Free spirituality aims to teach spiritual techniques and practices that enable practitioners to have their own spiritual experiences with confidence. Independent of priests who stand between man and enlightenment and charge tolls for salvation and ascension. Free from religious dogmas that seek to channel and keep down any free-flowing spiritual vitality with a constricted and hardened human spirit. As an alternative to spiritual sects and cults that use peer pressure and coercion to bend their disciples to their will. The basic idea has already been outlined by the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, who spoke of “spiritual ascetics”, which form the basic technical framework of every religion, a collection of special meditation and contemplation techniques, posture and movement exercises, group rituals and transcendental experiences of unity, which, through systematic practice, trigger certain states of consciousness in the practitioners that are perceived as “spiritual”. Accordingly, one can strip a religion completely of its priestly regalia, its codes of law and morals and all other trappings and then encounter its hard core of practical spiritual EXERCISES. Since the basic nature of spiritual experience is the same in all religions, one can safely concentrate on achieving the pure experience without being distracted by religious embellishments. In my experience, a holistically practiced spirituality is primarily about practicing the following basic techniques: First of all, there is AWARENESS, which can be achieved through meditation techniques for neutral, conscious observation of everything that exists, anchored in the here and now. The awakened person discovers their original and basic state as pure consciousness. This is followed by VITALITY, in which the life energy is awakened, the chi or prana, which is cultivated in yoga exercises, tai chi, ecstatic dances and many other vitalizing exercises. The practitioner develops their life spirit to full strength. This is the basis of WHOLENESS, in which body and mind and their individual aspects are brought into harmony with each other through exercises that connect intellect and intuition, synchronize heart and brain, ground the head with gut feeling, locate movement in stillness and more of that kind. The practitioner learns to balance through all situations and challenges in life. The SELF-REFLECTION of one's innermost being then builds on these three basic activations of human life force, which, through metacognitive self-observation exercises, sees through the superficial ego, social role models and cultural and biological archetypes and experiences the intangible spirituality and inexhaustible potential of the absolute emptiness of one's innermost being. Now it is interesting to practice ENLIGHTNING, which consists of practicing darkness meditations in which one concentrates in a darkened room on the absolute emptiness and darkness in one's innermost being until one becomes aware of how an all-pervading light radiating from within shines out of the very darkest darkness, which feels like absolute vitality, joy and awareness, like the innermost source of power of one's own existence and the primordial ground of all being, the rise of power and form, space and time from the potential of absolute emptiness at the center of all existence. By cultivating this inner glow, the self-illuminated person understands that they can create everything from nothing and returns to the daylight with radiant eyes as a new-born creator of light. This experience leads to CREATIVITY, in which one's own creative potential can be consciously and purposefully explored and played out with a variety of creative exercises to stimulate the imagination, cultivate curiosity, the joy of experimentation, the joy of learning, willpower and energy. The person who awakens from being a creature of their circumstances begins to shape their own character in a targeted way, to create their own life path intentionally, to consciously help shape their environment and to feel like God on Earth as the creator of their own providence and co-creator of our common world. Since we as human beings do not exist alone, but are part of a community and society, a culture and nature, the individually oriented spiritual exercises mentioned above are followed by collectively oriented ones. These would be the swearing-in of COMMUNITY SPIRIT, in which the individual group members vibrate with each other and become one in common group rituals, for example through joint dances, songs, work or tasks, in which the individual experiences themselves as an integral part of a common collective being, as a co-creator of sociability and society, as a mortal link in an immortal chain of ancestors. Such ritual exercises can be applied to all sizes of social entities, from community to society to humanity. Those who want to unite with the whole of nature beyond people can fall back on exercises in which ALL-ONENESS can be experienced, in which one's own consciousness is purposefully expanded into the whole universe and one's own heart is cultivated to see EVERYTHING as ONE in universal LOVE, so that one experiences oneself as human being as an expression of the self-observing cosmos or as a spark of the all-encompassing divine or as a creative creature of eternal creation. In this state, the separation between ego and world, subject and object, inside and outside falls away and the limited human being becomes a God-man. Further exercises for collective spirituality are UNDERWORLD JOURNEYS into our animalistic, vegetative, mineral and energetic subconscious and unconscious, in which dream healing and dream journeys, communication with animals and plants, nature spirits and ecosystems, stones and stars are possible. There are also exercises for UPPERWORLD JOURNEYS into our superpsychic, superhuman realm, where we can communicate with spirits, gods, collective beings and the world soul. A complete list of all other special areas of spiritual practices would go too far here, so it should only be said at this point that spirituality fulfills the enormously important overall task of connecting people intimately with themselves, each other and the whole. It is the spiritual glue of every healthy society. Where it is missing, society disintegrates into egoism, kills its own vitality through mindless materialism and replaces sensitive culture with unconscious barbarism. This is precisely the state in which the current global civilization finds itself, led astray by the dark faith of scientific materialism as much as it is tormented by the eternal demons of residual religious fundamentalism. The better alternative to both types of superstition, which only ever demand the unthinking parroting of their mindless nonsense, is the consistent application of techniques of free spirituality in order to bring oneself confidently into a position of sovereign spiritual awareness through selfmade spiritual experiences. Whereby it is of fundamental importance to understand that we cannot rest comfortably on our enlightenment for the rest of our lives by achieving a spiritually awakened state once, but that spirituality is an ever-unfolding personal life path and collective cultural upsurge of an ever-ascending SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION that never ends and invites eternal spiritual growth towards the increasing deification of man. For those who feel addressed by the concept of free spirituality and would like to embark on the path of their spiritual evolution, I offer appropriate initiations as a spiritual teacher of self-awakening techniques, in which I teach numerous practical spiritual exercises. Not as a priest of a religion or representative of a dogma, but as an experienced guide to spiritual self-awakening. If you are interested, please contact me freely by e-mail, name the specific spiritual topic (see below) you would like to be initiated into and make an appointment with me ...