Papa Purusha is an archetypal visualisation made use of in the practice of Tattwa Shuddhi, or the Inner Purification of the Elements. The practice evolved from writings in the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam and the Mahanirvana Tantra. This practice is es
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Read more…Right at the time of his birth Kali carried an Upaasthi (a small bone) and his entire body complexion was sooty and dark. This huge-being, with a terrible tongue and an obnoxious smell about his entire physique, chose gambling, liquor, woman (prost
Carl Jung gave a series of lectures in 1932 where he explored the
symbolism of the Chakra system of Kundalini Yoga, and compared it to
stages of psychological/spiritual development. I think the parallels are
very compelling, and consistent with advai
In divine union of the deities!
In other places, briefly, I have mentioned this concept, and it is something that returns to me fairly regularly. I have not ''worked out'' any theory on it, and perhaps do not even fully understand what it means. Nevertheless there is sometimes a
Read more…''This means that you take full responsibility for your life and never forfeit it over to someone else. There is no such thing as riding the coattails of an enlightened being to enlightenment itself. A failure to understand this can lead to cultish f
Read more…From the Rig Veda (approx 3000 years old)
"The long-haired one endures fire,
the long-haired one endures poison,
the long-haired one endures both worlds.
The long-haired one is said to gaze full on heaven,
the long-haired one is said to be that li
Read more…An acquaintance recently pointed out that not all Vedic scholars agree that we are in the Kali Yuga, and that perhaps reference to the Kali Yuga is used too often by any of us folk to disguise plain old misanthropy, or on a wider scale as a recruitin
Read more…Liberation means to live freely in the beauty of your absence.~ Jean Klein
In your daily life you may experience moments of absolute silence in which there is nothing to do, nothing to avoid, nothing to achieve. In these moments, you're completely
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So, how can an individual realize that they are the universal self? In what way can a person who is under the impression that they are a separate individual enclosed in a bag of skin effectively r
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6 minute film on the fire keepers at the burning ghats in Varanasi.
Read more…Swara Yoga ~ Tantric Science of Brain Breathing.
Swara Yoga is the study of the breath in great detail and of the pranic rhythms in the body. It is related to the Tattwas (elements within body and space), Nadis (channels carrying energy withi
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