In his classic book, Light on Yoga, Iyengar called yoga “the science of religions.” If this is the case, it’s most fruitful experiment might be an endeavor known as spiritual autolysis. The term autolysis simply means “self-digestion,” and since the Spirit is that aspect of the human being which surrounds the mental, emotional, and physical aspects, spiritual autolysis is the process by which you allow your Spirit to digest everything about you that can be digested. All your false identifications, all your erroneous assumptions, everything you take for granted is slowly eaten alive by your Spiritual enzymes.
I am starting this website to be a record of my own experiences with spiritual autolysis. It is a distillation of self – my distillation of Philip. Who or what is Philip? What is he capable of physically, mentally, and emotionally? What is his relationship to the world and to those around him?
Using a variety of techniques, these are the questions I will be asking myself. Ultimately, the task of spiritual autolysis – and of self distillation – is to ask myself what’s True until I know.
Do you know?