Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be

Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be
Author :
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781780991429
ISBN-13 : 1780991428
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up To Be by : Robert K. c. Forman

What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place over a long time? It’s happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That’s why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people looking for a sane and healthy spiritual pathway in our increasingly confusing world. Traditional spiritual models are giving seekers a wrong and frustrating impression about spiritual enlightenment. By exploring his own 39 year experience of spiritual enlightenment, Dr. Forman offers a remedy to folks who are: Convinced they don’t have the right stuff to achieve enlightenment in this lifetime: Disillusioned by spiritual teachers who don’t live up to their lofty self-portraits: Worried that choosing a spiritual life means leaving their everyday life behind: Hungry for a different way to be, but unable to express it. Through metaphor, humor, vulnerability and achingly beautiful prose, Dr. Forman’s book offers newfound hope to spiritual seekers everywhere.

Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be

Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be
Author :
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages : 233
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781846946745
ISBN-13 : 1846946743
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Enlightenment Ain't What It's Cracked Up to Be by : Robert K. C. Forman

What if you spent years of your life seeking spiritual enlightenment, but were looking in the wrong place over a long time? It’s happening right now to millions of seekers around the world. That’s why Dr. Robert Forman has written his revolutionary book. Told in often poetic prose, it offers new direction for people looking for a sane and healthy spiritual pathway in our increasingly confusing world. Traditional spiritual models are giving seekers a wrong and frustrating impression about spiritual enlightenment. By exploring his own 39 year experience of spiritual enlightenment, Dr. Forman offers a remedy to folks who are: Convinced they don’t have the right stuff to achieve enlightenment in this lifetime: Disillusioned by spiritual teachers who don’t live up to their lofty self-portraits: Worried that choosing a spiritual life means leaving their everyday life behind: Hungry for a different way to be, but unable to express it. Through metaphor, humor, vulnerability and achingly beautiful prose, Dr. Forman’s book offers newfound hope to spiritual seekers everywhere.

Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion

Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion
Author :
Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 299
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783031180132
ISBN-13 : 3031180135
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Mysticism, Ineffability and Silence in Philosophy of Religion by : Laura E. Weed

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it. This anthology features contributions that point out that contemporary studies of consciousness, sociology, hermeneutics, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields, are revealing that there is much more to be said for the inner life of a human’s consciousness than reductionists and behaviorists will allow. This book is one of very few that primarily takes the stance of academic practitioners, explaining their own experience, rather than that of academics trying to explain the phenomena away, as really politics, or sociology, or delusion, or psychological pathology, or literary flights of fancy, or an aberration of any of the other academic fields. Most of the authors in this volume embrace the task of explaining and analyzing religious experience, mysticism, and the healing power of silence and presence, using the resources of all of the academic disciplines, as appropriate. The essays contained analyze religious, and non-religious, mystical and profoundly personal experiences across several world religions, and in areas such as art and music, as well as in solving personal crises such as family disruption and patriarchal oppression. The authors address the subject matter through analyses of the frequent and destructive failures of language, or just noise, to capture or express the nuances of the inner life of a person. It is this very ineffability of self that renders the spiritual, emotional and interior life of individuals beyond cognition and perception, of the straightforward sorts embraced by most cognitive disciplines. The contributors come from a variety of cross-disciplinary fields to bring forth the possibilities for an intuitive and creative, rich and growing inner life for a human. This text appeals to students, researchers, and practitioners.

Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness

Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness
Author :
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 228
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781438403021
ISBN-13 : 143840302X
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness by : Robert K. C. Forman

In an exploration of mystical texts from ancient India and China to medieval Europe and modern day America, Robert K. C. Forman, one of the leading voices in the study of mystical experiences, argues that the various levels of mysticism may not be shaped by culture, language, and background knowledge, but rather are a direct encounter with our very conscious core itself. Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness focuses on first-hand accounts of two distinct types of mystical experiences. Through examination of texts, recorded interviews, and courageous autobiographical experiences, the author describes not only the well-known "pure consciousness event" but also a new, hitherto uncharted "dualistic mystical state." He provides a thorough and readable depiction of just what mysticism feels like. These accounts, and the experiences to which they give voice, arise from the heart of living practices and have substance and detail far beyond virtually any others in the literature. The book also reexamines the philosophical issues that swirl around mysticism. In addition to examining modern day constructivist views, Forman argues that the doctrines of Kant, Husserl, and Brentano cannot be applied to mysticism. Instead he offers new philosophical insights, based on the work of Chinese philosopher of mind Paramartha. The book concludes with an examination of mind and consciousness, which shows that mysticism has a great deal to tell us about human experience and the nature of human knowledge far beyond mysticism itself.

The American Lawyer

The American Lawyer
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 584
Release :
ISBN-10 : UCAL:C3211144
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Lawyer by :

My Enlightenment Delusion

My Enlightenment Delusion
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 217
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1520898452
ISBN-13 : 9781520898452
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis My Enlightenment Delusion by : Matt Landing

Matt Landing recounts the ups and downs as a Transcendental Meditation teacher. After a 1990 kundalini crisis, he thought he was enlightened, but he later painfully became aware that it was a grandiose delusion. Matt reflects on kundalini, mania, epileptic religiosity, psychedelic experience, and the experiences of people who claim enlightenment. Matt provides an entertaining account of his life with a look behind the scenes of the TM organization, advanced training courses, and the TM-Sidhis course. The book also contains a thought-provoking analysis of kundalini, enlightenment, celibacy, gurus, kriyas, speaking in tongues, Pure Awareness, super radiance, and reincarnation. Matt explains why the similarities between grandiose delusions, psychotic mania, and kundalini crises are more than a coincidence. He provides recommendations for those who are in the midst of a kundalini crisis. Matt explains how spiritual aspirants become ungrounded and offers suggestions on how to become grounded. He provides evidence against the existence of enlightenment. He looks at some of the unflattering characteristics of gurus and labels them as "guru maniacs". Beginning in 1972 while reading books in college, Matt acquired a desire to reach enlightenment. He then learned TM, went on numerous TM residence courses, practiced the TM-Sidhis program, ate a predominately raw food diet, fasted, detoxed his body, and used self muscle testing. His spiritual practice took 3 hours per day and included asanas, pranayama, and meditation. Matt delivers a powerful punch against enlightenment, gurus, spiritual movements, and religions. Matt strikes at the concepts of karma, kundalini, shaktipat, faith, support of nature, devotion to a guru, Pure Awareness, and right action. Version 2.00 of My Enlightenment Delusion is a 60,000-word book that was completed in December 2017 and contains the original material in Version 1.00 plus 7 additional chapters. Chapter 13 contains a comparison of epileptic religiosity with kundalini crises and mania. Chapter 21 juxtaposes spiritual experiences, psychedelic experiences, mania, near death experiences, and G-force induced loss of consciousness. Chapter 22 discusses Robert Forman's book Enlightenment Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be and the unrealistic, rosy picture that enlightenment brings an end to all suffering. Chapter 23 is devoted to looking at the disquieting aspects in the lives of Suzanne Segal, Ramana Maharshi, and Gopi Krishna who are all departed but continue to inspire many spiritual seekers. Chapter 24 thoroughly describes the enlightenment experiences of 22 individuals and then offers a critique of their experience.

Our Paper

Our Paper
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 648
Release :
ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433003028242
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Paper by :

Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart
Author :
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0826407730
ISBN-13 : 9780826407733
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Meister Eckhart by : Robert K. C. Forman

The author places Eckhart in his historical context and analyzes the stages of his mystical expression. Forman also looks at Eckhart's teachings for their practical implications for theological investigation.

The Problem of Pure Consciousness

The Problem of Pure Consciousness
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780195355116
ISBN-13 : 0195355113
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Problem of Pure Consciousness by : Robert K. C. Forman

Are mystical experiences formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as ""constructivists"" maintain, or do mystics sometimes transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ throughout the various religious traditions, as""pluralists"" contend, or are they somehow ecumenical? The contributors to this collection scrutinize a common mystical experience, the ""pure consciousness event""--The experience of being awake but devoid of intentional content--in order to answer these questions. Through the use of historical Hindu, Buddhist,

Bootycandy / Barbecue (TCG Edition)

Bootycandy / Barbecue (TCG Edition)
Author :
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages : 274
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781559364959
ISBN-13 : 1559364955
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Bootycandy / Barbecue (TCG Edition) by : Robert O'Hara

An outrageously funny new play that explores language, sexuality and identity.