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Mystic doubt: In search of pure consciousness
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.AbstractTranscendental Meditation (TM) holds that the essence of reality is “pure consciousness.” This piece contrasts three interpretations of their meditative trance: (i) TM doctrine, and (ii) scientific physicalism, (iii) with my own meditative experience.
Olof Ohlson
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Asian StudiesThis article explores the concept of “nothingness” in the Advaita Vedānta and Madhyamaka traditions of Indian Buddhism, analysing their convergences, divergences, and broader implications within Indian philosophical traditions.
Pankaj Vaishnav
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The Philosophical Contribution of Vedānta Deśika to the Development of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedanta
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2018 Veṅkaṭanātha, also known as Vedānta Deśika, is one of the most significant figures of Indian philosophy of the 13th-14th centuries. His contribution to viśiṣṭādvaita-vedānta allowed to establish it finally as a philosophical system.
N A Safina
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On Swami Vivekananda and Caste Prejudice: Ethical Implications of the Experience of Non-Duality
ReligionsThe well-known modern Hindu reformer and pioneer of Vedānta in the West, Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), based his ethical vision on mysticism: specifically, on the direct experience of non-duality and the ultimate unity and organic interconnectedness of ...
Jeffery D. Long
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Philosophies of being in India I: Pluralism, nihilism, and monism
Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2024.Abstract Is Being a mere sum of separate things variously re‐combined over time? Or is it not there at all, arising from nothing more than the projection of a fevered metaphysical imagination? Or might it be the intrawoven phenomenon of all we experience, grounded in a single underlying all‐determining nature? This is the first of a pair of articles on
Jessica Michelle Frazier
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Yamunacarya’s Stotra-ranta: poetry vis-à-vis philosophy
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2014 The paper deals with the religious texts of the early Vishishta-Advaita-Vedanta School, particularly Yamunacarya’s hymns “Stotra-ratna”.
R V Pskhu
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A Psychospiritual Exploration of the Transpersonal Self as the Ground of Healing
Religions, 2021 This paper focuses on the transpersonal Self as the psychological and spiritual healing factor in psychotherapy and addiction recovery, and illustrates the importance of bringing awareness of the Self and the energy of wholeness into focus with clients ...
Monique M. Verrier
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Centering and counselor empathy: Examining the moderating effects of nondual awareness
Journal of Counseling &Development, Volume 102, Issue 4, Page 445-455, October 2024.Abstract Centering is a contemplative practice derived from centering prayer. In the context of counseling, our study explores centering as an intervention to enhance counselors’ empathy. Additionally, we investigate the moderating influence of nonduality, particularly bliss, on the changes in empathy over time.
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 5-20, January 2024.Abstract Metaphysics concerns the whole of reality, including the human spiritual response to reality. Pre‐reflectively we do not divide these two, but reality includes the moment of reflection. For this reason, metaphysics and poetry are identical, and yet also distinguished. As distinguished, metaphysics must treat all as found, including the poetic,
C.J.C. Pickstock
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2014 The paper deals with the concept of Brahman in the early Vishishta-Advaita-Vedanta School, particularly in Yamunacarya’s treatise “Ishvarasiddhi”, the main passages of which are lost.
R V Pskhu
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