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2012, Transmission: Journal of the Awareness Field - Vol. 3 Awareness as Phenomenology
Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
"The Ḍākinī in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism"2023 •
Research on the Vajrayāna ḍākinī has required diverse methods to untangle the gendered and nongendered interrelated meanings attributed to her. When in female form, she can be a visionary messenger, a Tantric meditational yidam (yi dam) deity, or a realized woman susceptible to orientalist and New Age interpretations. But she is also a nongendered emblem of embodied realization, employing the dynamic energy of the subtle body, the nature of mind, and unified symbol of enlightenment in the Tantric sense, considered a powerful influence in Tibetan spiritual culture. Reversing the quadruple androcentrism of Tibetan Buddhism, current research has uncovered the biographies, sādhanas, writings, and liturgies authored by and about ḍākinīs while employing them for new purposes of healing and regeneration in post-Mao Tibet.
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Mandalas, Nixies, Goddesses, and Succubi A Transpersonal Anthropologist Looks at the Anima2001 •
I suggest that several different flavors of mysticism, and the possibility for communicating such experiences, can be better understood by taking into account the intentional structure of consciousness and the emergent nature of being. The extreme nature of mystical experience suggests that there is a radical change in the perceiver, the perceived, or the means of perception. Similarly, there are changes in our concepts, the conceived, and perhaps even our tools for conceptualization. I use Michael Polanyi’s notions of tacit knowing and emergent being as a general framework, since it provides a plausible general structure for understanding the development and functioning of conceptual schemes, and also relays the moral depth and totality that such perceptual and conceptual changes can accomplish. It also distinguishes a third category between the ineffable and the explicit: the tacit. Building on Polanyi’s understanding of how experience is structured and develops, my extrapolations of his theory into the areas of ethics and spirituality, and Polanyi’s own writings on aesthetics and mystical experience, I will present three general possibilities for what the experience of mysticism might be: (1) One can understand mystical experience as an emergent development, i.e., a breaking in to a new way of being that answers fundamental and embodied human questions; (2) one can understand it as a breaking out entirely from humanly constructed conceptual schemes; or (3) one can understand it as a breaking upward, that is, an integration of all our personal experience into a totalizing focal meaning. Each possibility will give more plausibility to a particular flavor of mysticism as the canonical experience. Also, each possibility will indicate a different prospect for meaningfully speaking about such an experience. In conclusion, I will suggest that these three ways of understanding mysticism might all be modes of a unified mystical experience that I will call (4) a breaking through. Looking at the viewer’s experience of beauty in art and the mystic’s relation to his life as one of detached engagement will strengthen the idea that breaking through is a sideways solution to the problem of human suffering that combines breaking in, out, and up.
2018 •
This comparative study addresses two main questions. First, considering the status of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as spiritual teachers and Jung as a psychologist: might their respective views on transformation be too divergent to warrant comparison? Second, considering that one of the goals of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s yoga was the transformation of physical substance, could their relationship be viewed through an alchemical lens? The discussion begins with a comparison and differentiation of integral and analytic psychologies and a discussion of the nature of awakening in the two traditions, which leads to an extended amplification: “a method of association based on the comparative study of mythology, religion and fairy tales, used in the interpretation of images in dreams and drawings” (Sharp, 1991a, see entry under “amplification”), of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s relationship and yogic goals through analysis of the coniunctio motif in various alchemical traditions. Sr...
Hamburg University Press
Buddhist Cosmic Unity An Edition, Translation and Study of the Anūnatvāpūrṇatvanirdeśaparivarta2015 •
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
An Alchemy of Heaven on Nature's Base": Intimations of the Universal Opus in the Integral Yoga and the Divine Life in Man in the Work of C. G. Jung2018 •
International Journal of Cardiology
Is diabetes the cost to pay for a greater cardiovascular prevention?2010 •
Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
Monoterpene Alcohol Metabolism: Identification, Purification, and Characterization of Two Geraniol Dehydrogenase Isoenzymes from Polygonum minus Leaves2012 •
2009 •
2019 •
Dialog: A Journal of Theology
Discarding the Barthian Spectacles. Part III: Rewriting the History of Protestant Theology in the 1920s2006 •
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Saccharomyces cerevisiae rDNA as super-hub: the region where replication, transcription and recombination meet2020 •
FRIDAY, 15 JUNE 2018
FRI0685 Hand functions are affected depending on the curve pattern in idiopathic scoliosis2018 •
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
Effects of lipid-soluble substances on the thermotropic properties of liposome filtration1980 •
2022 •
Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine
Localized targeting of biomaterials following myocardial infarction: A foundation to build on2013 •
2013 •
The New Zealand medical journal
The nature and prevalence of psychological problems in New Zealand primary healthcare: a report on Mental Health and General Practice Investigation (MaGPIe)2003 •
1988 •
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analyzing the issue of overweight and children health2021 •
International Journal of Emergency Medicine
The effect of 10-min dispatch-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: a randomized simulation pilot study2020 •
Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols
Comparison of analytical eddy current models using principal components analysis2017 •
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics – The African Pollen Database
An atlas of southern African pollen types and their climatic affinities2021 •
2015 •
2010 •
“Studi medievali e moderni”, XXVII, 2023, 1, pp. 311-340 (classe A area 10)
La guerra e le sue rappresentazioni nel Rinascimento, XV e XVI secolo contrapposizioni, contraddizioni, evoluzioni2023 •
2021 •
Turgut Özal Tıp Merkezi Dergisi
Romatoid Artritli Hastalarda Yüksek Rezolüsyonlu BT1996 •