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Pratipakṣa Bhāvana: Cultivating the Opposite as a Celebration of Our Humanity

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The Oxford Dictionary defines passion as a strong and barely controllable emotion. Many so-called positive emotions fit that bill. So what happens if we experiment with touching sorrow in times when we feel the most euphoric of highs? Cultivating the opposite in all situations, even in times of elation, prepares us for the inevitability that we will at some point feel the lowest of lows. 

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Reflections on an African Diasporic Spiritual Citizenship

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Yoga & Western Esotericism with Anya Foxen (#148)

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The Tao of Now with Diane Dreher (#147)

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The Overarching Theme of the Bhagavad-gītā

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Just as each feature of cosmic order has an essential nature, cosmic order itself has an essential nature. Bringing ourselves into harmony with the essential nature of cosmic order is the way by which we can live peacefully in the world. Conversely, dissonant action relative the essential nature of cosmic order brings about chaos and destruction.

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Gavin Flood on Hindu Monotheism & the 12 Kalis (#146: Radical Theology Series)

Gavin Flood is the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and author of the recent books Religion and the Philosophy of Life; Hindu Monotheism; and The Truth Within, a History of Inwardness in Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

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What is it Like to Be a Human?

In this article, I’ll use somatics, radical embodied cognition, ecological psychology, and my personal practice of nondual animism to root out the unexamined use of dualistic philosophical paradigms including Cartesian dualism, traditional cognitive science, and the ideas that underpin popular interpretations of the simulation argument.

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Uncovering Nature from Within

We live the experience of divine ecology because we are nature. We are of the earth and know ourselves through…

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