Queer thinking, practice, art, and devotion has always been a part of the dharmic paths, even while queer individuals have often been marginalized. Today, queer spiritual …
What is spiritual citizenship? In the recent conference “Spiritual Citizenship,” hosted by Embodied Philosophy in the Summer of 2021, one…
Embodied attunement is the ability to experience in our bodies emotions in the bodies of others. The article explores how…
Work with the body during an emotional experience has to able to undo the body’s defenses against emotions and make them easier to access for processing. It also has to be able to manage the extreme stress and dysregulation in the body so that the emotional experience is more bearable. At the same time, it has to ensure that the body is not excessively regulated so that the very emotional experience one is working with is not destroyed.
How did you begin your search for peace? I began mine with political activism in the sixties. My college friends…
Wise-Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness is a recent winner of the 2019 Montaigne Medal Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, a 2018 National Indie Excellence Award in the Spirituality category, a finalist for the 2018 Body/Mind/Spirit Book of the Year by Foreword Indies, and the 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Bhakti is love or devotion to a supreme deity. It is a form of religious practice, a state of mind, and the goal of practice. Through visualization, narrative, chanting, and pūjā, bhakti taps into raw emotion and desire.
It is important to note the societal context in which these teachings on yoga took place. Time and circumstance played a significant role in the first six chapters of Kṛṣṇa’s exposition on yoga.