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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
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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 |
SYNOPSIS What would it be like to know that you are indeed immortal, that your physical body is but the outward form taken by your own eternal inner form or soul body? What would it be like to dissolve the bodily boundaries that seem to separate you from the souls of others, learning to feel your soul in their body and their soul in yours? What would it be like to see and feel your partner as the embodiment of a god or goddess, and to experience the bliss of ‘soul body sex’ – an intensely sensual intimacy and intercourse with their divine soul body? The New Yoga is a yoga of the soul body – that body with which we can intimately sense, feel and touch others - independently of physical contact. The New Yoga is also ‘Tantra Reborn’, giving rebirth to the tantric tradition known as Kashmir Shaivism through a wholly new understanding of its sexual symbolism and of ‘tantric sex’ - seen not merely as a heightening or spiritual elevation of bodily sex, but as an expression of the sublime sensuality and divine sexuality of the soul and its body. ‘Tantra Reborn’ explains in detail the anatomy, nature and powers of the soul body, its relation to gender and sexuality, to tantric initiation and to the traditional tantric symbolism of ‘Shiva-Shakti’ and ‘Kundalini’. It also offers a practical guide to experiencing the bliss of soul body intercourse through new and original forms of tantric pair and partner meditation. |
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SYNOPSIS 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 |
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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