Contents: Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
	Introduction by Eli Franco	1
	Part I: Yogic Perception in the South Asian and Tibetan Traditions
	Larry McCrea
	"Just Like Us, Just Like Now": The Tactical Implications of the Mimamsa Rejection of Yogic Perception	55
.	John Taber
	Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament	71
	Eli Franco
	Meditation and Metaphysics: On their Mutual Relationship in South Asian Buddhism	93
	Anne MacDonald
	Knowing Nothing: Candrakirti and Yogic Perceptions	133
	Vincent Eltschinger
	On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins	169
	Dorji Wangchuk
	A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism	215
	Oma Almogi
	The Materiality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources	241
	Philipp Andre Maas
	The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Patanjala Yogasastra	263
	Marcus Schmucker
	Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Visistadvaita Vedanta	283
	Marion Rastelli
	Perceiving God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Visnuitic Tradition of Pancaratra	299
	Part II: Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
	Karl Baier
	Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe	321
	Diana Riboli
	Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia	347
	Dagmar Eigner
	Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation	369
	John R. Baker
	Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness: Insights from the Biocultural Perspective	389
	Shulamith Kreitler
	Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System	407
	Renaud van Quekelberghe
	Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: The Revival of Indian Meditative Traditions within Modern Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medicine	435
	Michael DelMonte
	Empty Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace	449
	Contributors	481