Teachings on the quantum depth of human nature — DNA, Inner Self, Wholeness, and the Self as Quanta.
Dr. Bonnici's psychological and Zen research into the nature of the self draws on humanistic depth psychology, quantum physics, and 44 years of meditative embodiment. These teachings explore what we are at the deepest level of our being — beneath ego, beyond belief.
Our biological inheritance — the living stream of ancestral wisdom encoded within every cell of the body. The DNA Self Current refers to the preverbal, pre-linguistic layer of embodied selfhood that meditation makes accessible: a wordless intelligence that predates culture, language, and ego formation.
In Applied Meditation Therapy®, we learn to honor and listen to this biogenetic layer — the body's innate knowing — as a source of healing, creativity, and authentic response to life's challenges.
The deep interior life of the human being — what Dr. Bonnici calls the "visceral core-Self." This is the layer of awareness that witnesses mental content, emotional states, and behavioral patterns from a place of non-reactive, compassionate presence.
Inner Self Depth is accessed through the daily practice of seated meditation and engaged mindfulness. It is the still center from which true insight, creativity, and healing naturally arise.
Applied Meditation Therapy® rests on the fundamental principle that the body, mind, heart, and spirit are mutually interdependent and function together as One Psychobiospiritual Unity, Integrity, and Wholeness. Self Wholeness is not something we achieve — it is our original nature, already present.
The practice of meditation does not create wholeness — it reveals and deepens our felt intimacy with the wholeness that is already the ground of our being.
Dr. Bonnici's doctoral dissertation — awarded at Saybrook University in 1978 — emphasized zazen meditation as a valid scientific methodology for investigating the quantum depth nature of physical reality and the embodied experience of being human.
The Self as Quanta teaching draws on his Neuro-Quantum model of the human nervous system, showing how mystical, spiritual, and religious experiences naturally arise from the quantum depth functioning of our human nervous system — not as aberrations, but as expressions of our deepest biological nature.
By Andrew Shugyo Daijo Bonnici, Ph.D. · April 8, 2004 · All Rights Reserved
Meditation is not an altered state of consciousness or a transcendental state of being. Meditation is the practice of a natural, pristine, or original Way of being your human body and being in your body with wakefulness, bright wisdoming and genuine compassion toward all of your passing thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions.
The true body of meditation is not restricted to the seated form. The root body of meditation as a Way of life is the practice of resting on the true ground of our unconditional nature. We truly rest in the practice of our unconditional nature when we live our life without constantly grasping and pushing away at our felt experiences.
When we rest on the True ground of our unconditional being we do not identify with the ever arising impermanence of our egocentric desires or the endless self-chatter and self-preoccupation about our likes and dislikes. When you practice the root body of meditation as living unconditionally moment by moment, you may be said to actualize and authenticate the unfathomable depth of your humanness and the wholeness of your body wisdoming.
The true practice of meditation is exactly the tangible process of breathing into the center point of your lower abdomen. Meditation is feeling the pause at the end of your inhalation, resting in the center point of gravity, and deeply sensing the felt wholeness of your body wisdoming. The practice of meditation and the felt wholeness of your body wisdoming is also the tangible process of breathing out and letting your whole body become soft, gentle, peaceful, vital and wakeful.
The tangible bodily experience of living meditation as the wholeness of body wisdoming is like the feeling of a firm stone in your hand that communicates a constant and trustworthy refuge of coolness, weight, presence and truth. Meditation as the felt wholeness of body wisdoming is like the wetness of water that unconditionally upholds, cares for, and nourishes all life.
Living meditation is exactly breathing silence into the wholeness of deep body wisdoming, and being the wholeness of deep body wisdoming is your true self that practices living unconditionally throughout the activities and relationships of daily life.
May this teaching uphold the unconditional nature of Zen meditation and mindfulness in your daily life, deepen your felt intimacy with the wisdoming of breath, and encourage you to live as this Only Moment Body of ease and joy within the clarifying light of vast impermanence and the undeniable truth of death and dying.
Dr. Bonnici offers worldwide video counseling in Applied Meditation Therapy® — $175 per hour, no phone charges from anywhere in the world.