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Mark Desade - Psychic Warfare [1 eBook - PDF] (Parapsychology)

August 3, 2013, 7:40 pm
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This book is very difficult to locate. This is Book II in the Psychic Sexual Command Series dealing with Psychic Command methods. While the title states Warfare, you can use these methods for any psychic purpose that requires force. The methods here are easy to follow and learn. Few psychic training methods are this detailed giving the student exact instructions to follow.

This book have lots of useful "psychic attack" method using visualization and charkas.There are no other book on the market like this one. In this book you will learn how to use your psychic mind to attack your target by effecting their ether/astral body. MsSVig
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Adyashanti - Guided Meditations (March 2011) [Webrip - 4 MP3] (Meditation)

August 3, 2013, 8:01 pm
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In this 4-download set, recorded live during a silent retreat in March-April 2011, Adyashanti leads four guided meditations including “Finding Your Natural Rhythm,” “Sensing Facets of Awareness,” “Head, Heart, Gut, and Beyond,” and "Consciousness Beyond the Senses.” These meditations explore the subtleties of relaxing into pure awareness and resting as the natural stillness of our deepest nature. Each 40-minute meditation includes a guided meditation followed by a period of silence and a bell.

Quotes from This Download Set: “Notice that to stay conscious of awareness does not take effort but the relaxing of effort.” • “Human beings spend exorbitant amounts of time in consciousness of thinking until it becomes so habitual that we think that thoughts about things are more real than the things themselves." • “Remember there’s only the infinite—no matter how the body feels.”

Recorded during the Mt. Madonna retreat in Watsonville, CA, Mar. 27 - April 3, 2011. MsSVig
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Adyashanti - Guided Meditations (November 2010) [Webrip - 4 MP3] (Meditation)

August 3, 2013, 8:30 pm
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In this transformative 4-download set -- also available as a CD album -- Adyashanti leads four guided meditations including “Exploring What Is,” “Whole-Being Listening,” “The Rhythmic Anchor,” and “Awareness in the Head, Heart, and Gut.” Recorded live during a silent retreat in November 2010, these meditations explore the subtleties of relaxing into the vast freedom of pure awareness and coming to rest as the natural stillness of our deepest nature.

Quote from This Download Set: “Meditation is the art of effortlessness—the deeper you go, the less effort there is to be made until, finally, effort can be let go of altogether.”

Please Note: This download set is also available as a CD album with the same title in the online Bookstore.

Recorded during the Mt. Madonna retreat in Watsonville, CA, Nov. 15-18, 2010.
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S. Connolly - Honoring Death: The Arte of Daemonolatry Necromancy [1 Scan OCR - 1 PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

August 3, 2013, 9:34 pm
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This book covers the techniques and practice of Daemonolatry Necromancy covering everything from working with the Daemonic in tandem with the dead, speaking with the dead, dealing with loss and death, to divination techniques.

This is the first of four books published on Daemonolatry Necromancy. ("Honoring Death: The Arte of Daemonolatry Necromancy"; "Keys of Ocat: A Grimoire of Daemonolatry Nygromancye"; "Keys of Death: A Supplement to Keys of Ocat"; "Necromantic Sacraments: A Book of Ritual for Daemonolatry Necromancy, Necrosophy & Invocation" ) The author has indicated that these four books will likely be combined into one volume some time in the future, as she has done with many of her others.

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Tuomas Rasimus - Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence [Webrip - 1PDF] (Philosophy)

August 3, 2013, 10:42 pm
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This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.

From Brill Academic Publishers.

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John D. Turner - Sethian Gnosticism and The Platonic Tradition [Webrip - 1 PDF] (Philosophy)

August 3, 2013, 10:47 pm
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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition



Series:  
Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi Section «Études», 6

Authors:  Turner J.D.
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Year: 2002
ISBN: 978-90-429-1088-1
Pages: XX-844 p.
Price: 80 EURO



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No less than eleven of the fifty-three treatises of the Nag Hammadi Library fit the designation 'Sethian Gnostic'. They reveal the existence of a hitherto unrecognized religious competitor of early Christianity. With its own roots in second temple Judaism and in various first and second century sectarian baptismal movements, Sethian Gnosticism is now the earliest form of Gnosticism for which we possess a great deal of textual evidence. Like the Christian school of Valentinus (120-160 CE) and his followers - which it seems to antedate - Sethianism not only allied itself with the early Christian movement, but was also vitally indebted to the (Middle) Platonism of the first three centuries, even to the point that several of its theological treatises became the subject of scrutiny in Plotinus' third century Roman seminars. Although this book provides commentary on and analysis of the entire corpus of Sethian literature and goes on to develop a history of this movement and its literature and ritual practice in the first three centuries, its main focus is upon its striking engagement with the Platonic metaphysics of the second and third centuries, especially evident in four of its most distinctively Platonizing treatises, Zostrianos, Allogenes, The Three Steles of Seth, and Marsanes. These treatises have profound implications for understanding the origins of Neoplatonism, including its theory of dynamic emanationism, certain aspects of Plotinus' thought, and the Middle Platonic interpretation of Plato's dialogues, especially the Parmenides. Accordingly, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition is divided into five sections: an introductory discussion of the scholarly attempts to characterize the relation of Gnosticism and Platonism, followed by three main sections: Part One, an analysis and history of Sethian literature, mythology, and ritual practice in its pre-Christian, Christian, and post-Christian phases; Part Two, a survey of the development of Platonic metaphysics from Plato to Theodore of Asine; and Part Three, an extensive analysis of the four Platonizing Sethian treatises and their implication for the history and development of Middle and Neoplatonic metaphysics. The final section offers a concluding overview of the Sethian religion.
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Adyashanti - The Way of Liberation [1 Ebook - 1 PDF] (Buddhism )

August 4, 2013, 9:12 am
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Adyashanti - The Way of Liberation

A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment




This is the latest book from Adyashanti.

From the Preface:

This book is a clue left behind, a means of remembrance, and a guide to waking up from your imagined status as a person to what you really are. The teachings contained within this book are a condensed version of my core teachings. In order for the teaching to have any effect, you must apply it with utmost dedication. Be forewarned, applying these teachings may be damaging to your beliefs, disorienting to your mind, and distressing to your ego. From the perspective of waking up to reality these are good things to be cultivated. From the perspective of ego they are to be avoided at all costs. The choice is entirely yours.

From the Introduction:

Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life’s biggest questions, but actually the opposite is true. The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to answer your questions, but to question your answers. For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness. . .

The Way of Liberation is a call to action; it is something you do. It is a doing that will undo you absolutely. If you do not do the teaching, if you do not study and apply it fearlessly, it cannot effect any transformation. The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice. In this sense it is entirely practical. . .

We are no doubt at a very critical point in time. Our world hangs in the balance, and a precarious balance it is. Awakening to Reality is no longer a possibility; it is an imperative. We have sailed the ship of delusion about as far as she can carry us. We have run her ashore and now find ourselves shipwrecked on an increasingly desolate land. Our options have imploded. “Wake up or perish” is the spiritual call of our times.

Contents:

Chapter One - The Five Foundations
• Clarify Your Aspiration
• Unconditional Follow-Through
• Never Abdicate Your Authority
• Practice Absolute Sincerity
• Be a Good Steward of Your Life

Chapter Two - Three Orienting Ideas
• The Question of Being
• The False Self
• The Dream State

Chapter Three - The Core Practices
• Meditation
• Inquiry
• Contemplation

This book is available as a free download from here:
http://www.adyashanti.org/wayofliberation/
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James Lenman & Yonatan Shemmer - Constructivism in Practical Philosophy [1 ebook - PDF] (Philosophy)

August 4, 2013, 10:55 am
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English | ISBN: 0199609837 | 2012 | PDF | 261 pages | 6 MB

This volume presents twelve original papers on constructivism--some sympathetic, others critical--by a distinguished group of moral philosophers. "Kantian constructivism holds that moral objectivity is to be understood in terms of a suitably constructed social point of view that all can accept. Apart from the procedure of constructing the principles of justice, there are no moral facts." So wrote John Rawls in his highly influential 1980 Dewey lectures "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory.

Since then there has been much discussion of constructivist understandings, Kantian or otherwise, both of morality and of reason more generally. Such understandings typically seek to characterize the truth conditions of propositions in their target domain in maximally metaphysically unassuming ways, frequently in terms of the outcome of certain procedures or the passing of certain tests, procedures or tests that speak to the distinctively practical concerns of deliberating human agents living together in societies. But controversy abounds over the interpretation and the scope as well as the credibility of such constructivist ideas. The essays collected here reach to the heart of this contemporary philosophical debate, and offer a range of new approaches and perspectives.

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Constructivism is by now a prominent position in the field of philosophical theorizing about the sources and nature of normativity, apparently jockeying with more entrenched meta-ethical rivals such as expressivism and realism. Taking inspiration from Rawls' pioneering Dewey Lectures, "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Philosophy", constructivists seek to account for the objectivity and authority of (some region of) normativity by showing it to arise from, or be "constructed" within, the practical point of view of the agent or community of agents. Often, although not always, this takes the form of specifying a procedure, a device of representation, through which normative principles may be derived from the relevant conception of the person or community of persons.

The twelve authors of this helpful anthology represent a wide variety of positions on constructivism, ranging from believers of various stripes to perplexed and outright skeptics. The essays presuppose familiarity with the burgeoning literature on constructivism, so the volume will best serve those doing research or offering graduate courses. I will focus on three broad topics that cut across several of the essays: (1) the contrast between constructivism and expressivism, (2) the proper scope or ambition of a constructivist theory, and (3) the contest between Humean and Kantian constructivisms.

Let us call a theory "realist" if it accounts for normativity by appeal to a fixed and independent order of normative facts or reasons. Constructivism shares with expressivism an opposition to realism so understood. Expressivists tend to be motivated in this opposition by a desire to make normativity safe for a naturalistic understanding of the world. They set out to explain how normatively-ladenlanguage and thought could come to exhibit the logical and semantic properties it does without appeal to an independent order of moral facts. Some constructivists, by contrast, are immune to such naturalistic anxieties. In any case, their primary opposition to realism arises from the thought that realism cannot explain the practical authority of norms, and their goal is to explain how a normative order can be binding on us. As is so often the case in philosophy, constructivism and expressivism, setting out from different questions, in pursuit of different aims, traverse what is pretty clearly the same terrain with apparently conflicting results. Given their different starting points and aims, the difficult question then arises how the resulting positions are related.

As a whole, the anthology is something that anyone who works on constructivism or meta-ethics more generally will probably want to own. Some of the individual essays are worth the entire price of admission. On the other hand, the anthology is somewhat unfocused and highly specialized. One striking absence from its pages is the voice of Korsgaard. She is the direct or indirect target of several essays, and provides the inspiration and animus for the discussion throughout. This absence may not have been for lack of trying, but this reader felt it.
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Osho On Zen - Turning in Discourse #8 Complete (1988) [1DVD - VOB] (Rajneesh)

August 4, 2013, 1:54 pm
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This is 8th.   talk given in this series   on Zen Turning In  
from 12 august to  28 august 1988  in  Gautam the Buddha Hall


RYUSUI SAID:
EMPTINESS IS A NAME FOR NOTHINGNESS, A NAME FOR UNGRASPABILITY, A NAME FOR MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, THE WHOLE EARTH. IT IS ALSO CALLED THE REAL FORM. IN THE GREEN OF THE PINES, THE TWIST OF THE BRAMBLES, THERE IS NO GOING OR COMING.
IN THE RED OF THE FLOWERS AND THE WHITE OF THE SNOW, THERE IS NO BIRTH AND NO DEATH.

Zen is the ultimate religion in this Globe,  Lord Buddha proclaimed the doctrine of   Pratyasamatapuda i.e. dependent origination  thereafter the
origin of Zen arises.
Osho described in his  own words the significance of the Zen.

Author -  Osho discourse-  On Zen- Turning In
by Osho Foundation Pune India.
Topic -  On Zen-   Turning In discourse 8   1DVD VOB

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Srisa Chandra Vasu - A Catechism of Hindu Dharma [1 ebook - PDF] (Hinduism)

August 4, 2013, 6:09 pm
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PIBN: 1000002690
Category: Religion - Hinduism
Year: 1919
Language: English
Pages: 82
Words: 20627
Unique Words: 2884  (excluding 311 stopwords)

This book, primer of Hindu Dharma first published in 1919, nonetheless continues to be very much useful to beginners who want to learn more about Hinduism (Hindu Dharma).In this book, Srisa Chandra Vasu explains various important aspects of Hindu Dharma in the form of questions and answers. Unlike other books on Hinduism, all the answers are authenticated by quotes from Vedas, Smritis, Puranas and other Hindu scriptures.

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Kindly note that a portion of this book has schlokas (rhymes) from the vedas followed by their meaning in English)

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Melanie Fawer - Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga (2004) [2 DVD - 2 AVI] (Yoga / Tantra)

August 4, 2013, 7:50 pm
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Melanie Fawer - Mysore style Astanga Yoga

This 2 DVD set is comprised of the Instructional DVD and the Practice DVD.

The Instructional DVD simulates the experience of learning the Primary Series of Ashtanga yoga through “Mysore style” — the teaching method employed by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in India, how he taught it to Melanie and how Ashtanga yoga is traditionally handed down.

It gives you 28 sessions that progressively take you through the Primary series. – Posture modifications and instruction on how to approach a pose to move from one level to the next are offered on this DVD. Throughout you will find many helpful hints on form and technique.

The DVD introduces the fundamental and internal aspects of the practice: breath (ujjayi), movement (vinyasa), energy locks (bandha), and gaze (dristi).

The animated introduction includes beautiful footage of Mysore, India as well as a Mysore style class in Melanie’s New Orleans studio.

The Practice DVD simulates a LED Ashtanga class which ideally is meant to support your main Mysore style practice. With Melanie, you move straight through the Primary Series to her count. It’s a refresher of the correct vinyasa, the correlation of a specific breath to a specific movement such as moving into or out of a pose, the correct focal points, reminders to engage energy locks and most importantly to BREATHE!

All together this complete set is 4 1/2 hours of dynamic instruction and practice. The back cover features a picture of Melanie with her beloved teacher, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and a heartfelt recommendation from actor Willem Dafoe who Melanie taught when she lived in New York and started on his path of Ashtanga yoga.

Melanie Fawer is one of only a handful of female instructors in the United States certified by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, the only person qualified to certify teachers of Ashtanga Yoga. Melanie began Ashtanga with Jois in Mysore in 1994. Singularly from Jois, she was taught the entire Primary and Intermediate Series. Melanie returns yearly to Mysore to deepen her practice and is presently learning the Advanced B Series. She has a B.A. in psychology from New York University. She is an instructor and co-founder of The Yoga Room in New Orleans, Louisiana . MsSVig
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Adam McLean (Dionysus Freher) - Paradoxical Emblems [1 Scan - PDF] (Everything Else)

August 4, 2013, 8:04 pm
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Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks Series
This series of limited edition hand-bound books by Adam McLean were initially produced between 1979 and 1986. They were never sold through book dealers, but only by direct mail order. Consequently, these books became collectors items, often fetching high prices on the second-hand market. Only a few copies remain of some of the older titles in this series and a number are now entirely sold out. Since 1997 fourteen new titles have been issued with more in preparation.


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No. 16. The Paradoxical Emblems
of D. A. Freher.

D. A. Freher was one of the most important of those who worked and followed in the stream of mysticism initiated by Jacob Boehme. He had a gift for illustrating mystical ideas in pictorial form, and he applied this to Boehme's work in creating a series of 'Paradoxical Emblems', consisting of 153 emblematic diagrams each bearing a short line of text. Though prepared in the early 18th century for publication, regrettably they never appeared in print. These emblems are a coherent integrated system of interior exercises. Each of these focusses on a simple fundamental spiritual statement, of which Freher gives us the essence in a picture for us to meditate upon. The sequence of 153 emblems begins with Emblem 1 the point everywhere in empty space and the maxim of Hermes Trismegistus "The Center of Centres is everywhere, the Circumference is nowhere", and ends with emblem 152-3 "All things were, are and will Be, out of the One, through One and to One".

Limited edition of 250 copies, signed and numbered. 154 illustrations. 170 pages. 7 by 5 inches (180x126mm) - slightly smaller format from the other Magnum Opus books. Hardbound. 1983 first edition.

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S. Connolly - Demonolatry Rites [1 Scan OCR - PDF] (Satanism / Left-Hand Path)

August 5, 2013, 2:16 am
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A book of 20 never before published Demonolatry Rites chosen for their varied styles, beauty, heartfelt creation and effectiveness. Rituals included come from solitary practitioners, members of the priesthood, adepts, and sects from across the U.S.. Many rites included from S. Connolly's private grimoires. From devotional rites to Satan, to experimental rites utilizing pyramids, pillars, and the nine divinities instead of circles and the elementals - and rites to protect your car, this book leaves no stone un-turned. This is a raw, uncensored look at how real Demonolators practice Demonolatry in our modern era. Please note the revision removes one of the old rituals and introduces more rituals from S. Connolly's private grimoires.

Many of you downloaded the mobi version and wanted a decent PDF. This is a scan of my copy of the book.

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Shojun Bando - Ullambana Sutra (for Hungry Ghost month) [1 eBook - 1 PDF, 1 txt] (Buddhism )

August 5, 2013, 7:59 am
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Shojun Bando - Ullambana Sutra (for Hungry Ghost month) [1 eBook - 1 PDF, 1 txt]  This sutra is considered by some scholars to be apocryphal.

In this Ullambana Sutra, the Buddha instructs an arhat on how to obtain liberation for his mother who had been reborn into a Hell Realm, by making food offerings to the sangha on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

That date is honored yearly as the Hungry Ghost Festivals, which take place during this 7th lunar month (~ August 7 thru Sept 5, 2013).

Other similar names/rituals : Obon, Chung Yuan, YuLan Pen, Ullambana, Pravarana etc

The entire seventh lunar month is called Ghost Moon, because the doors to the Hell Realms are thrown open, and ghosts (pretas) are free to roam our land of the living.

Three times during this month, religious rituals are performed to counter the danger of suffering spirits and damned souls.

On the first day of Ghost Month every household provides generous offerings of food. Incense sticks, paper clothes, or paper spirit money are burned to send into the invisible dimension. At the entry is hung a paper decoration on which are written auspicious words. At the same time this hospitable attitude is being exhibited, people take good care not to expose themselves to danger.  

The Full Moon day of Ghost Month is called Ullambana, which means "deliverance from suffering," and refers to the salvation of anguished souls in Hell. This concept originates from the story in this Ullambara Sutra.

On this Full Moon day (~ Aug. 19-21, 2013), special rituals are performed to cope with the wandering ghosts.  Some rituals are motivated by the fear of harm from afflicted spirits, and others by the hope for ancestral blessings. Each culture has its own style of interacting with their ancestors during Ghost Month.  For example, a great feast is prepared where hungry ghosts will for once be able to eat their fill, and will also receive the merits that accrue from the ritual. To assist all souls to cross over to the shore of salvation, use altars, incense, candles, sacrifices, prayers, fasting, and/or chanting, and reading of this Ullambara Sutra. Some use lanterns and pennants to guide the spirits to the ritual places. Empty chairs are reserved for the dead. Homes, streets and graveyards are filled with paper models of worldly assets, especially paper banknotes, known as ‘Hell Money’. At night, these paper piles are burnt as offerings to the ancestors.  

Especially important is holding lineage rituals of charity or exorcism, so that evil and suffering ancestors may cross over to Salvation - potentially breaking the line of suffering that has carried forward into ourselves and our children.  Such ancestor ritual is also found in shamanistic practices: if a person suffers from an unusual or unwarranted affliction, and even common afflictions such as anger, depression, or health problems, the ancestors may be the cause.  

On the last day of this lunar month (~ Sept. 5, 2013), a final ritual is held as a last chance for the salvation of the ancestors, and unliberated spirits must return to their Hell Realms.  Now the gates are closed for another eleven moons / months.
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Claudia Azula Altucher - 21 Things to Know Before Starting an Ashtanga Yoga Practice [1 eBook - 1 PDF] (Yoga / Tantra)

August 5, 2013, 5:33 pm
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Claudia Azula Altucher - 21 Things to Know Before Starting an Ashtanga Yoga Practice

The daily practice of Ashtanga Yoga has made me physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy. I am very grateful. When I first started practicing I wished I had a handbook that answered basic questions, encouraged me on how to go about those first classes, guided me on whether to travel to Mysore or not, and answered questions I had. Recently someone who has been attracted to this style of yoga asked me if I could provide such a guide because he said: "it all felt very intimidating from the perspective of a beginner". I completely related. That is how this book was born. It is the book I wish I had back then. MsSVig
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Dharma Publishing - Ancient Tibet [1 eBook - 1 PDF] (Buddhism )

August 6, 2013, 7:24 am
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Dharma Publishing - Ancient Tibet

Research Materials from the Yeshe De Project


An account of Tibet from geologic times to the end of the era of Dharma Kings, based on historical records and modern scientific research, this work traces the geological development of the land, the early tribes and their unification under a series of powerful kings, and events surrounding the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet.

Ancient Tibet is invaluable for dispelling misinformation and introducing students to the prehistory and early records of this ancient land.

Includes many maps, line drawings, charts and timelines. This is the original publication from 1986.

Contents outline:

Part One: The Land
The land of Tibet has undergone dramatic changes over the eons of geologic time as the great Himalayas formed, the plateau rose to a platform three miles high, and the plant and animal life gradually evolved to their present forms.

Part Two: The People
The Tibetan plateau has been inhabited for thousands of years, but the identity of the earliest people is still a mystery. Tracing the history of the Tibetan tribes and their early kings, however, reveals the ancient roots of Tibetan culture.

Part Three: The Empire
By the seventh century great kings and generals began to expand Tibetan territory beyond the plateau. An advanced civilization developed as new influences mingled with the old culture, and Buddhism became the religion of the land.
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Jean-Luc Achard - The Tibetan Tradition of the Great Perfection [1 eBook - 1 PDF] (Buddhism )

August 6, 2013, 7:31 am
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Jean-Luc Archard - The Tibetan Tradition of the Great Perfection


This chapter comes from Shanker Thapa (ed.), "Northern Buddhism in History", Vajra Publications, Kathmandu, Nepal, p. 185-233.

The contents:

Introduction

I.   The Nature of the Great Perfection

II.  The History of the Buddhist tradition of rDzogs chen
  1. The revelation of rDzogs chen teachings in India
  2. The imperial period in Tibet
  3. From the 10th to the 14th century
  4. From the 15th to the 17th century
  5. From the 18th to the 20th century

III. Contemporary masters of rDzogs chen

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Adyashanti - The End of Your World [1 eBook - 1 PDF, 1 EPUB] (Buddhism )

August 6, 2013, 7:44 am
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Adyashanti - The End of Your World

Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment




This book is the edited result of a series of talks by Adyashanti which are also available in audio form here:
http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=4124 and http://theoccult.bz/details.php?id=40295

For those who enjoy a teaching in written form this is now offered in PDF and also EPUB formats.

The teachings that are included in "The End of Your World" were recorded in San Jose, California, over the course of three days in August, 2007. After Adya delivered this series of talks, Sounds True publisher, Tami Simon, had the chance to interview Adya and ask questions related to these teachings. The interview is transcribed in Chapter 13.

The book was used as a basis for an online Study Course in March 2012. It is also available in hardcover and softcover.

From Back Cover:

“Make no mistake about it — enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”
~~ ADYASHANTI from The End of Your World

“This is a wise and beautiful book — offering all who read refreshing spiritual clarity and a free heart.”
~~ JACK KORNFIELD, author of A Path with Heart

“A powerful and profoundly affecting book by one of the premier spiritual teachers of our time. Departing from so much in modern new age spirituality, Adyashanti affirms that we make the journey to realization not by separating from the relative reality of our everyday lives, but precisely by developing an attitude of complete acceptance and openness toward all situations and emotions, and all the people we encounter.”
~~ REGINALD A. RAY, author of Touching Enlightenment

Chapter Names:

•  1   Exploring Life After Awakening
•  2   Authentic Awakening - And the Disorientation That Can Follow
•  3   “I Got It, I Lost It”
•  4   We Come to Nirvana by Way of Samsara
•  5   Coming Completely Out of Hiding
•  6   Common Delusions, Traps and Points of Fixation
•  7   Life Itself Holds Up a Mirror for Our Awakening
•  8   The Energetic Component of Awakening
•  9   When Awakening Penetrates the Mind, Heart and Gut
• 10  Effort or Grace?
• 11  The Natural State
• 12  The Story of the Wedding
• 13  An Interview with Adyashanti by Tami Simon of Sounds True
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Judit Torzsok - Yogini and goddess possession in early saiva tantras [1 article - 1 PDF] (Hinduism)

August 6, 2013, 12:27 pm
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Although possession in general and possession by yoginis in
particular is a subject that has often been treated in the
secondary literature, the testimony of the earliest saiva sources
of the yogini cult have never been analyzed in detail. This is due
to two main reasons: on the one hand, many of these sources
are still available only in manuscript form, on the other, studies
dealing with these manuscripts concentrated on other issues.
In this paper, therefore, I intend to present some of the earliest
tantric sources teaching the cult of yoginis, which, at the same
time, also deal with deity or yogini possession. I shall thus
attempt to show in what forms and contexts yogini and goddess
possession appears in the tantric sources and how possession
comes to be integrated into the cult of yoginis.

Abstract:
This paper examines the phenomenon of possession said to be caused by female spirits called yoginis, in early śaiva Tantras (mainly of the 7th-8th centuries CE). It shows that the earliest śākta Tantras, in particular the Siddhayogeśvarīmata, already describe this phenomenon in a śākta context. The paper also considers the testimony of the Brahmayāmala, another early śākta Tantra, which, however, speaks of possession by Bhairava and not by female spirits in most cases. It is suggested in the conclusion that possession as a ritual act was perhaps borrowed from the pre-tantrci sect of the Kāpālikas (skull-bearers). MsSVig
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Milan Gligorijevic - Hudu magija, teorija i praksa (Serbian) [1 eBook - PDF] (Everything Else)

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Very rare manuscriot about hoodoo. based mostly on Michale Bertiaux's writtngs and written by Milan Gligorijevic-Gaon. Gaon was close associate of Zivorad Mihajlovic - Slavinski.This manuscript include both practial and theoretical part, not exactly hoodoo to be honest. Bertiaux mix hoodoo and voodoo and Gaon follow this system. Published in 1980. The text is in Serbian. MsSVig
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