The Journal

Notes from
the silence

Writings on silence and sound, ceremony and meditation, and the science and spirit behind a held day. New notes appear as they come.

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N°086 July 2026Silence5 min

Landing after a festival, when the weekend will not let go

The festival is over but you are still buzzing. Scattered, flat, not quite back in your own life. What the post-festival dip actually is, and how one deliberate day of silence helps you land.

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N°076 July 2026Ceremony5 min

When the ceremony is over but your head is not

You sat in a ceremony, and days later it still will not settle. Restless, tangled in thought, unable to give the experience a place. An honest look at integration, and why one held day of silence is often the missing piece.

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N°065 July 2026Silence2 min

What actually happens on a day of silence

A plain walk-through of One Day Silence in Rosmalen, hour by hour, what it is, what it is not, and why one held day of quiet does more than it sounds like.

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N°053 July 2026Meditation3 min

Sitting in the dark

Taoist and Tibetan traditions both send practitioners into total darkness to meditate. What darkness does to the body, what the old texts claim, and how to try a gentle version at home.

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The archive

Reading the Great Pyramid with cosmic rays Science1 July 20262 min The chamber that hums at 110 hertz Frequency27 June 20263 min The Great Cosmic Breath Spirituality24 June 20262 min The four turnings of the year Ceremony20 June 20263 min

Six threads

Silence · 02 On stillness itself: what a day without words does, and why quiet is a practice rather than an absence. Ceremony · 02 On ritual and the turning points of the year: equinoxes, solstices, and the small acts that mark a threshold. Meditation · 01 On turning inward: breath, darkness, contemplation, and the states a quiet body makes possible. Frequency · 01 On sound and resonance: singing bowls, gong, voice, ancient acoustics, and what vibration does to a nervous system. Science · 01 On what research can actually say: cosmic rays, resonance studies, physics and physiology around silence and sound. Spirituality · 01 On the older maps: Tao, gnosis, hermetics, and the traditions that treated silence as a doorway.