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