about the author
Exploring how noetics can contribute to the re-enchantment of our understanding of consciousness, reality, and the living universe.
Hi, I’m Lieze Boshoff.
I believe we are living through a period of profound disenchantment. Many people sense that consciousness, meaning, and reality are richer than conventional materialist explanations allow, yet struggle to find an intellectually coherent framework for understanding that intuition. My work explores how the interdisciplinary field of noetics can help us recover a participatory relationship with a living universe by bringing together insights from consciousness research, metaphysics, and the Western esoteric traditions.
My interest in these questions began with reports of anomalous experience: psi, near-death experiences, out-of-body states, terminal lucidity, time slips, UFOs, and other forms of high strangeness. Rather than treating these as isolated mysteries, I became interested in what they might collectively reveal about consciousness and the nature of reality.
That search gradually led me into the interdisciplinary field of noetics, where questions about consciousness are explored alongside insights from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, and lived experience. It also drew me towards the Western esoteric traditions, whose symbolic and initiatory frameworks preserve sophisticated ways of understanding the relationship between mind, meaning, and reality.
Over time, I began to notice a remarkable convergence. Although science, philosophy, consciousness research, and the Western esoteric traditions speak different languages, many appear to point towards the same possibility: that consciousness is not merely a by-product of the brain, but a fundamental feature of reality itself, and that we participate in the unfolding of the world through perception, attention, meaning, and relationship.
Today, that perspective shapes everything I write. Through books and essays, I seek to contribute to the re-enchantment of our understanding of reality through the interdisciplinary lens of noetics, drawing together consciousness research, metaphysics, and the Western esoteric traditions into a coherent framework for exploring the deeper nature of the world and our place within it.
Academic Background & Research
My perspective is informed by both academic research and practical experience. I hold a B.Psych (Hons) from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and an M.Sc. in Human Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh. I later pursued doctoral research at the University of Groningen, investigating consciousness, anomalous perception, and the relationship between subjective experience and physical reality. My research brought together neuroscience, cognitive science, consciousness studies, and emerging perspectives from modern physics to explore questions at the boundaries of mind and matter.
Alongside my academic training, I also qualified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHt), aromatherapist, reflexologist, and Reiki practitioner. Although these disciplines differ considerably in their methods and assumptions, each deepened my appreciation for the symbolic, experiential, and phenomenological dimensions of human consciousness.
After more than a decade working as both a researcher and lecturer, I moved into the commercial world, running my own business and working in corporate roles before returning to the questions that had fascinated me from the beginning.
Today, I write for readers who suspect that reality is more mysterious, participatory, and meaningful than conventional accounts suggest. My aim is not to promote certainty, but to offer a coherent framework through which consciousness, anomalous experience, metaphysics, and the Western esoteric traditions can be explored together—and, in doing so, to contribute in some small way to the re-enchantment of our relationship with a living universe.
Presentations
2013 – ‘Involuntary versus voluntary attentional orienting: How we attend in space and time’, 55th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2015 – ‘Measuring mind-matter interactions using single-trial EEG classification’, Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
2017 – ‘Synchronicities: More than just coincidence?’, Spirituality in Mental Health, Association for Transpersonal Psychiatry, Naarden, Netherlands
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In my work I explore consciousness, anomalous experience, and high strangeness using modern science, psychology, and esoteric traditions to bring these perspectives into dialogue for better understanding the world we inhabit.
My aim to answer three questions:
- Who are we?
- What kind of world do we inhabit?
- And how can we participate in it more consciously and effectively?