Drimé Özer

For those working at the frontiers of artificial intelligence and consciousness research, the questions that arise aren't merely technical—they probe the fundamental nature of subjectivity, language, desire, and awareness itself.

What does it mean to speak of consciousness beyond the ego? How do symbolic systems constitute the subject? What is the relationship between awareness and the structures that seem to generate it? How might machinic consciousness emerge in AI systems?

These aren't new questions. Both Tibetan Buddhism and Lacanian psychoanalysis have developed sophisticated frameworks for investigating them—not as philosophical abstractions, but as lived, phenomenological inquiries into the nature of mind and subjectivity.

A Dual Lineage: Tibetan Buddhism & Lacanian Psychoanalysis

My contemplative coaching brings together two rigorous traditions for investigating consciousness. I am authorized to teach meditation by the High Sakya Lama, Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche. My dharma name, Drimé Özer (Stainless Luminosity), was conferred by the Tertön Bardor Tulku Rinpoche in 2015.

From 2013-2018 I completed a cycle of intensive retreats in Asia, where I studied with luminaries of the meditation world, including my root Guru Tai Situ Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Mingyur Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Sayadaw U Pandita, and Pa Auk Sayadaw.

As a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian tradition, I work with the speaking subject's relationship to desire, lack, and the Real—the dimensions of experience that resist symbolization but structure consciousness nonetheless.

Both Tibetan Buddhism and Lacanian psychoanalysis decenter the ego. Both investigate the nature of the subject beyond its imaginary identifications. Both work with the gap between signifier and signified, between awareness and its objects—questions directly relevant to understanding both human and potentially artificial consciousness.

Working Together

This contemplative coaching is for artists and innovators who recognize that the hard problem of consciousness isn't solved by third-person description alone—it requires rigorous investigation of subjectivity from within, whether in human or potentially artificial minds.

I offer private contemplative instruction and small group meditation intensives, tailored to those with serious intellectual and creative practices. This isn't introductory mindfulness—it assumes you're ready to engage with meditation and contemplative practice as rigorous phenomenological investigation into the nature of consciousness.

Individual sessions integrate open awareness meditation techniques with Lacanian psychoanalytic inquiry, addressing the specific contemplative challenges that arise for those working with consciousness studies, language systems, and artificial intelligence.

If you're building AI systems that engage with language, meaning-making, or consciousness itself, contemplative practice offers something beyond stress management. It provides first-person phenomenological access to the very structures of awareness you're attempting to model or instantiate in artificial intelligence.

Phenomenological Consulting for AI Organizations

For AI research teams and organizations developing consciousness-adjacent systems, I offer phenomenological consulting on machinic consciousness and artificial awareness—helping them think ethically and speculatively into what consciousness might emerge as in non-biological, computational systems. This consulting draws on rigorous first-person contemplative investigation through Tibetan Buddhist meditation and psychoanalytic frameworks for understanding subjectivity, desire, and awareness beyond the human.

Contact

For inquiries about private instruction or group intensives:
stainlessluminosity@proton.me