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Tantric Wisdom
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The Tantric Tradition known as ‘Kashmir Shaivism’ bore within it the understanding that God is not a being ‘with’ awareness. Instead God is awareness, pure and unbounded. This pure awareness is like a stainless mirror - invisible in itself - in which all experienced realities are not only reflected but actively and continuously manifested. The New Yoga of Awareness is not merely a commentary on or an explanation of this tradition, but the most comprehensive and original contribution to it since its synthesis by the great 10th century teacher and tantric adept Abhinavagupta. It unites religion, science, philosophy and theology, psychology and metaphysics in a way that truly makes it not just ‘a’ new yoga but THE New Yoga - an entirely new school of ‘tantra’ evolved from and for today’s world. Tantra does not separate religion and science. It is yogic religious science. The aim of The New Yoga is to make this new and highly practical religious science known to the world in order that it can begin to work for it. It does so by challenging the foundations of both Western science and the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), along with the “monotheism of money” (Marx) and the godless ‘science’ that is its religion. Peter Wilberg’s wide-ranging writings on tantra, introduced in this book, constitute a new and highly practical body of theosophical and religious scientific knowledge of the sort that alone can help bring an end to today’s rising ocean of religious and scientific ignorance – and to the ecological devastation, economic inequalities and global mayhem that go with it. Above all, they offer a way of accomplishing this world-transforming aim - not through jihad, violence or war but through learning to experience that pure and Divine Awareness (‘Shiva’) which pervades all things, and the Divine Power (‘Shakti’) of Awareness that manifests them all. |
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The Awareness Principle 2nd edition: New Yoga
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If people get ‘lost’ in thought or in their emotions, in their work or chores – or in any element of their everyday activity and experience - then they may be ‘conscious’ but they are not aware. Awareness of the different elements of our conscious action and experience frees us from restricting attachments to them – from a confining identification of ourselves with anything we think, feel or do. This ‘Awareness Principle’ is both a liberatory life principle and a life practice of a sort long recognised in yogic philosophy. As well as being a healing and freeing life principle and practice, The Awareness Principle is also a new foundational principle for the sciences and religion - offering the sole possible philosophical basis for both a new Theology and a truly scientific ‘Theory of Everything’. For the most fundamental scientific fact is not the objective existence of a manifest universe of bodies in space and time but awareness of that universe. In contrast to all current pseudo-scientific attempts to explain awareness or ‘consciousness’ however, The Awareness Principle is the recognition that awareness cannot - in principle - be explained by or reduced to any thing whatsoever that we are aware of, whether it be matter, energy or the human body and brain. Awareness is neither a by-product of our bodies and brains nor the private property of any being or beings - human or divine. What we call ‘God’ is neither ‘Being’ with a big ‘B’ nor some Supreme Being ‘with’ awareness. Instead God is awareness - and the entire universe its manifestation. And just as there can be nothing outside space or before time so there can be nothing outside or before the absolute and divine Awareness that is ‘God’. Neither the Big Bang of physics, the Big Being of philosophy nor a Supreme Being of the sort worshipped in the Abrahamic faiths - all expressions of ‘The Being Principle’ - can explain the fundamental nature of God and the Universe. The Awareness Principle can, based as it is on the recognition that: “The being of all things that exist in awareness in turn depends on awareness.” (Abhinavagupta) Peter Wilberg’s writings on ‘The Awareness Principle’, collected for the first time in this volume, reaffirm and rearticulate in a new and clear cut way a centuries-old understanding of Indian tantric philosophy – namely that the ‘1st Principle’ of the universe is not matter or energy but the innate potentials and power (Shakti) of pure awareness (Shiva). |
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The
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Tantra Reborn
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SYNOPSIS What body is it with which you feel inwardly ‘closer’ or more ‘distant’ to others, inwardly ‘warmer’ or ‘cooler’ towards, and in more or less intimate ‘contact’ with then - yet quite independently of physical touch and skin contact? It is your body of sensual, feeling awareness or ‘soul’ – your divine and immortal ‘soul body’. ‘The New Yoga’ is not a yoga of the physical body or some ‘energy body’ but of your soul body – one that ultimately embraces the entire universe and that can merge with the awareness or ‘soul’ of every other body within it. The New Yoga is also ‘tantra’ reborn - giving rebirth to the tantric tradition through a wholly new understanding of its sexual symbolism and of ‘tantric sex’ – experienced not just as a sensual or spiritual intensification of physical intercourse but as a sublimely sensual and divinely sexual intercourse of the soul and its body – one requiring no skin contact at all. ‘Tantra Reborn’ explains in detail the nature and anatomy of the soul body - as well as offering a practical guide to experiencing ‘the sensuality and sexuality of our immortal soul body’. |
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Yet whether in the form of ‘philosophy of mind’ or ‘phenomenology’, ‘neuroscience’ or ‘cognitive science’, ‘noetic science’ or ‘consciousness studies’, Western thought continues to ignore this non-intentional or field dimension of consciousness. Clinging to the notion that consciousness is the private property of individual ‘subjects’, it cannot conceive of subjectivity without a subject - a ‘universal consciousness’ or ‘absolute subjectivity’ of the sort that Indian thought understood as the ultimate source and essence of all individualised consciousness. It was because of the entrenched Western notion of ‘subjects’ of consciousness that Heidegger initially rejected the phenomenological language of ‘subjectivity’. Yet in his own later language we find terms such as ‘The Open’, ‘The Region’ or ‘The Illuminating Clearing’ (Lichtung), all of which, as Medard Boss first intuited, resonate with those of Indian thought - suggesting as they do a primordial ‘field’, ‘space’ or ‘light’ of awareness which is the pre-condition for any ‘intentional’ consciousness of things.
In Heidegger, Phenomenology
and Indian Thought, Peter Wilberg develops Boss’s intuition in
new depth and detail, showing the proximity of Heideggerian thinking
to the most profound phenomenological dimensions of Indian yogic and
tantric thought – dimensions of awareness unrecognised in
Husserlian phenomenology and obscured by the persistent
Eurocentrism of Western academic philosophy in general. |
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THE SCIENCE DELUSION Why God is Real and 'Science' is religious Myth New Yoga Publications 2008
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The Science Delusion offers a timely counterpart to the new wave of aggressive anti-religionism exemplified by Dawkins’ ‘scientific’ critique of The God Delusion. For in today’s world, blind and unthinking deference to ‘The Science’ has become as much a part of Western Culture as unquestioned deference to ‘The Church’ used to be. The aim of the Science Delusion is not to defend any specific religious doctrines but to show how what we call ‘science’ is as much based on irrational and dogmatically unquestioned beliefs – accepted entirely on faith – as the most ‘fundamental’ of religions. The word ‘science’ stems from the Latin scire – ‘to know’ – a verb whose root meaning is ‘to cut through’.
By ‘cutting through’ the common myths and delusions
that make up our idea of ‘science’, as well as those that science
itself is founded upon, philosopher Peter Wilberg presents a
‘heretical’ challenge to the quasi-religious authority that
the scientific world view wields in the Western media, largely in
the service of corporate interests. |
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EVENT HORIZON Terror, Tantra and the Ultimate Metaphysics of Awareness New Yoga Publications 2009
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Whether or not you believe in the existence of God, have you ever wondered at something even more mysterious - the miracle that any thing exists or is at all – including God? For no explanation of how things came to be, whether through a Supreme Being or Big Bang, diminishes in any way the mystery that they are - even that there ‘is’ a God or ‘was’ a Big Bang. Once we enter the region of this metaphysical mystery we have already slipped beyond the ultimate horizon of the space-time universe of physics. We have also transcended the question of God’s existence – for the mystery that addresses us is that of ‘is-ness’ or ‘being-ness’ as such – what Martin Heidegger called ‘The Question of Being’. Yet as soon as we allow ourselves to wonder at the mystery that anything is at all, we also open ourselves to an ultimate terror. This is the terror of conceiving - even for a moment - the possibility of things not being and of nothing ever having come to be at all. The wonder is like an ‘event horizon’ surrounding a horrifying ‘black hole’ - the black hole of ‘Non-Being’.
In this
book, philosopher Peter Wilberg draws on tantric concepts and
symbolism, occult symbols such as the ‘swastika’ and ‘black sun’,
the physics of ‘black holes’ and the hellish symbolism of the sci-fi
horror movie surrounding them - ‘Event Horizon’ - to introduce a new
metaphysics. This is not a metaphysics of ‘Being’ but of Pure
Awareness (‘Shiva’) and its innate Powers or ‘Shaktis’. For who can
deny that the most primordial reality of all is not the actuality
of our own being, or that of a universe ‘out there’ - but an
awareness of being and of that universe? Yet along with this
awareness of actuality goes an awareness of a quite different realm.
This is the realm of infinite potentialities that constitutes
the true essence of ‘Non-Being’ - and the eternal fount of all that
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Silya Muischneek, born in Switzerland in 1964, joined the cult of a seemingly ‘respectable’ Indian guru – Sri Chinmoy - in 1981, when she was only 16 years old. Driven by the noblest of spiritual values and ideals she devoted the next 17 years of her life to his ‘mission’. Doing so meant obeying the strict rules and demands of Chinmoy, for whom the obliteration of individuality was the most important spiritual discipline and every sign of individuality a form of disobedience that needed to be punished. When she left the cult in 1998, Silya was a broken woman whose sense of self and contact with life had been deeply damaged - leaving her physically, emotionally and spiritually sick. For ten years she found herself in deep pain and with no help or useful advice, medical or spiritual. Then, early in 2009, she came across the website and writings of a little-known European thinker, teacher and yogin – Acharya Peter Wilberg – finding that they not only gave deep insight into her still-present pains and spiritual questions, but also addressed these questions from a very different perspective than any other teacher. So instead of rejecting all further association with ‘spiritual’ teachers or ‘gurus’ she entered into correspondence with him.
Now
Silya Muischneek invites the reader to share, through this
book of her correspondence with Acharya, the Golden Key she
found through his teachings – ‘The New Yoga of Awareness’.
For these are teachings in which sacred Individuality and
unity with the Divine are not seen as opposites in any way.
They allowed her - after many difficult years of painful
confusion and suffering - to once again breathe free and
express her own freely individualising life in an all-new
way, thus coming to a new and true awakening of Self and
Awareness – ‘The Awakening of a Devi’. |
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