About
The Cosmology
Unfolding awakening through form
This work offers structural dharma: the luminous order of reality, revealed as authorship dissolves and the body is unburdened, with clarity and integration unfolding naturally.
Unfolding Through Form
Awakening beyond the small, fearful, defended, and disconnected self-structure is not only possible; in this age, the path to our true nature is becoming increasingly accessible. Yet it is not mind-oriented or effort-based, nor can it bypass the body. It is a lived emergence, expressed through an integrated and clarified bodymind; healthy, mature relationships; and responsible conduct in the world.
Over the past two decades, my path has unfolded through refined perception, subtle-body revelation, spontaneous encounters with the numinous, and relational thresholds that made one thing clear: realization must enter the tissues, shape behavior, and express through relationship to become lived truth.
From an embodied perspective, experience has remained cohesive and present since birth, without a felt split between awareness and the body. Witnessing consciousness has been continuously available, even as subtle-body processes and maturation unfolded. This continuity oriented the path toward integration rather than recovery, allowing realization to enter form directly and reorganize life from within.
This is an ongoing refinement at the level of the bodymind, nervous system, and personality structure. Liberation is not separate from life; it is revealed through how deeply reality is allowed to reorganize the way we live.
When one aligns deeply with truth, life becomes a precise mirror—accelerating integration, dissolving bypass, and revealing what remains hidden in isolation. Practiced collectively, even more becomes possible. Awakening happens of its own accord; what we can participate in—before, during, and after—is the steady unburdening of the bodymind from density and contraction, allowing its open, clear, and luminous nature to come forward moment by moment.
My role is to articulate and hold a living mirror of the structural reality of this nature.
The Cosmology of the Awakened Body names the luminous order of reality through which this work arises. What is often experienced as “the field” is the lived recognition of this order—a coherence that becomes apparent as divinity reveals itself within ordinary life through direct experience, a reality always already present. My task is to articulate this cosmology, share its coherence, and support those called to uncover it within themselves. It is not a belief system, but an invitation into non-dual presence, open to all regardless of faith or background. What matters most is one’s capacity to trust direct experience.
Transmission here unfolds through presence, language, somatic coherence, and the shared space that becomes available as this luminous order is recognized. Together, we learn to perceive subtle reality through the body, to release what obscures clarity, and to allow the deeper intelligence of the heart-mind to move without distortion. As this occurs, what once felt fragmented naturally reweaves into luminous coherence.
This work meets people at a particular threshold—beyond conceptual seeking and the early arc of trauma healing—into territory where subtle perception, relational integrity, and embodied clarity become primary. Here, awakening shifts from insight to lived alignment: a felt knowing of truth expressed as structural integrity.
Within this cosmology, we refine perception, meet shadow without exile, and inhabit relationship without collapse or fusion. Sovereignty arises within connection, transparency without shame, and depth without overwhelm. What continues to purify does so gently, as an unbinding of what no longer serves, revealing the ease, joy, and distinctiveness inherent in our nature.
While I support coherence and help establish the conditions in which clarity can stabilize and enliven, reality itself remains the teacher. Each person’s next step is revealed through their own direct knowing. I offer direct introduction—to reality, to true nature—and serve as a relational expression of coherence, not as an authority to be idealized or deferred to. What we cultivate here is subtle maturity, shared integrity, and responsibility for one’s own unfolding.
If resonance arises for you, it is not toward me personally, but toward the architecture of your own awakening coming online.
This work points to the luminous order through which realization becomes lived, revealed as the bodymind is unburdened and clarity is allowed to take form through relationship and daily life.
Welcome to this shared recognition.
“Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.” — Tibetan teaching
Lineage & Unfolding
My path opened through mind–body awareness and energy medicine, then naturally revealed itself through direct realization within the Tibetan Buddhist current, particularly Vajrayana, the Dzogchen view, and the blessing stream of Guru Padmasambhava.Beginning in early adulthood, it has unfolded through subtle-body openings, the full ascent and resolution of Kundalini, and a maturing embodiment of reality as it is.
Along the way, I worked closely with several teachers whose mastery helped refine perception, anchor realization in the body, and deepen the lived and ethical dimensions of awakening. In parallel, my academic training includes a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Critical Theory, and a BA focused on Sound, Self, and Embodiment. These studies attuned me to the structures of culture, identity, power, and the lived body.
These two streams, mystical and scholarly, converge here and inform the depth, precision, and structural coherence of the work shared on this site.
“The next Buddha will be a sangha.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Why This Matters Now
Human consciousness stands at a genuine threshold. Awakening no longer unfolds away from the world or from one another, but through relationship itself. Subtle perception, embodied coherence, and relational integrity are becoming essential capacities—not ideals, but functional requirements for meeting life without collapse or defensiveness. They allow us to dissolve scapegoating and codependency, and to inhabit the dignity required for true adulthood.
When coherence is embodied together, the inherent intelligence of reality becomes more readily apparent—responsive, adaptive, and revealing. What emerges is a shift from isolated realization toward shared coherence, where awakening is no longer held privately but lived collectively. This movement is not aspirational; it is a natural continuation of how consciousness matures when structure, relationship, and presence are aligned.
On the Name Darananda
In 2021, I received the spiritual name Ananda. In transmission settings, I use the name Darananda (Dara + Ananda) to mark a subtle shift in function. It signals that what is being expressed is not personal identity, but the architecture of clarity speaking through this bodymind. You will hear this name used in many recordings.
In ordinary life and relationship, I go by Dara. You’re welcome to use either name.
If you have any questions about my path, teachers, or this work, you’re welcome to get in touch.
May clarity awaken every heart that reads these words.
