Experience
of the subtle realms
John
Heron
"One
of the most exciting and thought-provoking books I have read for quite some
time." Stephen Hodge
This e-book, published here January 2003, is my 1994 revised edition of Confessions of a
Janus-brain the first edition of which was published by the Endymion Press, London, 1987. It
is about first-person inquiry - my personal experience.
For a co-operative inquiry approach, see Part 2 of Sacred
Science, published by PCCS Books,
Ross-on-Wye, 1998.
Click on either a chapter heading or a subheading of interest to you.
1.
The other world
2.
Belief and ambiguity
3.
Heron's beard and Occam's razor
4. A simple canon of inquiry
1.
Critical decision episodes
2. Taking it down
3. Over the shoulder
4. A wider scheme of things
5.
Dimly felt presences
6.
Invisible healing episodes
7.
From a long way away
8.
Ritual hierarchies
9.
Two world politics
10.
Other world science
1. Going out
2.
Travelling to
3.
Subtle domains
4.
Between the worlds
5. A lucid dream
6.
A double identity?
7. Near death experience
8.
Returning
9.
The subtle matrix and the subtle body
10.
Towards a science of consciousness
1. The horizon
2.
Between sleeping and waking
3.
The sun
4.
Any single star
5.
Special locations
6.
Openings in groups
7.
Between the breaths
8.
Breathing in
9.
At the edge of the visual field
1. Dissolution into the subtle
2.
Suspension and emergence
3.
Facial transfigurations
4.
Windows in the eyes
5.
The transfiguration of retinal lights
6.
Misperception as clairvoyance
7.
Systematically ambiguous percepts
8.
The conceptual transfiguration of perception
9. Transfigurations of personal appearance
10.
Presence and double incarnation
11. Auditory transfigurations
12.
Vocal and musical transfigurations
1. A Tantric window
2.
Synchronicity
3.
Divination procedures
4.
After dinner divination
5.
Oracles and the logic of ambiguity
6.
The guru game
7.
New symbols for old
8.
Categorial addiction
9.
The paradox retained
1.
Cat power
2.
Mouse power
3.
Angles as powers
4.
Lines as powers of vision
5.
Lines as powers between the worlds
6. Powers and the person
7. Eidolon encounter
8.
Subtle matrix meditation
9.
Running in two worlds at once
10.
Being your own ally
11. Subtle knack
12. Elements as powers
13.
Matrix space
14.
More on the concept of an ally
1.
Basic encounter
2.
Intimacy needs
3.
Mutual gazing
4.
Mutual touching
5.
Spacing out and visions through the skin
6.
Sexual ecstasy and continuous creation
7.
The energy orgasm
8.
The manifold of intimate transactions
9.
The shekinah
1. Entering the levity line
2.
Entering the subtle body: bearing
3.
Following the subtle body
4.
Expanding into matrix space
5. The eight corners
6. The parasol
7. The matrix of the immediate other
8.
Relative position
9.
Further afield
10.
Exploring subtle power lines
11.
Entering the gaze-light
12.
Projecting subtle touch
13.
Subtle gesture
14.
Pulsing in two worlds
15.
Tacit invocations
16.
Explicit invocations
17.
Speaking out of matrix time
18.
Expanding into matrix time
19. Speaking and making space
20. Direction, content and manner of speech
21.
The use of intermental fields
22.
Putting it all together
1. Non-Euclidean geometry
2.
Projective geometry as the source of metric geometries
3.
Matrix within matrix
4.
The fourth dimension
5.
Modes of spatial experience
6.
The fifth and sixth dimensions
7. Dimensional clusters
1.
Can the future shape the present?
2.
Recording the future
3.
The spawning womb
4.
Primal events
5.
Physical time, matrix time and transcendental time
6.
Destiny and pre-destination
7. Responsibility and freedom
8. Transcendental time
9.
The four causes
1.
The manifest and the unmanifest
2.
Eros, Cosmos and Logos
3.
Autonomy, parity and hierarchy
4.
The up-hierarchy of Eros
5.
The down-hierarchy of Logos
6.
Cosmos: the dove-tailing of Eros and Logos
7. The illusions of Eros and of Logos
8. The multiple Cosmos
9.
The divine name
1.
Cultural forms, hierarchies of the second kind and archetypal power
2.
Politics, inquiry and art
3. A self-generating culture
4. Rituals
5. Social practices
6. The genesis and development of cultural forms
1. Physical refraction
2. False elevation from below
3.
False reduction from below
4. False elevation from above
5. False reduction from above
6. Fourfold distortion
7. Obliquity of vision
8. Illuminative diffusion