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Author : Pierre Arnold Bernard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Vedas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110090672
Author : Stefanie Syman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781429933070
In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga's transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar American industry. Yoga's history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in Emerson's New England, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was fashionable among the leisure class. And yet when Americans first learned about yoga, what they learned was that it was a dangerous, alien practice that would corrupt body and soul. A century later, you can find yoga in gyms, malls, and even hospitals, and the arrival of a yoga studio in a neighborhood is a signal of cosmopolitanism. How did it happen? It did so, Stefanie Syman explains, through a succession of charismatic yoga teachers, who risked charges of charlatanism as they promoted yoga in America, and through generations of yoga students, who were deemed unbalanced or even insane for their efforts. The Subtle Body tells the stories of these people, including Henry David Thoreau, Pierre A. Bernard, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Christopher Isherwood, Sally Kempton, and Indra Devi. From New England, the book moves to New York City and its new suburbs between the wars, to colonial India, to postwar Los Angeles, to Haight-Ashbury in its heyday, and back to New York City post-9/11. In vivid chapters, it takes in celebrities from Gloria Swanson and George Harrison to Christy Turlington and Madonna. And it offers a fresh view of American society, showing how a seemingly arcane and foreign practice is as deeply rooted here as baseball or ballet. This epic account of yoga's rise is absorbing and often inspiring—a major contribution to our understanding of our society.
Author : Arthur Avalon
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
Page : 951 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783985941728
There is no word of wider content in any language than this Sanskrit term meaning 'Power'. For Shakti in the highest causal sense is God as Mother, and in another sense it is the universe which issues from Her Womb. And what is there which is neither one nor the other? Therefore, the Yoginihridaya Tantra thus salutes Her who conceives, bears, produces and thereafter nourishes all worlds: "Obeisance be to Her who is pure Being-Consciousness-Bliss, as Power, who exists in the form of Time and Space and all that is therein, and who is the radiant Illuminatrix in all beings."It is therefore possible only to outline here in a very general way a few of the more important principles of the Shakti-doctrine, omitting its deeply interesting practice (Sadhana) in its forms as ritual worship and Yoga.Today Western science speaks of Energy as the physical ultimate of all forms of Matter. So has it been for ages to the Shaktas, as the worshippers of Shakti are called. But they add that such Energy is only a limited manifestation (as Mind and Matter) of the almighty infinite Supreme Power (Maha-Shakti) of Becoming in 'That' (Tat), which is unitary Being (Sat) itself.
Author : Arthur Avalon (John Woodroffe)
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Shakti and Shakta by Arthur Avalon (John Woodroffe) is a profound exploration of Hindu philosophy and spirituality. The book delves deep into the concept of Shakti, the divine feminine energy, and its relationship with Shakta, the worshipper. With its profound insights and in-depth exploration of Hindu philosophy, Shakti and Shakta is a valuable resource for those interested in spirituality and Eastern philosophy. Dive into the wisdom of Shakti and Shakta and deepen your understanding of Hindu spirituality. It's a book that enlightens and inspires. So why read Shakti and Shakta? Because it provides a deep and insightful exploration of Hindu philosophy and spirituality. Order your copy today.
Author : Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bijas
ISBN : 8120806913
The brochur touches upon all the principal precepts of Tantra, especially the esotric practices. an account of the Sakta pithas has also been given in the background of the ethnological divisions of India. New light has been thrown on the origin of bija, mantra and gayatrt occurring in Tantric works. The study may be regarded as a new one, since scientific discussion of Tantricism has not yet progressed so far satisfactorily, especially from the point of view of the Tantrics themselves.
Author : Gopi Krishna
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834824713
The complete autobiography of a kundalini master and one of the most influential texts on spiritual awakening—now expanded with new material This classic first-person account of spiritual awakening was first published under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man—here expanded with two-thirds new material drawn from the author's writing to make a complete autobiography. Gopi Krishna was an ordinary Indian householder who, at the age of thirty-four, after years of unsupervised meditation, suddenly experienced the awakening of kundalini during his morning practice. The story of this transformative experience, and the author's struggle to find balance amid a variety of powerful physiological and psychic side effects, forms the core of the book. His detailed descriptions of his dramatic inner experiences and symptoms such as mood swings, eating disorders, and agonizing sensations of heat—and of how, with the help of his wife, he finally stabilized at a higher level of consciousness—make this one of the most valuable classics of spiritual awakening available.
Author : Pandit Gopi Krishna
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9788122206456
"What happened to me that early morning during the Christmas of 1937 changed the course of my life and outlook. I sat in a small room in a house on the outskirts of Jammu. I was meditating. Practice had accustomed me to sit in the same posture for hours without discomfort, and as I sat breathing slowly and rhythmically, my attention was drawn towards the crown of my head, contemplating an imaginary lotus in full bloom, radiating light. I sat unmoving and erect. My whole being was so engrossed in the contemplation of the lotus that for several minutes I lost touch with my body and surroundings. The only objet of which I was aware was a lotus of brilliant colour, emitting rays of light. During a spell of intense concentration I suddenly felt a strange sensation below the base of the spine, at the place touching the seat, while I sat cross-legged on a folded blanket spread on the floor. The sensation was so extraordinary and pleasing that my attention was forcibly drawn towards it. My heart beat wildly, and I found it difficult to bring my attention to the required degree of fixity. The sensation extended upwards, growing in intensity. Then, suddenly, with a roar like that of a waterfall, I felt a stream of liquid light entering my brain through the spinal cord. What had happened to me? Was I hallucinating? Or had I by some strange fate succeeded in experiencing the Transcendental? I had read glowing accounts, written by learned men, of great benefits resulting from concentration and of the miraculous powers acquired by yogis through meditation. Was there, after all, really some truth in the repeated claims of the sages and ascetics of India, made for thousands of years that it was possible to apprehend reality in this life if one practised meditation in a certain way? Little did I realize that from that day onwards I was never to be my old normal self again. I had unwittingly and without adequate knowledge, roused to activity the most powerful power in man. I had stepped unknowingly upon the key to the most guarded secret of the ancients, and thenceforth for a long time, I had to live suspended by a thread, swinging between life and death, between sanity and insanity, between lights and darkness, between heaven and earth." An extraordinary autobiographical account of what happens in the mind and body when Kundalini gets spontaneously aroused... one of the clearest journals documenting spiritual transformation and mental evolution onto a higher plane of consciousness.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1913-07
Category : American literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119877849
Author : Diego Pignatelli Spinazzola
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781450232142
Using a creative and poetic modality, Diego Pignatelli explores myth, religion, science and spiritualitythe liminal territories of modern psychology. He introduces us toTranspersonal Psychology, Grofs holotropic paradigm and perinatal dynamics, mythology, oriental and Indian psychology, as well as Jungian, and depth psychology. Pignatelli also discusses the fields of parapsychology, shamanism, thanatology, Near Death Experiences (NDE), Out of Body Experiences (OBEs - astral travels occur during non-ordinary states of consciousness and travels to parallel universes through the Star Gates or portals of other mythological dimensions). He also teaches us about Kundalini awakening, mandala cosmology, altered/nonordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), psychedelic therapy and the implications of the new emerging paradigm whose holonomic theory and multidimensional psyche are currently explored by modern consciousness research.
Author : Translated by Arthur Avalon
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465537140
Author : Paul G. Hackett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231158879
Theos Bernard, the White Lama recounts the real story behind the purported adventures of Theos Casimir Bernard (1908--1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama" who in 1937 became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. Bernard met, associated, and corresponded with the major social, political, and cultural leaders of his day, from the Regent and high politicians of Tibet to saints, scholars, and diplomats of British India, and from Charles Lindbergh and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Gandhi and Nehru. But he also had his flaws. He was an entrepreneur propelled by grandiose schemes, a handsome man who shamelessly used his looks to bounce from rich wife to rich wife to support his activities, and a master manipulator who concocted his own interpretations of Eastern wisdom to suit his own ends. Despite the bright future ahead of him, Bernard disappeared in India during the communal violence of the 1947 Partition, never to be seen again. Through diaries, interviews, and previously unstudied documents, Paul G. Hackett shares Bernard's compelling life story, along with his efforts to awaken America's religious counterculture to the unfolding events in India, Tibet, and the Himalayas.
Author : Paul G. Hackett
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498552301
The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images are often readily abandoned or caricatured beyond recognition, or so it would seem. The essays contained in The Assimilation of Yogic Religions through Pop Culture explore the references to yogis and their native cultures of India, Tibet, and China as they are found in the stories of many famous icons of popular culture, from Batman, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange to Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and others. In doing so, the authors challenge the reader to look deeper into the seemingly superficial appropriation of the image of the yogi and Asian religious themes found in all manner of comic books, novels, television, movies, and theater and to carefully examine how they are being represented and what exactly is being said.
Author : Kristen C. Blinne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781498584388
Pop Culture Yoga: A Communication Remix was born out of a series of questions about the paradoxical nature of yoga: How do individuals and groups define yoga? What does it mean to “practice yoga,” and what does this practice involve? What are some of the most important principles, guidelines, or philosophical tenets of yoga that shape people’s definitions and practices? Who has the power and authority to define yoga? What are the limits, if any, of shared definitions of yoga? Kristen C. Blinne explores the myriad ways “yoga” is communicatively constructed and defined in and through popular culture in the United States. In doing so, Blinne offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, illuminating how individuals’ and groups’ words and actions represent practices of claiming—part of a complex communicative process centered around membership categorization—based on a range of authenticity discourses. Employing popular culture writing styles, Blinne ultimately contends that the majority of yoga styles practiced in the United States are remixes that can be classified as pop culture yoga, a distinct way of understanding this complex phenomenon.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : EAN:4066338128782
Written as a dialogue between the god Shiva and goddess Shaki, Mahanirvana Tantra describes the chakras ("disk" or "wheel", refering to the energy centers in our body), ceremonies, yogic practices and mantras for meditation, as well as a summary of the Hindu laws (dharma) regarding sexual behavior._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Questions relating to the Liberation of Beings_x000D_ Introduction to the Worship of Brahman_x000D_ Description of the Worship of the Supreme Brahman_x000D_ Introduction of the Worship of the Supreme Prakriti_x000D_ The Formation of the Mantras, Placing of the Jar, and Purification of the Elements of Worship_x000D_ Placing of the Shri-patra, Homa, Formation of the Chakra, and other Rites_x000D_ Hymn of Praise (Stotra), Amulet (Kavacha), and the description of the Kula-tattva_x000D_ The Dharmma and Customs of the Castes and Ashramas_x000D_ The Ten Kinds of Purificatory Rites (Sangskara)_x000D_ Rites relating to Vriddhi Shraddha, Funeral Rites, and Purnabhisheka_x000D_ The Account of Expiatory Rites_x000D_ An Account of the Eternal and Immutable Dharmma_x000D_ Installation of the Devata_x000D_ The Consecration of Shiva-linga and Description of the Four Classes of Avadhutas
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B2989478
