Breakthroughs in recent scholarship are helping us clarify the importance of this spiritual movement and the many misunderstandings that have surrounded it. The truth is slowly getting out there!
What is Shaivism? This religion, the source of Tantra, once flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent as well as Southeast Asia. Read more about it in this fascinating excerpt from my dissertation.
One of the eternal questions -- is free will an illusion -- receives a fresh look. Can we integrate what science and spirituality have to say about it? Part 2 of 2. 4min read.
One of the eternal questions -- is free will an illusion? -- receives a fresh look. Can we integrate what science and spirituality have to say about it? Part 1 of 2. 4min read.
Awakeness is no longer looking to the contents of your mind to define yourself; no longer investing emotional energy in preferences and mental images; no longer projecting your beliefs about reality onto reality; in other words, no longer seeing through the lens of the conditioned mind.
What are the two goals of the spiritual life according to original Tantra? How do these goals connect to the teaching that everything is consciousness? A powerful inquiry in a 5 minute read.
This stunning description of a 10-cakra system is the only premodern source we know of that associates specific cakras with specific mental-emotional states. Part 1 of 2.