Encontro com
o Absoluto
Encounter with the Absolute
A journey through the boundaries of self, consciousness and the ground of being.
Daniel
Rezinovsky
I explore what happens when our familiar sense of self and world gives way—and what those changes might tell us about reality.
My work moves between psychology, mystical experience, philosophy, writing, art and technology.
Ways into the work
A book, an investigation and an environment. Different forms of a continuing inquiry.
Ontological
Shifts
Ontological Shifts
Spiritual awakening examined across first-person experience, psychology, philosophy and contemplative traditions.
Read the dissertation
Ontik
Six worlds of light, motion and sound, exploring unfamiliar ways of perceiving and inhabiting a space.
Explore the projectWhen the familiar
becomes strange.
Can a change in experience also be a change in what we are able to know?
Mystical experiences can alter the most basic assumptions we carry about ourselves and the world. I’m interested in taking their first-person character seriously, while examining their psychological, philosophical and religious implications.
Writing gives me room to follow an argument, a voice or a life. Art and music work through perception. Immersive environments open another possibility: constructing a space in which experience itself becomes the material.
These approaches overlap, but they also question one another. I want to keep that conversation open.
Ontological shifts and visionary art
Philosophical fiction and human transformation
Encounter, artificial minds and immersive experience
Research & publications
Religious and mystical experience, consciousness, and the possibilities of human transformation.
- 2023
Social Support, Help-Seeking Behaviors, and Positive/Negative Affect Among Individuals Reporting Mediumship Experiences
Maraldi and colleagues, including Daniel Rezinovsky · International Journal of Latin American Religions
- 2022
Ontological Shifts: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of Spiritual Awakening
Daniel Rezinovsky · M.A. dissertation, PUC-SP · Original em português
- 2021
Novas Ontologias, Novos Saberes: Dimensões Filosóficas do Despertar Espiritual
Daniel Rezinovsky · Book chapter in Experiências Espirituais e Prática Clínica
- 2017
Translation and cultural adaptation of the SOCQ and statistical validation of the MEQ30 in Brazilian Portuguese
Eduardo E. Schenberg, Luís F. Tófoli, Daniel Rezinovsky & Dartiu X. da Silveira · Archives of Clinical Psychiatry
A path through
experience.
My early interest in consciousness took me through applied mathematics and neuroscience at UFRJ, then into psychology and clinical practice. Spontaneous nonordinary experiences, meditation and a sustained engagement with contemplative traditions changed the direction of that inquiry.
I am a psychologist with 15 years of clinical experience, the author of Encontro com o Absoluto, and a PhD researcher in Religious Studies at Rice University. My artistic practice includes painting, photography, electronic music and immersive digital environments.
Monkadelic is my studio and experimental practice: a place for art, music and technology to meet.
Education
PhD, Religious Studies — Rice University, in progress since 2024
MA, Religious Studies — PUC-SP, 2022
Bachelor’s degree, Psychology — PUC-PR, 2010
Research support
2020 Templeton prize/grant — Becoming Headless: A Novel Experimental Task for the Study of Mystical Attributions within the Embodied Cognition Paradigm
CAPES research scholarship, 2021
Olhar Desperto
A Portuguese-led archive of reflections, interviews and collaborative work on awakening, philosophy and life. It also holds the earlier MU Series and MU Films.
Visit the channelMonkadelic
Electronic music, immersive worlds and experiments in encounter. Begin with Music for Alien Voyages or step inside Ontik.
Visit the studio