphorically but precisely, where time dilates, thoughts become beings, space folds, and the body is no longer bound by its usual laws. These aren’t hallucinations in the trivial sense, but alternate modes of knowing and perception. One goal of the path is to break free of the default perceptual grid and reconfigure one's sensory apparatus so that the infinite becomes perceivable. This altered perception is not fantasy. It is simply the restoration of possibility that routine social conditioning erases.
4. Silent Knowledge
Direct Knowing Without Thought
This is the crown jewel of the entire system. Silent knowledge is a form of immediate, total understanding that bypasses language, logic, memory, and self-reflection. It is a gnosis—a total-body awareness that is instantaneous, timeless, and utterly beyond rationalization.
In this state, one does not deduce or infer; one simply knows, with a certainty so deep that it cannot be questioned. It is not mystical in the sense of being vague—it is exact, crystalline, electric.
Accessing silent knowledge requires surrendering the internal chatter that defines the ego. It is not “learned” but remembered, because it is native to the deeper self beneath the personality. Paradoxically, it is always present, but almost always inaccessible, buried beneath compulsive “strange loops” of recursive thought.
To return to silent knowledge is to return to one’s origin-point, not as a person, but as a node of the cosmos itself.
Final Note: The System as a Whole
These four forces—intent, internal will, flexible perception, and direct knowing—form a complete epistemology, ontology and phenomenology. They imply that:
· Reality is created by and from perception.
· Perception can be directed by will.
· Will can be aligned with the universal Will.
· That knowledge can be known directly, bypassing the faculty of reason.
But this path is not romantic. It requires the destruction of ordinary selfhood, abandonment of the human form, detachment from comfort, and facing the Abyss of Self without flinching.
It is not an escapist's path.
***
“Qadi Sa’id develops a concept of time which is allied to the ontology of the mundus imaginalis and of the subtle body. Each being has a quantum miqdar of its own time, a personal time, which behaves like a piece of wax when it is compressed or else stretched. The quantum is constant, but there is a time which is compact and dense, which is the time of the sensible world; a subtle time, which is the time of the ‘imaginal world’; and a supra-subtle time, which is the time of the world of pure Intelligences. The dimensions of contemporaneity increase in relation to the ‘subtlety’ of the mode of existence: the quantum of time which is given to a spiritual individual can thus encompass the immensity of being, and hold both past and future in the present.” — Henry Corbin, “Temple and Contemplation”
***
“The Fifth Solitude is the Hermitage of the Transgressor.”
“This is the solitude of one who willfully steps outside the world of mortal man as an act of magical power, whose path transgresses the “boundaries of the city” and crosses over the many borders of convention, daring to go forth into such domains and regions as remain uncharted or forbidden. The Fifth Solitude is the hermitage of one who passes beyond the pale of any kingdom, government or rulership, save that of his chosen Deity or Intent. It is the condition of one who actively engages in magical praxis outside the parameters and gravities of custom, convention, or rules of mankind, whether such boundaries be the outer physical limitations of spatiality, appearance or behaviour, or the inward limitations of spirituality, mentality, moral awareness, emotional sensibility, sexuality, and so forth. It is the hermitage of the laughing saint who prays with equal mirth in graveyard or brothel, chapel or thicket. This is the path of one who seeks for the Gnosis of Liberty, who walks without attachment to fear or hope into the Tameless Wilderness of his own Self-vision. —Andrew Chumbley “Seven Shades of Solitude.”
Hi. It can be interpreted in many ways, but personally I believe what's most important is understanding that someone who truly loves themselves and follows their own truth may not receive admiration—instead, they might be hated or envied by those around them. That's why personal growth must be lived genuinely, from within, for ourselves—not as food for the ego.
Yes, that resonates. I think that what really hooked me was that self love might be dangerous, and then I wondered how it’s even possible to hide it. People who love themselves are so shiny and well cared for, it’s quite hard to hide that amount of glow. I love your content, thank you for sharing it.
My most frightening observation of the herd is that it shows us that people do not generally have actual values. The herd instinct is bascically driven by the awareness that there is safety in numbers. People do whatever they percieve the herd to doing. The right in the US claimed to be the freedom party, but when their alpha proves fascist, they go along with him. On the left one of the fundamental values was always free speech. We hated the right, in large part due to their pro-censorship proclivities. All it took was for a few of thier leaders to tweet that we need to control free speech, and they shifted their positions as if being anti-censorship wasnt a core value for as long as anyone can remember. The US Government is using propaganda bots to foment division and rracial tension, on social media, creating the perception that herd conformity equals hate. We in some shit, cuz. Luckily, the viel is paper thin, and there''s is an exponential rise in "awake" folks. If enough people reach illuminated sovreignty, that will create a new herd, one with a much more powerful attractor than instinct: entrainment.
I am an avid devotee of Jung...one of my best experiences was being clinically supervised by a Jungian analyst; he took classic behaviorism and turned it on its head! I've been addicted ever since. Anyway, I particularly loved this: "We must be honest and recognize that the world needs fewer people giving opinions, and more conscious individuals—those who have confronted their shadow, embraced their otherness, and endured their solitude." That is especially challenging now, when "shadow work" is the newest and hottest trend in personal development. Those who've done the work don't need to crow about it...and sometimes we miss the bliss of solitude.
When we can humbly engage in our shadow work. Discover our unique values and thus individuate, we are better able to engage in the society and work for the good of all.
Summa Phenomenologica
Towards a Psychocosmology
“What then happens when phenomenology becomes ontology?” — Henry Corbin, “Imagination and Imaginal”
“We must postulate a cosmic order of nature beyond our control to which both the outward material objects and the inward images are subject.” – Wolfgang Pauli
“Synchronicity shows the possibility of getting rid of the ‘incommensurability between the observed and the observer’ and thereby bringing about a ‘unity of being.’” — Carl G. Jung
“Reason judges that a cause cannot be the effect of what it is a cause for, but the one for whom truth is revealed in its totality sees that a cause is effect of its own effect, and its effect is its cause.” — Muḥyī al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArabi
The four core ideas of Psychocosmology are Intent, Will, Perception, and Silent Knowledge.
1. Intent
Awareness of the Universe as a Guiding Force
This concept refers to a primordial awareness that forms and pervades all existence. It is not synonymous with "intention" as in human decision-making. Rather, it is the universal directive or source current that shapes all events and realities. It is impersonal, beyond morality, and not tied to individual desire or ego. Everything that exists—thoughts, bodies, dreams, even death—is an echo or expression of this cosmic current.
To interact with this force is not to command it but to align with it—to attune one's entire being so that this current effortlessly flows through and animates one’s actions. In that sense, it's not about imposing will upon the world but becoming a conduit through which the world is reshaped. This requires an unlearning of personal will and an opening to something vast and indifferent—but also sublimely and unfathomably alive.
Intent can be "summoned," not by effort or desire, but by entering a specific state of awareness—
still, silent, transparent.
2. Will
The Energetic Backbone of the Self
Will, in this system, is not the same as determination or discipline. It is a subtle force, a faculty that allows one to manipulate the structure of reality. It's described more as a force that comes from the core of being rather than the intellect or emotions. This will can, for example, cause one to move mountains, survive impossible situations, or traverse hidden dimensions of perception—not metaphorically, but concretely, within the altered or expanded awareness of the seer.
Will is cultivated by discipline without expectation, by burning away the need for comfort, validation, or outcome. When fully developed, this power of will is what allows one to reshape perception, to affect the world, to defy ordinary laws—not through strength or emotion, but through pure transparent alignment. It is tightly related to the idea of energy integrity. Those whose lives are fragmented, addicted to habitual thought patterns, or ruled by social scripts cannot access this form of will.
3. Perception
The Malleable Framework of Reality
In this view, perception is not passive—it is the act of constructing reality itself. What we call the "world" is merely a consensual hallucination built from a limited configuration of awareness. Ordinary perception locks us into a narrow band of possible experience, like a radio fixed to one station. But the system teaches that perception can be shifted, not just subtly but radically. Through intense training and altered states, one can see the world in profoundly different ways—not metaphorically but precisely, where time dilates, thoughts become beings, space folds, and the body is no longer bound by its usual laws. These aren’t hallucinations in the trivial sense, but alternate modes of knowing and perception. One goal of the path is to break free of the default perceptual grid and reconfigure one's sensory apparatus so that the infinite becomes perceivable. This altered perception is not fantasy. It is simply the restoration of possibility that routine social conditioning erases.
4. Silent Knowledge
Direct Knowing Without Thought
This is the crown jewel of the entire system. Silent knowledge is a form of immediate, total understanding that bypasses language, logic, memory, and self-reflection. It is a gnosis—a total-body awareness that is instantaneous, timeless, and utterly beyond rationalization.
In this state, one does not deduce or infer; one simply knows, with a certainty so deep that it cannot be questioned. It is not mystical in the sense of being vague—it is exact, crystalline, electric.
Accessing silent knowledge requires surrendering the internal chatter that defines the ego. It is not “learned” but remembered, because it is native to the deeper self beneath the personality. Paradoxically, it is always present, but almost always inaccessible, buried beneath compulsive “strange loops” of recursive thought.
To return to silent knowledge is to return to one’s origin-point, not as a person, but as a node of the cosmos itself.
Final Note: The System as a Whole
These four forces—intent, internal will, flexible perception, and direct knowing—form a complete epistemology, ontology and phenomenology. They imply that:
· Reality is created by and from perception.
· Perception can be directed by will.
· Will can be aligned with the universal Will.
· That knowledge can be known directly, bypassing the faculty of reason.
But this path is not romantic. It requires the destruction of ordinary selfhood, abandonment of the human form, detachment from comfort, and facing the Abyss of Self without flinching.
It is not an escapist's path.
***
“Qadi Sa’id develops a concept of time which is allied to the ontology of the mundus imaginalis and of the subtle body. Each being has a quantum miqdar of its own time, a personal time, which behaves like a piece of wax when it is compressed or else stretched. The quantum is constant, but there is a time which is compact and dense, which is the time of the sensible world; a subtle time, which is the time of the ‘imaginal world’; and a supra-subtle time, which is the time of the world of pure Intelligences. The dimensions of contemporaneity increase in relation to the ‘subtlety’ of the mode of existence: the quantum of time which is given to a spiritual individual can thus encompass the immensity of being, and hold both past and future in the present.” — Henry Corbin, “Temple and Contemplation”
***
“The Fifth Solitude is the Hermitage of the Transgressor.”
“This is the solitude of one who willfully steps outside the world of mortal man as an act of magical power, whose path transgresses the “boundaries of the city” and crosses over the many borders of convention, daring to go forth into such domains and regions as remain uncharted or forbidden. The Fifth Solitude is the hermitage of one who passes beyond the pale of any kingdom, government or rulership, save that of his chosen Deity or Intent. It is the condition of one who actively engages in magical praxis outside the parameters and gravities of custom, convention, or rules of mankind, whether such boundaries be the outer physical limitations of spatiality, appearance or behaviour, or the inward limitations of spirituality, mentality, moral awareness, emotional sensibility, sexuality, and so forth. It is the hermitage of the laughing saint who prays with equal mirth in graveyard or brothel, chapel or thicket. This is the path of one who seeks for the Gnosis of Liberty, who walks without attachment to fear or hope into the Tameless Wilderness of his own Self-vision. —Andrew Chumbley “Seven Shades of Solitude.”
*
Very interesting, thank you. Would you like to expand on the last bit about hiding self love?
Hi. It can be interpreted in many ways, but personally I believe what's most important is understanding that someone who truly loves themselves and follows their own truth may not receive admiration—instead, they might be hated or envied by those around them. That's why personal growth must be lived genuinely, from within, for ourselves—not as food for the ego.
Yes, that resonates. I think that what really hooked me was that self love might be dangerous, and then I wondered how it’s even possible to hide it. People who love themselves are so shiny and well cared for, it’s quite hard to hide that amount of glow. I love your content, thank you for sharing it.
My most frightening observation of the herd is that it shows us that people do not generally have actual values. The herd instinct is bascically driven by the awareness that there is safety in numbers. People do whatever they percieve the herd to doing. The right in the US claimed to be the freedom party, but when their alpha proves fascist, they go along with him. On the left one of the fundamental values was always free speech. We hated the right, in large part due to their pro-censorship proclivities. All it took was for a few of thier leaders to tweet that we need to control free speech, and they shifted their positions as if being anti-censorship wasnt a core value for as long as anyone can remember. The US Government is using propaganda bots to foment division and rracial tension, on social media, creating the perception that herd conformity equals hate. We in some shit, cuz. Luckily, the viel is paper thin, and there''s is an exponential rise in "awake" folks. If enough people reach illuminated sovreignty, that will create a new herd, one with a much more powerful attractor than instinct: entrainment.
This is really helpful - thank you!