spirituality
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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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One of the most widely discussed topics in religion is the topic of non-violence, Ahimsa. For someone following the yogic path, as myself, the Yoga sutras themselves are not very specific on what non-violence really consists; therefore, I think it could be useful to clarify this topic from the lenses of psychology. Most of what…
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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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I’m of the idea that all forms of therapy, or even meditation, lead, eventually and quite naturally, to resolving the conflicts experienced in early childhood and inherent in the relation of children to their parents. This type of relationship is not only the first, most important, and most necessary of human relations, but also the…
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From Parmenides and Heraclitus we get that non-existence does not exist, whereas existence is all there is. See the following image: We also learn from them that the world of appearances, the phenomenal world witnessed by the senses (internal and external) is the result of a conflict, combination or even a love affair between opposites.…
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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…
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I’m feeling more comfortable now sharing some of my experiences… well, experiments, if you wish, in regards to the psyche. This recorded experiment occurred on October 22nd of 2022 (so many 2’s lol). It was my first time performing shadow-work, and after some research, I decided upon the following exercise: First, I listed my positive…
Oscar G Najarro 