In this talk, Judith will discuss the importance of avoiding spiritual bypassing in order for spiritual realization to be a lasting transformation, rather than just a peak experience. She will teach the main Realization Process practices for uncovering fundamental consciousness, the spiritual ground of our individual being and the basis of our experience of oneness with everything and everyone around us. In this approach, spiritual realization brings us into deeper contact with ourselves. It is the basis of authenticity, of wholeness, and so it both requires and facilitates the resolution of the psychologically-based limitations that obstruct our contact with ourselves.
This is not a lecture about individual women and their isolated successes. Rather this talk aims to acknowledge the collective wisdom rising from a (mostly) female-driven phenomenon, which I will refer to as Modern Globalised Yoga, a term coined by Dr Elizabeth de Michelis.
Historical research...
Jason will discuss the research he is currently doing on Yoga, which involves visiting libraries in various countries to view manuscripts of Yoga texts. He’ll discuss some of the important Haṭha- and Rājayoga texts he’s working on, in particular, their content, who wrote them and their audience. ...
Glimpses of what evolves into Yoga can be gleaned from early sources: the loving attention paid to animals and the seated seemingly meditative figures in the seals of the Indus Valley (ca. 3000 B.C.E.) as well as the invocation of tapas (purifying heat) in the Vedas (ca. 1500 B.C.E.). The naming ...
