Selene Calloni Williams

Selene M. Calloni Williams

At nineteen she left for the East. She spent six years in the Buddhist forest hermitages and the Oriental Yoga Academy of Colombo, in the Country island of Sri Lanka, cultivating the natural philosophies and methods of the Oriental tradition. Once back in Europe she committed to the study of psychology and Western philosophy, graduating with a final dissertation on Integral Yoga. From sixteen to eighteen she published her works on several poetry journals and revues. At thirty she published her first book on Integral Yoga, followed by several books on Yoga and Schamanism, to her final work “The Myth of the Superman, from Aurobindo to Nietzsche”. Numerous are also articles, papers and translations from English.

In 1993 she launched the project “The Quest of the Natural State”. It is a project aimed at the research and experimentation of philosophies and natural methods of ahistorical, timeless traditions. Following that project, she undertook continued and numerous travels which brought her to be acquainted with yogins, mystics, shamans, monks, hermits, in significant parts of the world. She received the most recent teachings on chakra puja at Guahati, in June 2006.

In the West she has collaborated with true “masters” of thought, from theologian Raimon Panikkar, to philosopher James Hillman, father of archetypical psycology, with whom she collaborated to the making of the book “Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth” published in Switzerland by Holos International.

In 2003 she funded in Switzerland the company “SOCIETA’ DI nonterapia “, today owner of the brands:

an innovative idea and product laboratory for firm formation,

the factory of emotion travels, where travels are created starting from an anthropological and antroposophical interest, aimed at understanding peoples, their cultures, rituals and at feeling their soul.

She is television author and documentarist. Between 2007 and 2008 she carried out the television series “Camminando – On the Walk”, broadcasted on Italian television channel “LA7” in February 2008. She also made documentaries of anthropological nature.

The encounter with Dr. Karan Singh

Discrediting the anxiety of healing and elevation, towards being more amused, creative, relaxed, she defines the simbolic-imaginal method, which is based on ahistoical traditions and natural systems, and publishes in 2008 the electronic book “The Symbolic-Imaginal Method”. In the simbolic-imaginal method the aestethic experience proposes as alternative to the therapeutical experience, where man, as well as the objective aspect of reality, is able to share the imaginal one, in which he can be master of the course of events, as well as of the happenings of his body and his mind.

Selene Calloni Williams lives in Edimburgh, UNESCO capital of literature. From Scotland, quite often, as always, her nomadic spirit continues to bring her around the world, anywhere there are inspirations to be seized.

Selene Calloni and James Hillman	Selene Calloni and Raimon Panikkar	Selene Calloni and James Hillman


Selene Calloni, Purna Yoga International Meeting, New Delhi, 06th June 2006	Selene Calloni and Gothatuwe Sumanaloka Thero	Selene Calloni and Phil Drummy