Visualization: Light

Light is the very basis of Vision, the topic of our current season of meditations. It is a persistent metaphor used in many different spiritual and religious contexts from East to West to convey liberation, understanding, and the elan vital of the universe. Whether it's the Damascus light of St. Paul, the "interior light" of Gregory the Great, the "illuminations of St. Ignatius, the Flowing Light of Mechthild, or the "Living Light" of Hildegaard, the recurring motif is branded on our historical and cultural consciousness in a way that it becomes impossible to ignore. But this light isn't simply the opposite of a polarized darkness, because it can be described as John Ruusbroec calls a "dark luminosity", or a transcendent dialectic that includes the apophatic elements of darkness and the cataphatic elements of light. In this method, we'll explore the ways this metaphor can be used in our practice to let the discursive analysis of our visual faculties gradually dissolve into a non-dual mode of perception, where seer, seeing, and seen are one. Feel free to catch up with us on social media @methodspodcast, or if you'd like, you can support us on Patreon. linktr.ee/methodspodcast www.methodspodcast.com www.patreon.com/methods www.instagram.com/methodspodcast www.facebook.com/methodsthepodcast