"An analysis of the discourse on Moses and Egypt brings to light a phase in the reception of ancient Egypt which has up to now remained...

"In the Egyptian pantheon, Thoth enjoyed a special illustriousness.  He was shown as an ibis-headed man or as a baboon (cf.  The Egyptian...

"Pure essential oils became available  through the invention of distillation.  In ancient times, however, our forefathers simply burned...

"...In both the ancient and modern world, the tantric spiritual path, although the most powerful meditative system, always remains hidden...

..."It is very clear that Egyptian culture and spiritual life were firmly based in tantra.  The Egyptains conceived of the universe as...

"...Various western spiritual institutions, including the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons, trace their origins to Egypt and record that...

Swami Satyananda Saraswati   'Sure Ways to Self-Realization' "Although the Nile Valley civilization flourished in the years from 6,000 to...

Notwithstanding that I may or may not be on firm footing while writing about any subject,  I can only acknowledge that this one is...

While acknowledging glaring exceptions among individual women, the Indian subcontin- ent - Pakistan, Afghanistan, India - seems to be the...

('Sri Aurobindo on the Tantra') "All sciences, O Goddess, are different parts of thee. The sense is that wherever the feminine principle...

Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss) is a global spiritual organization, founded in 1955, with a mission of self-realization/individual...

The religions that practice fasting encompass the vast majority of people on the planet: Ba'hais, Buddhists, Christians, Essenes,Hindus,...

Six months on "The Self' (to the day)!! Violet wants to read about food. Ok, that's next...

The dhyanas and samapattis share similar traits to the various stages of samadhi of clas- sical yoga.  Buddhists themselves acknowledge...

In order to attain to the unconditioned state, to extinguish the suffering, illusory life in favor of the one that leads to nirvana,...

The soul/spirit (purusha), for Samkhya and yoga, while pure and intangible, nevertheless needs association with an instrument created by...

In Samkhya and yoga the world is real, not illusory as in Vedanta.  Nevertheless, the existence of the cosmos is owed to the ignorance of...

Classical yoga begins where Samkhya ends.  Patanjali took over the Samkhya philosophy almost totally, but he did not believe that...

Patanjali's Sutras refer to the pain (klesas) produced by the psychomental states (citta- vrtti).  In fact, human experience in its...

Among the Non-Vedantic orthodox systems referred to previously, Samkhya and Yoga, the problem of the self has come up as well.  The oral...