Abstract
This chapter has two main functions: first to tell a little bit about my journey as an academic and how it is crossed by the curious search for knowledge and self-knowledge; and second, to provide a brief overview of my current research on the notion of desire for omnipresence through the crossing between the practices of mediation and meditation. With the goal of understanding the current forms of affective embodiment, and therefore, expansion of what is understood as a body, my research focuses on questioning the limits of our technological progress and brings visibility to the emergence of "bodies of light" as a contemporary phenomenon increasingly intertwined with the technical unconscious and affections of smart devices and social media.