Prairie Mind

Frank Lloyd Wright: Architectural Neuro-Buddhism, Akashic Liberation of Space & Usonian Architecture of Self

By: Pavel G. Somov

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Architecture was the language of Frank Lloyd Wright’s dharma of healing. Through space, light, proportion, and flow, Wright articulated a radical vision of psychological sovereignty—one as panoramic as his wall-to-wall windows.

This book translates Wright’s architectural language into the language of non-dual psychology. Drawing correspondences between Wright’s designs and the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen, the Vedic Akashic understanding of space, and Gurdjieff-style pattern interruption, it explores architecture not as shelter or style, but as a method of inner instruction.

Written as a value-added companion for both lifelong admirers of Frank Lloyd Wright and newcomers to his world of conscious architecture, the book advances a twofold mandate. First, it introduces Wright as an original psychological reformer whose medium of teaching was space itself. Second, it invites readers to reconsider the self not as a fixed entity, but as a field—an interior architecture continually under construction.

Blending architectural insight, contemplative psychology, and philosophical reflection, the book proposes that how we inhabit space mirrors how we inhabit ourselves—and that redesigning one may quietly transform the other.

Excerpt

“We have to redesign our sense of self—our field of being—to leave the dualistic caves that imprison and box us in. We must move toward a more organic, less divided architecture of mind.”

About the Author

Pavel Somov, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, international speaker, and author specializing in mindfulness-based self-help and contemplative psychology. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Mindfulness Project (London, UK) and is the author of Neural We, Eating the Moment, The Lotus Effect, Present Perfect, Reinventing the Meal, and The 6th Battle of Acedia. His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Russian, Estonian, Vietnamese, and Portuguese.

Born in the Soviet Union, Somov immigrated to the United States following his service in the Soviet military. He lives and practices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.