chazon.eu
Glossary
This page explains the terms used on chazon.eu in plain language. Every entry has a short and a longer explanation — no prior knowledge needed.
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Chai
Hebrew חי, “alive”The figure at the threshold — it greets you on the home page.
Chai is the floating figure with the teal spark above its hand. It stands for the moment before entering: curious, open, without a plan yet. Its name is the Hebrew word for “alive”.
Related: Ori
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Chazon
Hebrew חזון, “vision”The third pillar and namesake of the site: a vision for living together better.
Chazon means vision in the sense of far-sightedness: a picture of how things could be. As the third pillar it asks what society could look like beyond the old political camps — with individual freedom and collective wellbeing as two sides of the same coin.
Related: Merkaba Shalem Pillar Visit page →
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Co-regulation
Nervous systems calm each other — calm is contagious.
People regulate their inner state not only alone but together: a calm voice, a settled person in the room, breathing together — all of this can soothe an agitated nervous system. Co-regulation is the foundation on which children learn self-regulation in the first place.
Related: Polyvagal theory Window of tolerance Resonance
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Codex
Your personal manuscript: pages that grow out of your reading on chazon.eu.
Historically, a codex is a handwritten, often ornamented book. On chazon.eu the Codex is your personal collection: as you read, individual leaves — folios — come into being and form your own illuminated manuscript. Everything stays local in your browser.
Related: Folio Visit page →
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Colophon
Greek kolophon, “summit, finishing stroke”The page explaining how chazon.eu is made — tools, typefaces, origins.
A colophon is the closing note of a book: who set it, in which typefaces, in what edition. The colophon of chazon.eu (linked in the footer) does the same for this website — including the question of where artificial intelligence helped.
Related: Marginalia
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Elements
The module that reads the 118 chemical elements as a map of the living.
Elements takes the periodic table of chemistry and tells a page for each of the 118 substances: scientific facts plus a symbolic reading. The elements are sorted into five families, called life forces here.
Related: Life forces Energies Visit page →
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Energies
The module with twenty phases of inner development — a spiral, not a ladder.
Energies describes twenty phases of inner experience, from values through body awareness to deep integration. They are grouped into four spheres and imagined as a spiral: you don't climb them once from bottom to top, you return to them on new levels.
Related: Sphere Spiral Elements Visit page →
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Folio
Latin folium, “leaf”A single leaf in the Codex.
In old manuscripts a folio is one leaf of parchment or paper. In the Codex of chazon.eu a folio is a single designed page born from your reading — text and image, a keepsake of a thought.
Related: Codex
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Gate
A thematic entrance into the site — such as Enlightenment, Money System or Eye Level.
The gates are long-form essays, one theme each: Enlightenment (how power and fiction work), Money System (how debt became money) and Eye Level (the feminine and the masculine as equals). You can enter through any gate — they all lead into the same cosmos.
Related: Pillar Red thread
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Life forces
The five families in the Elements module: fire, water, air, earth and source.
Instead of the usual chemical groups, Elements sorts the 118 substances into five families: fire (activating), water (connecting), air (mobile), earth (carrying) and source (the primordial). This is a symbolic order inspired by old doctrines of the elements — the scientific data stands right next to it.
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Marginalia
Latin margo, “edge”A note in the margin next to the main text.
In old books, marginalia sit at the edge of the page: comments, cross-references, small drawings. chazon.eu adopts this form — short notes beside the text that deepen or contextualise without interrupting the reading flow.
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Merkaba
Hebrew מרכבה, “chariot of the throne”The first of the three pillars: consciousness — how thinking, feeling and the body work together.
In Jewish mysticism, Merkaba is the divine chariot from the prophet Ezekiel's vision. On chazon.eu the word names the pillar of consciousness: the joining of light, body and mind. In practice it means not playing opposites like doing and being, or thinking and feeling, against each other — but bringing them together.
Related: Shalem Chazon Pillar Visit page →
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Mirror
The module with exercises and texts on how outside and inside connect.
The Mirror collects short exercises, shadow aspects and bridging texts. The core idea: what meets us on the outside often says something about our inside — “as above, so below”. The exercises are meant as invitations, not as therapy.
Related: Shadow Energies Visit page →
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Ori
Hebrew אורי, “my light”The AI companion of the site — the glowing orb in the corner.
Ori is a chat companion powered by artificial intelligence. It knows the contents of the site, answers questions and suggests next steps. Important: Ori is an educational offering and does not replace therapy or medical advice.
Related: Persona
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Persona
Latin persona, “mask, role”A narrating voice that guides through a module — such as Mira, Mendeleev or the Seer.
Different areas of the site speak with different voices: Mira reads the audiobook, Mendeleev guides through Elements, the Seer through Energies, the Shadow through the Mirror. These personas are deliberately crafted roles — they make audible from which stance a text speaks.
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Pillar
One of the three foundations of the site: Merkaba (consciousness), Shalem (wholeness), Chazon (vision).
Everything on chazon.eu rests on three pillars: Merkaba for individual consciousness, Shalem for inner wholeness and Chazon for the vision of society. Each pillar has its own page that reads like a book chapter.
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Polyvagal theory
after Stephen PorgesA model of how our nervous system shifts between safety, alarm and shutdown.
Polyvagal theory describes three basic states of the autonomic nervous system: social safety (connected, at ease), mobilisation (fight or flight) and immobilisation (freeze). Parts of it are scientifically contested, but as a map of bodily states it is widely used — and that is how it is used here: as orientation, not as dogma.
Related: Window of tolerance Co-regulation
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Red thread
The reading flow of the site: at the end of each station you glide into the next.
The major pages of chazon.eu are joined into a ring. If you keep reading at the end of a page, you glide into the next station — until the circle closes after one full revolution. You can step off at any time; the red thread is an offer, not an obligation.
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Resonance
Latin resonare, “to resound”Vibrating along: when something outside sets something inside you ringing.
In physics, a body vibrates along when a frequency matches it. Transferred, resonance names the moment when a text, a person or a place truly reaches you — instead of bouncing off. On chazon.eu resonance is a guiding motif: keep reading what rings in you.
Related: Co-regulation Mirror
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Shadow
Psychological term for the parts of ourselves we prefer not to see.
The term goes back to the psychiatrist C. G. Jung: the shadow holds traits we push away because they don't fit our self-image. In the Mirror module, shadow aspects appear as texts that invite you to look exactly there — kindly and without pressure.
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Shalem
Hebrew שלם, “whole, complete”The second pillar: wholeness — inner balance between active and receptive forces.
Shalem is related to the word shalom (peace) and means intactness. Here it names the pillar of wholeness: a model of inner balance working with the four life forces fire, water, air and earth. Research and tradition stand side by side in the open — the site marks what comes from where.
Related: Merkaba Chazon Life forces Visit page →
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Sigil
Latin sigillum, “small sign, seal”A self-made sign that condenses an intention into an image.
A sigil is a graphic sign in which a thought or resolution is condensed — much like a monogram grows out of letters. On chazon.eu you can shape your own sigils in a small workshop. It is meant as a creative exercise: an image for what matters to you.
Related: Codex
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Sphere
Greek sphaira, “ball”One of the four groups the twenty phases of Energies are sorted into.
The twenty phases in Energies are bundled into four spheres: Values & Stages, Body & Field, Mind & Patterns, and Depth & Integration. Each sphere gathers phases that belong to a similar region of inner experience.
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Spiral
The image of development on chazon.eu: you return to themes, but on a new level.
Many models describe development as a staircase: step by step upwards. The spiral is the counter-image — the same life themes come around again, but you meet them each time with more experience. Not falling back, but a new revolution.
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The Clearing
A walkable world in the nocturnal Black Forest — the playful module of the site.
The Clearing is an exploration module of its own: a drawn forest world you move through, scanning and awakening things. It translates the contents of the site into a place you can walk instead of read.
Related: Red thread
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Window of tolerance
coined by Dan SiegelThe range in which your nervous system can process strain well.
The window of tolerance describes the state in which we are alert and capable of acting — neither hyper-aroused (fight, flight, panic) nor hypo-aroused (freeze, numbness). Practices like calm breathing help to find the way back into the window, or to widen it over time.
Related: Polyvagal theory Co-regulation
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Wu Xing
Chinese 五行, “five phases of change”The classical Chinese doctrine of five phases of change: wood, fire, earth, metal, water.
Wu Xing describes five qualities that nourish and constrain each other — a cycle model used in Chinese medicine and philosophy for centuries. Elements places it next to its own five life forces as a comparison: a kindred idea from another culture.
Related: Life forces Elements
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