The body is seen as an enclosed system in itself, while in fact, it is a complex weave of various systems. Embodiment and Actual Body Knowledge Actual body knowledge arises when the I learns to think, feel, and will within the organism — not when the organism is granted authority over truth. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
Who sees in the dark, what shapes do appear..? Fantomatic and spectral Not presence but absence. It forms in the mind's eye. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 1 min read
Can you remain present when nothing reassures you? On Fear at the Threshold — and Why It Is Not a Sign to Turn Back But the invitation is not to go forward in the usual sense — it is to stand still without collapsing. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
To cross the threshold means that knowing itself ceases to be a “standing across from” and becomes a standing within. Why the Spiritual World Is Not Elsewhere Stories of demons, fallen entities, or high-tech aliens offer something essential to the modern soul: they re-enchant a world flattened by materialism. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Humanity seems to need a narrative in which “others” want to enter our world. Technology, Fallen Intelligences, and the Human Task Certain beings — highly intelligent, formative, ordering — were no longer at home in the new human condition. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
What is present today is a reconfiguration of Atlantean dynamics in a post-Atlantean form Spiritual Science Atlantis, Power, and the Modern Return of Pre-Moral Forces In Atlantis and Lemuria, Rudolf Steiner describes Atlanteans as fundamentally different in physical, emotional, and cognitive constitution from modern humanity. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
The defining gesture of the 8th sphere is subtraction from being. The 8th Sphere vs. Technological Civilization Technology becomes an Asuric interface only when it fulfills all three of the following conditions By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Besides Ahrimanic and Luciferic beings there are the Asuras, beings of sensual seduction and hardening, attacking human beingness, and banning it to the 8th Sphere. The Asuric Threshold The Asuras do not merely oppose evolution; they seek to harvest fragments of it into a parallel domain By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Children are naturally "religious" as for them the world has to potential of being wonderful. Spiritual Science The age of disembodiment. The I-organization is the active spiritual principle that unifies and governs the other members of the human being. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read
Seemingly a concrete architecture, the Goetheanum's forms express cosmic-etheric forms. Entering the Etheric When attention is consciously placed, it can move into the surrounding space. That space is no longer experienced as empty air or void, but as etheric reality. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Dance often happens out the astral; today it can be done consciously out of an I-etheric relation Moving From the I Movement was not primarily initiated from within the body. It arose from rhythm, from environment, from forces that carried the human being rather than being commanded by it. By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 3 min read
Up in the sky sense-perception disappears, allowing, even demanding for pure perception to arise. Imaginal Cosmology vs. Cognitive Spiritual Science Cognitive spiritual science: knowing how we know By Seeing Beyond (Philippe Lheureux) • 2 min read