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  FOUNDER, DIRECTOR | BREUKELEN THERAPEUTIC

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY  

beyond self

In a society that has become increasingly externally focused we often look for ourselves by looking to others for our reflection and value. | This search in the external world for what lies in our deeper, inner experience will always fail to satisfy us and, ironically, will maintain a distance between ourselves and others, as an external search for self can only experience the external world as a mirror. | While Synaesthetic Surround elicits our inner, visceral experience, it is from this experience and the satisfaction that comes of knowing this aspect of ourselves that we are able to look outward and feel the satisfaction of knowing the world and the people around us. | In creating a space outside of the functional narratives of our daily lives, Synaesthetic Surround focuses not only on immediate, visceral experience, but on the grand, mythic narratives in which we often forget to place ourselves. | We are beings who create, who question, who follow curiosity and passion, who fall in love, yet from our functional modes we tend to focus on our concerns and anxieties around what we do. This happens because our experience is optimized to focus on functionality and survival, but it is not our only option. | We have all had inspiring moments in which we found ourselves surrounded by both more immediate and grander senses of life. | We often assume that these moments will be few and far between, but this assumption is based on our daily experience of consciousness. | Synaesthetic Surround elicits states beyond this functional, daily experience and then integrates these experiences into daily life through its therapeutic techniques and through exercises conducted between sessions. | Ultimately, both our inner lives and the functional aspects of our lives improve from our increase in creativity, perspective, problem solving abilities and inspiration. |

LIGHT | SOUND | BRAINWAVE

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SENSORY | EMOTION | SOMATIC