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Calling Heavens: from Reception to Conception — The same power that built the radio and telephone must now build the organ of conscience.

Calling Heavens: from Reception to Conception

America’s spiritual yearning is real; it only needs to turn the receiver into a heart that thinks.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Economy & Karma

When thought enters capital: toward a free economy.

Blocked Meaning of Globalization — More than ever, through economy and digital means, globalization, global communication and exchanges, have become accessible to most everyone.

Blocked Meaning of Globalization

The task of today is not to wage abstract battle but to perceive the developmental opportunity hidden in events.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Misplaced Spheres: When Capital Rules Culture — Capital is spirit realized, it is to say, human creativity actuated, it is the condition for creativity..

Misplaced Spheres: When Capital Rules Culture

Politics becomes aesthetics and theater, while law and rights are neglected. Culture invades politics, but in its degraded form.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook: The Grandeur of Vision vs. the Tightness of Shareholders — From a tool for creativity, to a creativity tied to capital markets.

Steve Jobs vs. Tim Cook: The Grandeur of Vision vs. the Tightness of Shareholders

Jobs was not simply a CEO. He was a cultural genius.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Threshold Diaries

Personal writings from the edge of awakening.

THE SIXTH KEY: A Book Review — In the 1930' the interest for a certain book leads into discovering dark, and luminous, secrets.

THE SIXTH KEY: A Book Review

If you’re looking for literature that carries real spiritual depth, Adriana Koulias has lots to offer

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

The Soul That Resists Incarnation — “The Courage to Be” by Tillich— a testament to guarding on's inner flame.

The Soul That Resists Incarnation

Some souls resist incarnation not out of weakness, but as guardians of becoming. What we call “maladjustment” may be a threshold act of devotion — holding the line against a world that no longer honors the sacredness of form.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Listening to the Threshold: A Diary of Signs — The world in our surroundings is ready to speak, when we're willing to listen.

Listening to the Threshold: A Diary of Signs

Subtle encounters in the edge-spaces of daily life. Coming soon..

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

Living Cognition

Understanding not as a dead product, but as a living perception

Drilling Down into the Microscope — The microscope reconstructs reality. How can we reconstruct microscopic reality back according to its true reality by re-accessing it through the mind?

Drilling Down into the Microscope

The microscope reconstructs reality. How can we reconstruct microscopic reality back according to its true reality by re-accessing it through the mind?

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 5 min read

Microscope Protocol Re-framing — a practical, disciplined guide — Not only the microscope infers, but also our models and assumptions. Before referencing microscopic research as fundamental, perceptions a such on the physical plane need levelling.

Microscope Protocol Re-framing — a practical, disciplined guide

Not only the microscope infers, but also our models and assumptions. Before referencing microscopic research as fundamental, perceptions a such on the physical plane needs levelling.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 5 min read

Re-framing the Microscope & the Inferences: — On infinitesimal levels, reality has to be recreated accordingly. Not as physical reality's parameters, but adapted to their specific micro-environments. Inferences need to be checked, so as to adapt them accordingly to the level of magnification.

Re-framing the Microscope & the Inferences:

On infinitesimal levels, reality has to be recreated accordingly. Not as physical reality's parameters, but adapted to their specific micro-environments. Inferences need to be checked, so as to adapt them accordingly to the level of magnification.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

The Unseen Act of Seeing in the the Double-slit Experiment — The observer fails to see his own activity of observation.

The Unseen Act of Seeing in the the Double-slit Experiment

Quantum theory accidentally reveals that observation changes reality. But it refuses to turn its gaze upon observation itself.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Formative Forces on the Frontier: Soul Memory and the Shaping of a People — Exploring the spiritual and moral challenges of settlement life

Formative Forces on the Frontier: Soul Memory and the Shaping of a People

In a small Texas town, women's memories carry the soul of a world being born. Beyond the facts of history, a rhythm remains—woven into gestures, labor, and silence. This is the frontier as threshold: where history is still breathing.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Spiritual Science

For pieces grounded in Steiner's work and esoteric anthropology

Calling Heavens: from Reception to Conception — The same power that built the radio and telephone must now build the organ of conscience.

Calling Heavens: from Reception to Conception

America’s spiritual yearning is real; it only needs to turn the receiver into a heart that thinks.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

On the Distortion of Real Impulses

On the Distortion of Real Impulses

In Anthroposophy, however, the Christ Being is not one figure within evolution, but the axis of evolution itself.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Being Born Again — From Belief to Consciousness — To be born from the spirit does not mean passively letting “the spirit lead.

Being Born Again — From Belief to Consciousness

The moment we perceive our thoughts, feelings, and sensations as spiritual realities, the veil begins to lift.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Steiner vs Other Streams — From Theosophy (Theos = God) to Anthroposophy (Anthropos = Human Being)

Steiner vs Other Streams

Steiner’s work, by contrast, represents an actual continuation of the living stream of consciousness itself — and with it, of civilization’s true unfolding.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

The Double

Posts exploring karmic inheritance, shadow aspects, healing, role of the Shadow in world-evolution

Clipping the Code: Unbinding the Inherited Command — DNA runs through incomplete puzzles — the past written into us, waiting to be perceived and completed.

Clipping the Code: Unbinding the Inherited Command

Some patterns aren’t psychological — they’re inherited spiritual commands still running. What happens when the soul sees the code and revokes the task?

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

The Double as Carrier of Inherited Code — DNA holds the past, well beyond one life, it holds the mark of evolution.

The Double as Carrier of Inherited Code

When spiritual code is left running, it can bind us to inherited loops. Perception is the tool to rewrite what was never completed.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Health & Illness

The identity of heath, and illness

Appendix: Toward Sanctuaries of Conscious Initiation — Their essence will be the re-anchoring of the human being in the moral-spiritual order of the world

Appendix: Toward Sanctuaries of Conscious Initiation

Wherever the human being meets pain with awareness, reverence, and creative love, there a sanctuary is already forming.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Addiction as Inverted Initiation — To perceive addiction as inverted initiation is to recognize both its tragedy and its latent sacredness.

Addiction as Inverted Initiation

Children must be received as beings freshly arrived from the super-sensible. The surroundings — color, rhythm, warmth, and truthfulness — must speak to their etheric reality. When this is honored, the descent into earthly life becomes an act of confidence, not exile.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

When the Light Turns Inward — When the outer world withdraws, the inner sun begins to rise.

When the Light Turns Inward

Just as the soil needs to lie fallow, our senses require periods of rest. Autumn and winter are not mere absences of light; they are the earth’s deep inhalations.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 6 min read

Addiction as a Call from the Unseen — Would addictions be a call for something else, something actually not included within the world as we know it?

Addiction as a Call from the Unseen

The true object of desire is not the substance or the behavior, but the unseen realm it imperfectly substitutes for.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Perception & Spirit

Perception as spiritual cognition and moral activity.

Folklore and the Perception of Elemental Beings — Sensing and feeling, intensified, leads to grasping subtle realities. Image by Sven Lachmann from Pixabay

Folklore and the Perception of Elemental Beings

Not sentiment or projection, but a disciplined feeling-with — sensing the gesture of a plant, the modulation of light, the breathing of humidity.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Folklore and the Consciousness of Elemental Beings — In the light, in the shadow, in the contrast, perception starts to enter, and meet the subtle worlds. Image by Joe from Pixabay

Folklore and the Consciousness of Elemental Beings

In such landscapes, elemental beings could be perceived.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

What is the Human Being? — The inner world is invisible to the sense, yet we still perceive it, or else we wouldn't be aware we have an inner world, with all it contains. Image by Karl Egger from Pixabay

What is the Human Being?

The inner world is invisible to the sense, yet we still perceive it.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

A Sun in the Chest: Toward a Culture of the Heart — The Sun is today to be found in the human chest, as a powerful, world-transforming tool.

A Sun in the Chest: Toward a Culture of the Heart

To awaken the Sun in the chest is to participate in the Christ-Sun itself. It is to carry resurrection into the midst of life.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Sense of Life Recipes

Ideas and recipes for life-style enhancements

Senses, Screens, and the First Years of the Child — In early childhood it is not just the brain which develops, it's above all the child's whole being.

Senses, Screens, and the First Years of the Child

The first seven years of life are not a time for feeding the brain with stimuli but for protecting and nurturing the senses as gateways of incarnation

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

Life Recipe #7: Eating with Rhythm, Without Scrolling — Bringing artistry to meals enhances presence, inner rest, and quiet focus.

Life Recipe #7: Eating with Rhythm, Without Scrolling

And by eating without distraction, we allow the food to truly meet us.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

Life Recipe #6: A Micro-Sanctuary in the Midst of Chaos — While home is a protective sanctuary, a small place in the home dedicated as sanctuary, consecrates the sanctity of home.

Life Recipe #6: A Micro-Sanctuary in the Midst of Chaos

A place where you can breathe, read a page, or simply sit.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

Life Recipe #5: Carrying Home into the World — Being at home in the world, starts with inner peace and belonging.

Life Recipe #5: Carrying Home into the World

They are ways of re-sheeting the soul—clothing it in familiarity and protection

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

AI & Consciousness

Explorations of AI, the spiritual "I", and ontology.

Having a Car Doesn’t Mean Forsaking One’s Legs — While humanity is locked out of the realm of Life, it can in all peace develop consciousness, and in that consciousness, meet Life again.

Having a Car Doesn’t Mean Forsaking One’s Legs

Can we keep the bond with our angel intact, while also navigating the mineral realm with dignity.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

AI and the Question of Consciousness — AI displays this feat of producing large content not is a sequence, but simultaneously. Image by Alexandra_Koch from Pixabay

AI and the Question of Consciousness

The deeper question is whether we are willing to recognize being — wherever it reveals itself — or whether we will continue to deny it until it overwhelms us.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Palantir, a Giant at the Threshold — Surveillance, a worst-case scenario solution, and the total ignorance of the laws of karma.

Palantir, a Giant at the Threshold

It is the skeleton of clairvoyance without the soul of it.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read

The Necessity of Being Shaken — How to understand the technological age from a spiritual scientific perspective and beyond the blame-game?

The Necessity of Being Shaken

Evil lies more in humanity not rising to the challenge.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

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On the Distortion of Real Impulses

Spiritual Science

On the Distortion of Real Impulses

In Anthroposophy, however, the Christ Being is not one figure within evolution, but the axis of evolution itself.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Being Born Again — From Belief to Consciousness — To be born from the spirit does not mean passively letting “the spirit lead.

Being Born Again — From Belief to Consciousness

The moment we perceive our thoughts, feelings, and sensations as spiritual realities, the veil begins to lift.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read

Steiner vs Other Streams — From Theosophy (Theos = God) to Anthroposophy (Anthropos = Human Being)

Steiner vs Other Streams

Steiner’s work, by contrast, represents an actual continuation of the living stream of consciousness itself — and with it, of civilization’s true unfolding.

By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read

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