meditation
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I wasn’t expecting this book to be that good! This book contains a vast array of examples of religious/mystical experiences that would, by themselves, exacerbate any religiosity already present in the reader. These experiences as reported by many saints, ascetics, and all form of renunciates who lived these ecstatic raptures in the flesh, so to…
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Can meditation be dangerous? Somebody asked me whether meditation was dangerous. We can initially laugh at that question, but I must admit that even I had the same doubts before. It does not take a long time to decipher in the question a profound lesson to be learned. Behind this question, we find superstitious thinking,…
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What yoga is not: There’s this tendency in the West to approach yoga and other spiritual practices within the framework of materialistic thinking. By this I mean that there’s a tendency to see yoga as a tool to achieve external results. The West has lost its Christianity, and this event has permitted people to explore…
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This 18-page essay contains my current notions about the human psyche, or the mind. It is based on my independent studies of Western depth-psychology (the psychology of the unconscious), Western philosophy (mainly metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, and ethics!), as well as Eastern philosophies, especially Samkhya-Yoga philosophy. … This body of knowledge, together with my metaphysical understanding…
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I just finished, perhaps, the most consequential book I have read in a very long time, perhaps even more consequential than Aristotle’s Metaphysics in philosophy, the Bhagavad-Gita in religion or Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra in poetry. I’m referring to the Samkhya philosophy coming to us as the Prava Chana Sutra. The world may not know…
Oscar G Najarro 