The meaning of development of consciousness in the kashmir śaivism and transformation of consciousness based on Swami Muktananda's spiritual autobiography

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Transformation Of Consciousness ◽  
Kashmir Śaivism

Numbers Station

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Hollingworth
Keyword(s):  
Word Of God ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Great Danger

We are lured by the sounds of the numbers stations—by the sounds of infinity— away from what men actually saw and touched and out into a voyeuristic thrill. But as we listen in on the numbers as they speak to each other, we ourselves begin to be changed into a hideous likeness to them. Because that, of course, is the great danger of any ‘listening in’. It never takes place neutrally or passively. It is because of this that the Word of God can save men. And it is also because of this that the numbers station of the totality of atomic facts can destroy them. Because listening is never about the content of what is being transmitted; it is about the tuning in. In this chapter, we learn the sense in which the Tractatus was a spiritual autobiography.

scholarly journals The archetypal mandala: Visions of the self in the poetry of Coleridge, Eliot and Breytenbach

Literator ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Deudney
Keyword(s):  
Space Form ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Four Quartets ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
Transformation Of Consciousness ◽  
Quantum Consciousness

This paper is a preliminary survey of the visions of the s e lf in poetry. It is concerned with the transformation of consciousness as depicted by each of the three poets a Romantic, a Modernist and a Postmodernist poet respectively and expressed in specific poems with a cyclical nature. The romantic poet Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is taken as the first example. It is found to be an allegory of the metamorphosis of the poet’s temporal subjective consciousness into an ‘eternal ’ subject position in the narrated text. Eliot’s "Four Quartets" exemplifies the Modernist mode of consciousness as an 'anironic vision of unity' achieved by adhering to a religio-aesthetic meta-narrative. Breytenbach (1988:115) calls his volumes of prison poetry "The Undanced Dance". Taken as a whole "The Undanced Dance" has a structure which concurs with what Brodey (1971:4) calls "an Einsteinian time-space form of relations” and lures its readers into the trap of falling into postmodern quantum consciousness.

scholarly journals The Silk Road Journey in the Marketplace as the Modern Time Pilgrimage

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Dhruba Karki
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Transformation Of Consciousness ◽  
Celestial Sphere ◽  
The Silk Road

The Silk Road journey embodies an individual's revelation, a universal process of transformation of consciousness. At times, people set for pilgrimages to holy sites; other times, they go on trekking through hills and mountains. Pilgrimages to sacred sites have been replaced by people's journey to discotheques, fashion centers and shopping malls in the marketplace in today’s corporate world. What binds them together is the transformation of consciousness along the journey from the terrestrial to the celestial sphere. Specific human, including pilgrimage and business trip become popular when people, ranging from children to adult across cultures make them significant parts of their lives. Sound and images of disco, jazz, hip-hop, and pop-rock have entered the streets and hotels in cities, from Lhasa to London, Shanghai to San Francisco, Karachi to Kathmandu, and Tokyo to New York. In today’s world of saturated media presence, images and icons of heroes and legends, motivated by commercial and popular appeal, are circulated with a greater speed, becoming simultaneously a shared mythic currency and continuity, the modern world embodiment of silk road business, and thus, crossing the East-West divide.

scholarly journals Alternative Ways of Challenging and Resisting in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Writing Strategies ◽  
Richard Rodriguez ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Catholic Faith ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World

Abstract There are several reasons why essayist Richard Rodriguez could be classified as a ‘minority’ writer; namely, his Mexican-American roots, his Catholic faith, and his self- declared homosexuality. However, readers who expect his writings to display the kind of attitudes and features that are common in works by other ‘minority’ authors are bound to be disappointed. The meditations that Rodriguez offers are far from clearly dividing the world between oppressors and oppressed or dominant and subaltern. As he sees it, ethnic, religious, class or sexual categories and divisions present further complications than those immediately apparent to the eye. Does this mean that Rodriguez fails to resist and challenge the dynamics he observes between different social groups? Or that his observations are complaisant rather than subversive? Not necessarily, since his essays are always a tribute to the possibilities of disagreement and defiance. My analysis of his latest collection of essays, Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013), maps out and dissects the writing strategies that Rodriguez employs to generate dialogical forms of inquiry and resistance regarding such up-to-date topics as religious clashes (and commonalities), Gay rights (in relation to other Human Rights) or how public spaces are being re-imagined in this global, digital era.

Augustine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Rational Method ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Epistemic Value ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Epistemology

At the heart of Augustine’s intellectual and spiritual autobiography is a search for wisdom that demands of him sophisticated epistemological reflection. The results—in particular, his identification of the category of rational or justified assent on less-than-certain grounds and his inquiry into the nature and epistemic value of testimony—break dramatic new ground in the history of epistemology. He articulates a concept of belief (as assent to a proposition on the basis of testimony) and distinguishes it from understanding (assent to a proposition on the basis of reasoned insight). Exploiting that distinction, he develops both a rationale for and a detailed account of a systematic method for the rational investigation of theological matters, which he characterizes as belief seeking understanding. Augustine’s famous reflections on the paradox of evil and on the nature of the divine Trinity provide compelling illustrations of his application of this rational method and its results.

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