Pneumalith: Algorithmic devotion in the flow of chronos

Your ticket:
“Leave all questions outside – here you enter a room that belongs only to your soul.”

These Haiku are veils between worlds:
17 syllables, woven from silence and stardust.
They do not build bridges – they dissolve them.
Do not read them with eyes that count,
but with those that sense.
For here, the breath of eternity
is captured in the ink of the moment.

“Pneumalith is not a project about spirituality – it is spirituality in action.”
A daily practice of recognizing the divine in the everyday, interwoven with the humility that creativity is never entirely ‘ours.’

This ongoing conceptual poetry project transforms the mundane into sacred topographies. Each day is encoded through a traditional Japanese Haiku – a poetic form that, in its strict structure of 5-7-5 syllables, embodies both simplicity and depth. Rooted in the meditative practices of Zen Buddhism, Haiku invites us to capture the essence of the present moment in its transcendent fullness.

Spiritual Connections:
Through the fusion of nature observation and contemplative silence, these Haiku open a space for spiritual reflection. They draw not only on Buddhist concepts such as impermanence (*Mono no aware*) and emptiness (*Mu*), but also explore analogies to Christian mysticism: union with the divine (*unio mystica*), listening for God’s “silent voice,” and perceiving the sacred in the ordinary.

“The Divine Breath in the Moment”:
The Haiku in this project are more than words – they are contemplative miniatures inviting readers to perceive the invisible within the visible. Much like Christian mysticism, they celebrate paradox: silence becomes sound; emptiness becomes fullness; the fleeting becomes eternal.

The three thematic axes of this project are:

1. Duality as Sacred Geometry:
The Haiku weave opposites (joy/sorrow, light/shadow) into a mandala of wholeness – inspired by both Zen Buddhist and Christian mystical thought.

2. A Temple of the Moment:
Each Haiku builds an ephemeral temple of syllables – a monument to the unassuming essence of being and an invitation to contemplative perception.

3. The Divine Presence in Life’s Flow:
In the spirit of Zen and Christian mysticism, the mundane becomes a resonance chamber for the sacred – whether in the chirping of a cicada or in the whispering wind.

The texts oscillate between concrete nature poetry and abstract mysticism, always anchored in the tradition of unadorned observation. The absence of rhyme and titles creates a meditative emptiness, inviting readers to draw their own lines between what lies beyond – like a prayer without words or a koan without resolution.