Countless books have been written. Many people enjoy reading. Yet the book that matters most – the one that lies in consciousness itself and cannot be overwritten with lies – is surprisingly unread.
We often believe we think freely – but often we merely borrow reasoning that has already been approved. It feels safe. It feels like knowledge. But what is genuine in consciousness rarely shows itself through the conclusions of others. It shows itself only when you look for yourself. Otherwise you see the shadow – and call it reality.
At Holy Paradox I try to point at what keeps reappearing, in shifting words and images: that the observer is, at the source, not separate from what is observed, that opposites are not enemies but the same movement seen from two directions. Similar impulses exist in the mystical traditions – in Zen's direct pointing, in Taoism's yin and yang, in Sufism's inward turn, in Advaita's recognition of the One. Same direction, different expressions. I don't mention them as an expert. I simply see the same source expressed in different ways – and it is this mechanism, my own version of consciousness, that I am trying to express. Well aware that this too hardens into form and becomes a kind of spiritual fingerprint. As everything does, when you try to explain what moves. Film or photograph – dimensions are always lost. And when dimensions are lost, the lesser is mistaken for the whole. Then we kill for our dogmatic faith in the limited perspective.
Anyone who examines my texts critically will find much of my thinking in other philosophers and thinkers. No other outcome is possible when we trace our way back to the source.
I write this mainly for my own sake – to document the full circle of consciousness and then be able to let it go. Because applying the seeing is an entirely different thing from talking about it.
What exists in consciousness is found again and again, and expressed anew in every age. But transferring it to someone else – that cannot be done. You can point. You can plant a seed. But the choice to open the eye that joins inner and outer seeing is yours.
Good luck! And if you read all the way here – good God – who are you, really?
Want to see what I mean — told as a small exercise around a round table, not as final answers?
A few straight answers
- Who are you?
- Someone who spent too many years looking in the wrong direction — and finally noticed the looking itself. No titles worth listing. Just a person with a keyboard and too many questions.
- Why Holy Paradox?
- Because the inner world kept showing up in the outer one, and nobody was talking about it without either preaching or selling. This is my attempt to point — not to teach.
- Are you a teacher or guru?
- Absolutely not. If you came here for certainty, you'll be disappointed. If you came to explore, you might already know more than I do.
- How should I read this?
- Slowly. Not like news. Like a pointer in stillness. The text isn't the truth — your own recognition is. Start wherever you feel pulled.
- Can I write to you?
- Yes — questions, disagreements, or reports that your banana bends the wrong way. Replies may be slow. That isn't you being ignored; it's me practicing not pretending I'm more important than the message.
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