Space in Between Worlds

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  • The Space in Between: Humanity’s Sacred Inner World

    The Space in Between: Humanity’s Sacred Inner World

    “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and greet each other.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

     – How the Sacred Inner Life Makes True Relationship Possible –

     🎵 This essay is an invitation inward—let the music accompany your descent.

    Arvo Pärt – Für Alina
     Performed by Jeroen van Veen
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    PROLOGUE: THE COLLECTIVE WHISPER

    “In moments of upheaval, we discover what has been there all along—an inner world that is ours alone.”

    This truth, etched across civilizations, now faces unprecedented threats in our age of performative transparency and digital surveillance. What follows is both a celebration and a defense—a map of the soul’s sacred geography and the battles being waged at its borders.

    I. THE CATHEDRAL WITHIN: A CROSS-CULTURAL TESTAMENT

    1. The Architecture of the Soul

    • Christian Mysticism: Teresa of Ávila’s Interior Castle describes seven mansions of the soul, the innermost being where God dwells—a blueprint echoed in Ibn Arabi’s Sufi concept of the heart (qalb) as a polished mirror reflecting the Divine.
    • Buddhist Inner Refuge: The Pali Canon’s injunction to “be an island unto yourself” reveals solitude as the foundation of compassion.
    • Indigenous Dreamtime: Aboriginal Australians navigate the Alcheringa through ritual art—proving that inner worlds sustain both personal and communal ecologies.

    2. The Philosophers’ Keep

    • Jung vs. Foucault: Where Jung saw individuation as sacred duty, Foucault exposed the “self” as a historical construct. Yet both agree: interiority is where power is metabolized—or resisted.
    • Taoist Uncorked Block: Lao Tzu’s ideal of wu wei (effortless action) requires an inner void—the emptier the sanctuary, the more it holds.

    3. Modern Science Confirms Ancient Truths

    • Default Mode Network: Neuroscience reveals that daydreaming activates brain regions crucial for creativity, memory, and empathy.
    • Internal Family Systems (IFS): The therapeutic “Self” (capital S) mirrors Hinduism’s Atman—a calm, curious presence beneath trauma’s storms.
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  • Begin Anywhere

    This blog began without a plan.
    Just a need: to write what couldn’t be spoken.
    To name what lingered in the shadows.

    Here, you’ll find fragments—
    journal entries, half-formed thoughts,
    conversations with AI that helped me
    ask the questions I’d been avoiding.

    Some pieces are raw. Some shaped.
    Most hover in the in-between.

    I’m not here to offer wisdom.
    Only the honesty of a process unfolding—
    no arc, no clean message,
    just the marks left by living.

    Some posts stand open. Others wait behind passwords,
    shared only with those who’ve walked close enough
    to know the weight of these words.
    No pressure. No expectations.

    If something here resonates, stay awhile.
    If not, let it pass like weather.

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    Next: Cracks in the Mask—
    just one point on the map.
    Not the beginning.
    Not the end.
    Just where my hands happened to open first.