A somatic biography
I became interested in contemplative practices six years ago. For some reason, it didn’t remain a side hobby, but quickly became the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Oct 24, 2023
- 5 min
Looking for safety
The feeling of safety may be the most important component of spiritual and contemplative practices. Most attention goes often to how...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Oct 14, 2023
- 7 min
Olé: Open. Listen: Express!
A manifesto for deep embodiment Imagine Imagine a moment in which you surrendered yourself into the embrace of another being you love (a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Sep 8, 2023
- 12 min
The Life Divine, Ch 6-9
With Chapter 6, Sri Aurobindo starts to explore in greater detail the integral view that he seeks to establish. After having shown the...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Aug 20, 2023
- 11 min
The Life Divine, ch 3-5
After having introduced the limitations of one extreme view on the nature of reality—reductionist materialism—we now approach the other...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 6, 2023
- 10 min
How to deal with the past?
Life is becoming. We all enter this game as it is already rolling—and hopefully it will still be rolling when we exit. Nobody actually...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jun 3, 2023
- 7 min
Yogasāra
Prelude Over the past five years, my life became a laboratory, a space entirely devoted to understand and dive into the nature of...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Apr 8, 2023
- 8 min
Bhairavakrama
The following sketch of practice is an attempt at going through several of the meditations presented in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (ca....
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 26, 2023
- 7 min
Redeeming Desire
Spinoza famously stated that ‘desire is man’s very essence’ (Ethica, III, def. of affects, 1). Ordinarily, desire manifests in two...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Mar 4, 2023
- 10 min
The calls of Bliss
Perhaps you glimpsed at that in a piece of art. Art takes the materiality of sensory experience, it refines, reshuffles, restructures,...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Feb 3, 2023
- 2 min
The Sacrifice
The first time I was born out of fear and ignorance. Seeing this folly, following the path of the Silent Sage, I turned around, seeking...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Jan 8, 2023
- 2 min
Scaffolds
Force develops against resistance. Growth demands constraints. When constraints work systematically and methodically, they create a...
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Andrea Sangiacomo
- Nov 6, 2022
- 14 min
The art of playful action
In the beginning of the Bhagavad Gītā (2.50) we encounter the following short definition: yogaḥ karmasu kuśalam, which might be...
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