Awakening in the Clear Light
Writing at the intersection of trauma, neurobiology, and narrative.
Reclaiming the self through science and spirit.
Writing as Clara Noor, I’m honored to welcome your presence here.
This is a space where I desire to freely impart the clarity I have found after spending my life in the dark.
My journey began as no more than an earnest desire to share my reclaimed voice with the world through essay and idea. It has rapidly transformed into an awakened way of life.
“There’s a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of the excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!”
This has become an ever-unfolding, ongoing revelation of an exploration of my own existential truth. I have uncovered a convergent becoming of when the space where ego falls away and true self emerges meets a sacred spiritual alignment.
The continual path of emergence is made possible through reliance on equal parts reason and spirit.
Contrary to common belief, the two are not inherently opposed. Rather, they are designed to integrate inviolably to allow human beings to achieve true self-actualization and awakening.
I am merely a seer, a seeker. I do not purport to be a guru, a master, or divine.
I am not a content creator. There is nothing for sale here. Nothing to sign up for. No tactics, no pretense.
I ask only two things:
(1) stay a while, peruse as you wish, with an open, curious heart; and,
(2) whatever this site stirs — resonance, disconcertment, derision, or nothing at all — engage, with critical thought.
The imperative nature of discourse grounded in dialectical scrutiny dates back to Socrates before 400 BCE. This idea has prevailed from Descartes, through Kant, to Heidegger, all who highlight the ties of critical thought to power, liberation, and self-creation.
Yet the post-WWII realization of Hannah Arendt drew attention to the grave danger of thoughtlessness. Her term, “the banality of evil,” in reference to Adolf Eichman, referred to him as not being a monster, but “terrifyingly normal;” his heinous crimes not due to an abhorrent, warped mindset as we might think, rather, “a curious, quite authentic inability to think.”
The absence of thought makes us complicit actors in systems that perpetuate harm.
The true intent of this website is to challenge the guise of “normality;” to banish shallow, unthinking passivity; to challenge the principles we’ve inherited blindly. Behavioral science would later call these “cognitive biases” or “heuristics.” The sysematic error in thought remains the same.
So, I urge you:
Whether it may look like commenting and discussing within these pages, sharing with others on social media, or discussing an idea over dinner with another – engage, think, reflect, with your own individual scrutiny.
Elevate You“You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!” Wellbeing
- Rumi