https://wideopenwindows.be/ Wide Open Windows updates https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/relational-quantum-mechanics/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/relational-quantum-mechanics/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Relational Quantum Mechanics challenges the idea of an observer-independent state of the world. This essay explores its unexpected resonance with the dioramic approach: reality not as a finished world seen from different perspectives, but as something that emerges through relations. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/project/how-wow-is-built/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/project/how-wow-is-built/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A look behind the scenes of Wide Open Windows and its unusual publishing architecture, using TheBrain JSON exports to generate relational navigation, semantic structures and multiple representations of the project. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/worlds-we-once-lived-in/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/worlds-we-once-lived-in/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An autobiographical essay about leaving behind political activism, Osho, spiritual teachings, non-duality and the search for enlightenment — and the strange experience of meeting people who still inhabit worlds that once seemed self-evidently important. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/geography-of-consciousness/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/geography-of-consciousness/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 We speak of thoughts arising in awareness, memories buried in the unconscious and consciousness as a field or space. But what happens when these useful spatial metaphors become descriptions of reality? https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/inner-exploration/ongetwijfeld/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/inner-exploration/ongetwijfeld/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A systematic exploration of what we can actually know with certainty. Grown out of a simple yet persistent sense of wonder: how do we distinguish knowing from believing? Which convictions are genuinely supported by evidence, and which turn out to be assumptions we have never seriously examined? https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/mindsets/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/mindsets/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An exploration of mindsets as coherent configurations of experience. Rather than fixed beliefs or personalities, mindsets are ways of perceiving, interpreting and inhabiting reality. The book investigates how different worlds emerge, stabilize and become self-evident through the activity of experiencing. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/living-with-it/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/living-with-it/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A companion to the Configurations of Appearance trilogy. Living With It gathers the central ideas of This Is It, Mindsets and Origins, presenting them in a more direct, personal and practical form. It explores what it is actually like to live once the search for foundations, final truths and higher standpoints begins to lose its grip. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/inner-exploration/spiritual-anarchism/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/inner-exploration/spiritual-anarchism/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Spiritual Anarchism explores what remains when every spiritual certainty, doctrine and ultimate authority are relinquished. Rather than replacing one belief with another, it investigates the possibility of living without any absolute metaphysical foundation. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/reality/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/reality/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Reality explores one of philosophy's oldest questions from a new perspective. Rather than asking what reality ultimately is, it investigates how reality becomes present in experience, how different conceptions of reality emerge, and why they so often appear self-evident. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/language/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/language/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A philosophical investigation into language as one of the primary conditions through which human worlds emerge. Rather than treating language merely as a tool for describing reality, this book explores how words, concepts and distinctions actively participate in shaping experience itself. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/livinginworlds/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/livinginworlds/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Living in Worlds introduces the central ideas of the Dioramics series through the simple observation that human beings do not merely live in one objective reality. We inhabit experiential worlds shaped by perception, language, culture, memory and expectation. The book explores how such worlds emerge, coexist and continuously transform. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/origins/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/origins/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An exploration of one of humanity's oldest questions: where does everything come from? Rather than searching for ultimate beginnings, Origins investigates how ideas of origin emerge within experience itself, and why every explanation eventually encounters the limits of what can be known. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/nonduality/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/nonduality/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A systematic investigation into nonduality as a mode of experience rather than a metaphysical doctrine. The book examines its phenomenology, language, assumptions and interpretations, asking what can actually be said about nondual experience without turning it into another belief system. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/physics/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/analysis/physics/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A philosophical analysis of physics as one of humanity's most successful ways of understanding reality. Rather than questioning its achievements, the book investigates what physics actually describes, what its concepts refer to, and how scientific models relate to the world as it is experienced. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/this-is-it/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/configurations/this-is-it/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A philosophical exploration of the simplest and most easily overlooked fact: this. Before explanation, interpretation, science, spirituality or metaphysics, there is the immediate presence of experience itself. This Is It investigates what becomes visible when attention returns to what is already here. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/how-lifeworlds-emerge/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/books/dioramics/how-lifeworlds-emerge/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The foundational volume of the Dioramics series. How Lifeworlds Emerge investigates how human worlds come into being through the ongoing activity of experiencing. Drawing on phenomenology, cognitive science and the Dioramic Approach, it explores how perception, language, memory and culture together constitute the lived realities we inhabit. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/nietzsche-dioramic/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/nietzsche-dioramic/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An essay on Nietzsche’s “There are no facts, only interpretations” and its proximity to the Dioramic Approach: reality as configured, lived, and stabilized experience. https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/mindsets/ https://wideopenwindows.be/content/publications/essays/mindsets/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A philosophical essay on mindsets as lived configurations: how assumptions, language, perception and expectation organise experience into coherent worlds that feel self-evidently real.